Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.

This excerpt from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, highlights student reflection as a tool for assessing the learning of English-language learners. However, we’ve found these ...

Books have always played a powerful role in shaping human thought and progress. Long before the digital age introduced instant information and constant online updates, books served as one of the most ...

Student reflection can be THE thing to really change the way we understand student learning. As we empower students to share their ideas about how and what they have taken away from different learning ...

Background: K–12 classrooms are experiencing a massive investment in computing technology. As we have reported in the blog post before, 50 percent of America’s classrooms appear to be at 1-to-1 with ...

Keep your "nose to the grindstone" is the advice we often give as an essential ingredient of learning difficult tasks. An old joke captures the problem with the old bromide for success, "Keep your eye ...

It is no longer fiction, nor tales by moonlight, that digital technology has undoubtedly turned the world into a global village, and consequently affected our reading culture. Many now find hard ...