Larry, a humanities teacher at Roslyn High School, is in the 5th year of his 1:1 iPad program and an Apple Distinguished Educator. While his technology has been beneficial, he finds that his work in the Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute to have been the most valuable experience for making Shakespeare and literature more meaningful for […]
This post first appeared on Edutopia. Regularly, teachers tell me that they don’t feel as though they have time for project-based learning (PBL). While they like the idea in theory, they can’t see a way to realistically “fit it in” with their curriculum given constraints of time, testing, standards, etc. A regular response to the […]
You can also read this post on Jen’s blog. The humanities teacher in me could not resist attending “Hacking the Humanities” with Lawrence Reiff. He starts out discussing the importance of the humanities – it’s not about STEM, it’s about STEAM! Teaching the humanities is about collaboration – perhaps the most important skill of the 21st […]
