At the end of the original “Back to the Future” movie, Doc sets the clock in the DeLorean to a day 25 years in the future.
Today is that day: July 5, 2010.
Welcome to the future everyone!

An Annotation by Bobbie Dunn
This book is an excellent resource on brain research and how it fits in with our students.  Though the book is 10 years old, each chapter provides helpful information on different categories.  There are chapters on how the brain develops, enriching the brain, motivation, stress, emotions, etc.  Each one provides information [...]

An Annotation by Bobbie Dunn
This article gave an example of brain-based teaching strategies for each letter in the phrase, BRAIN BASED.  It elaborated on the:

Brain’s time clock,
Repetition, Active learning,
Images,
Novelty,
Be colorful,
Automatic learning,
Social brain,
Elicit emotions, and
Developing thinking skills.

It gave great statistics to back up some of the ideas, and gave examples of many ways to use these [...]

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer
Will Richardson does a phenomenal job of laying out everything needed to both initiate and defend the use of blogs and wikis in the classroom.  While I have already used a wiki within my classroom, this book provided the pedagogical reinforcement that I to some degree already could have used to [...]

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This article explained how the adolescent brain is still growing and that it’s part of how their brain learns to test the limits of the environment.  It goes on to detail how best to work with adolescents, with ideas such as continually teaching social and behavioral skills throughout the school year, [...]

An Annotation by Holly Waterman
Children are researchers.  They will constantly question who’s in charge and what types of behaviors they can get away with.  Teachers need to set limits in the classroom to avoid disruptive behaviors to even take place.  This article mentions the six properties of effective consequences as well as appropriate and inappropriate [...]

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer
Ray covers the basics of using a weblog (blog) in the classroom at literally any educational level, K-12.
Dubbing them “edublogs”, Ray cites four great ways to incorporate blogs into the classroom, including:

using them to communicate information to students and parents,
to provide instructional resources and useful links,
to allow students the opportunity to [...]

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This article explained how boys are scoring lower than girls on reading tests, and how the gap continues to grow as students get older.  It lays out different ways to get boys more interested in reading, and explains how their brains are not as ready for some activities as soon as [...]

An Annotation Holly Waterman
Cooperative learning is not necessarily having students work in the same group of four for every project throughout the year.  Instead teachers turn their focus on implementing a variety of structures in their teaching methods.  Using different cooperative learning methods mentioned in this article, teachers are able to meet the learning needs [...]

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer
Poling, who is an administrator in Maryland, looks at the span of uses that blogs can have in a school environment, including:

individual blogging,
classroom blogging,
collaborative blogging, and
staff development blogging.

Her biggest statement is regarding increased motivation she observes in students who are blogging as part of curriculum:
“[B]ringing children and adults together in an [...]