The Importance of Financial Literacy
By the time most students graduate from high school, they have little to no knowledge on how to handle their personal finances. Many people go straight from high school to the workforce and must learn to ...
New to Financial Literacy? There’s an App For That
For young people, particularly in high school or college, the ins and outs of managing money may be somewhat foreign. Most public schools don’t offer courses in personal finance anymore, and in college, such ...
Coolest Technology in the Classroom
Technology is a valuable resource the world over. In education and the classroom specifically, it is a path-maker, leading students of all ages into the most advanced and effective learning environs ever seen. ...
3 Ways to Raise the Money Classrooms Need
Innovating in the classroom is difficult, to say the least. Strapped for resources, teachers often struggle to purchase new educational tools or provide cutting-edge technology for students. As a result, ...
Project-Based Learning Organically Engages Students
The prospect of project-based learning in the classroom has tremendous potential for engaging students. Substantial research suggests project-based learning organically captures students’ attention while ...
Tech-Powered Parent Engagement
In today’s day and age, there are countless opportunities for engaging not just students, but parents too. Tech-enhanced parent engagement is a notion of increasing importance in the classroom, and teachers ...
Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry-based learning. It’s learning that is inspired by and modeled on inquiry, the students’ inquiry to be specific. They get curious, ask a question, and you (the instructor) answer it. This type of ...
Motivating the Unmotivated
In the academic environment, there are students who excel and who fail, those who do their best and those who remain apathetic, those who are motivated and those who simply could not care less. The latter ...
How Do You Incentivize Kids to Do Better in School? Build a Social Network That Rewards Them.
I recently came across this article on Entrepreneur.com that talks about financially incentivizing kids in order to increase their academic performance. While I'm not sure I agree entirely with the system, or ...
