Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

This might be explained by educators’ long-term love-hate relationship with textbooks, which have routinely been stacked in the corner whenever misaligned with the teacher’s preferred pedagogy. Attendees’ responses around professional growth tools encourage this narrative.

Textbooks 137

Textbooks Mental Models Coaching Communication 137

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century.

Skills 167

Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations.

Math 52

Math Mental Models Textbooks Study 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It Textbook publishers, for instance, have been making new products that they don’t call textbooks, and free-textbook advocates call what they make “open educational resources.”

Textbooks 154

Textbooks Mental Models Lecturing English 154