Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner

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Providing easy-to-use alternatives to the stand and deliver approach to teaching that causes so many students to tune out–or even drop out–Total Participation Techniques presents dozens of ways to engage K 12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding.

Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day

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It started with a simple observation: students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don’t need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, authors Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom.

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

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In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators.

The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning

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This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media. Easy-to-implement ideas, essential tools, and real-life vignettes help teachers learn to: Find and choose the best social media tools, products, and communities. Start and grow a collaborative, high-quality PLN using Twitter, blogging, LinkedIn, and more.

The Way They Learn

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Draw out the best in your children—by understanding the way they learn. If you’re frustrated that your child isn’t learning the way you did, chances are they are too! In this practical resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias explains that understanding how you both learn can make all the difference.

Awesome free education resources for teachers and students

1. GoConqr

If we’re starting off with the most awesome education resource, then we’ve got to put our own offering top of the list – but then we’re somewhat biased! Of course there are plenty of educational resources out there that offer similar things to GoConqr: some let you can create learning resources such as Mind Maps or Quizzes. Some will let you find great content. But what sets GoConqr apart is that you it brings creativity, discovery and collaboration together on a single platform (that’s available as an app too), for free. Click here to sign up and start creating now.

Expert Note-taking Advice

A big part of our exploration into study notes strategies involved gathering advice from the people who know what works best. We talked to a variety of people in education including teachers, consultants and tech specialists to gain an insight into their expertise so you can create study notes that work for you.

Read a summary of the main points below:

1. Don’t Take Down Every Piece of Information: Most experts we talked to reiterated this piece of advice so it’s definitely valuable to know. Focusing on recording your class notes means that you’re not fully listening and absorbing new information. The more you engage in note-taking, the more you will understand how to take ‘bites’ of information in your own words without breaking your wrist!