Deep dives
The flagship topic reads like a long argument for learning through image, sound, movement, and making. Digital storytelling is not treated as a novelty; it sits beside maps, doodles, theater, dance, and picture books as a serious route into memory, literacy, and meaning.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
A recurring pattern is the crossing of disciplines. Math can be taught through theater and dance, abstract ideas can become visible through the arts, and students can learn to think spatially by reading and drawing maps. Zeitz’s selections favor classrooms where the body, the hand, and the eye matter.
Teachers are using theater and dance to teach math — and it’s working
The editorial voice is quiet but clear. Most entries arrive without added commentary, yet the choices keep returning to student agency, independent thinking, growth mindset, and nontraditional forms of assessment. The result is a topic about education as a creative practice, not a delivery system.
60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves
The iPad topic is practical, but not merely technical. It gathers apps and classroom routines around creation: art-room work, storytelling, posters, word clouds, green screen projects, coding, robotics, and book-making.
The iPad Goes into The Art Room
The strongest thread is pedagogy first. Posts on design thinking, SAMR, digital citizenship, device sharing, and smart tablet habits suggest a teacher who wants technology to change classroom roles, not just digitize worksheets.
Design Thinking: Promoting creative thinking, team work & student responsibility for learning
There is also a clear attention to younger learners. Handwriting, typing, spelling, math, and primary classroom activities appear often, making the topic a toolbox for educators who need concrete ways to make tablets useful, social, and expressive.
4 Powerful iPad Apps for Teaching Kids Handwriting
The Montessori topic connects classic child-centered principles with contemporary tools and media. Independence, concentration, play, questioning, empathy, and real-world learning appear beside TED Ed talks, iPad tools, digital learning, and online resources.
Education: The Montessori Method [infographic]
Zeitz’s distinctive move is to bridge Montessori and 21st-century learning without treating them as opposites. The selections imply that technology can support observation, creativity, connection, and self-directed work when it serves the child rather than the device.
The Similarities Between Montessori And Digital Learning
Tinkering is one of the topic’s clearest signals. It links Montessori attention to hands-on discovery with maker culture, messy learning, and the patient development of curiosity.
Why Kids Need to Tinker to Learn
