by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
An essential question is an incredibly powerful tool for discovery learning and critical thinking skill development. Essential and herding questions are also one of the 10 shifts of practice of future-focused learning. If you consider what learning actually is, it is... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
For years now we’ve worked hard to bring you the best teacher resources we can. This is a tough profession undergoing constant change, and you want tools and materials you can rely on to help you bring the best learning possible to your students. We’ve... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
Everywhere we go in the world, we ask teachers what they feel are the most important skills for modern learners. Teachers, school leaders, and educators of all kinds have many shared goals. However, no matter where they hail from, one of the most common among them is... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
If you were to ask, most teachers would agree improving reading comprehension is about teaching students how to think while reading. Granted, reading comprehension likely isn’t one of the courses that you’re teaching. That said, perhaps it should be a subcourse within... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
The following is adapted from the book Growing Global Digital Citizens (Crockett & Churches, 2017). It features a discussion of Primary School digital citizenship guidelines, along with notes on why each one is important to consider. Since the Global Digital... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
Shifts of practice are something vital to innovative modern learning that we’ve talked about in our recent keynotes all over the world. Innovation is a natural response to change, as many educators believe. Our recommendations for the following 10 shifts of... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
The Common Core Standards are a set of high-quality academic standards that outline what a student should know at the end of each grade level in English/Language Arts and mathematics. The goal is to raise student achievement across in every school district across all... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
For some students, writing is a hard task to get to grips with. After all, creating a convincing argument on paper is something of an art. As a teacher, though, you can take advantage of many of the online resources available. They’ll walk your student though... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
via Edudemic If you’re a brave soul attempting to teach with technology, then you know that it can be a challenging and downright difficult task. Students are resistant to change. Teachers are too. Administrators are, well, too. Everyone seems to be unsure about how... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
Via Huffington Post “Are you excited about all the writing you’ll do this summer?” I asked my exuberant Inktopia Kids summer writing campers. It was the last day of a fun-filled, early summer week of word games, character creation and poetry making....