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If you're getting pushback from your active learning strategies, read this!

I know we all feel some frustration from students experiencing a new approach to learning, especially at this time of year.  This is impetus to stick with your active learning approach! Check out this great Science News article from Harvard University :  More learning in 'active learning' classrooms, but students don't know it "Deep learning is hard work. The effort involved in active learning can be misinterpreted as a sign of poor learning," said  Louis Deslauriers, Director of Science Teaching and Learning . "On the other hand, a superstar lecturer can explain things in such a way as to make students feel like they are learning more than they actually are."
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Great Google Chrome Plugins

Support all learners with some easy-to-add Chrome Extensions  Scoutlier gives you flexibility to creating assignments that ask for all types of responses.  That way, you can design your activity for a wide range of abilities and give every student a voice. Try Google Chrome extensions like Read Aloud for text-to-speech capability or a Translator and dictionary to make yours assignments more accessible, especially for SPED and ELL. Edutopia has some student recommendations to check out too, here: 10 Student Tested Chrome Extentions - Edutopia
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It’s 2019. So why do 21st-century skills still matter?

We hear more and more about how important 21st-century skills are for all learners as they prepare for future careers.  At Scoutlier , we're especially interested in helping provide tools and support teachers in gathering  evidence of learning and improving student outcomes as they practice the 21st-century learning skills, or 4C's in a repetitive and consistent way.  From  Empowering Students with 21st Century Skills - Getting Smart :  ". . . At a time when our civic life feels strained, we want our learners to enter the world with an understanding of what it takes to be a good citizen—one who can be civically engaged, critically thinking, digitally literate, globally aware, and an effective communicator." 
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