8 Takeaways From Hacking Assessment

Posted onMarch 24, 2016April 27, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

8 Takeaways From Hacking Assessment By Melissa Pilakowski Starr Sackstein’s Hacking Assessment not only revolutionizes education, but it gives step-by-step instructions on how to do it. That’s what makes this book so powerful. Not only Read More …

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Hacking Class Participation: 5 Ways to Engage Every Single Student

Posted onMarch 22, 2016April 24, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

Class participation is critical to successful learning. Sadly, we often go at it the wrong way. When we’re engaged in something, we do better at it. That’s as true of learning as it is anything else: Read More …

Hacking Standardization Live #HackLearning Twitter Chat

Posted onMarch 20, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

Author Mike Fisher moderates this lively discussion about how to make learning amazing, even in a standardized world. [View the story “#HackLearning Live chat March 20” on Storify]

Hacking Classroom Management and Building a Learning Community

Posted onMarch 20, 2016March 29, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

In this episode of the Hack Learning Podcast, we discuss 5 classroom management tips that will work at any school. Learn a few simple ways to hack classroom management in the podcast above and the content below, Read More …

Hacking the Worksheet - How to Engage Students at All Levels

Posted onMarch 17, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

In this episode, we enlist the help of seven experienced educators, who share various ways teachers can engage students in learning, without using the traditional worksheet. These education hackers teach at all Read More …

6 Things to Consider Before Writing

Posted onMarch 15, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorAngela StockmanLeave a comment

It’s 5:15 am on a Tuesday morning, and my day is beginning in its usual fashion-quietly. Everyone else is still asleep. I relish this part of my day. I’m tempted to open my email inbox Read More …

Hacking Literacy With Book Nooks

Posted onMarch 14, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

With more than 120 million illiterate children, it’s time to put books in kids’ hands. In this episode of the Hack Learning Podcast, Mark Barnes shares how one school built a Read More …

5 Ways to Get 100 Percent Participation in Every Class

Posted onMarch 13, 2016April 27, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

The Problem-all’s quiet The whole-class discussion scares the bejesus out of many teachers, especially newbies. Why? Simple, many students won’t participate. Is it even realistic to expect 100 percent of your students to join in-class Read More …

Hacking Connected Education

Posted onMarch 11, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

Two popular connected educators discuss the problem of the unconnected educator and share some Right-Now strategies for helping them plug in to incredible professional development on Twitter. This is Hacking Connected Read More …

Hacking the Test Revisited

Posted onMarch 10, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

Hacking the Test (Part 1) explains how a test is NOT assessment and how teachers can shift the conversation about learning away from the test. In this Hack Learning podcast episode, Read More …

Hacking Digital Citizenship

Posted onMarch 10, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

A simple tweeted picture ignited an ongoing conversation about education technology and its place in schools. Should we ban mobile devices in classrooms? Should we strengthen network filters? Or should we teach kids boundaries? Hack Read More …

The One Letter Hack

Posted onMarch 10, 2016March 21, 2016AuthorHack Learning TeamLeave a comment

What if you could change teaching and learning by taking one word or phrase and changing it? In Hacking the Common Core, author/expert Mike Fisher reimagines teaching the Common Core, with his one-letter hack. Fisher replaces Read More …