Rezzly is a gamification platform for the classroom. Students interact with Rezzly through the completion of quests. There are currently 20,000 quests available from other teachers, and you can create your own. The platform takes care of all the nitty gritty data collection for you. The onboarding for students has a pretty steep usage curve,…
On a Sunday night two weeks back, in the Rose Court Garden of the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, 150 antsy competitors between the ages of 13 and 22 milled around eating miniature whoopie pies by the light of the Moon, sizing up their global rivals in the efficient use of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word….
As she neared 24 straight hours of playing Dead Space, Kaitlyn Richelle watched in shock as a $250 donation flashed across her screen. “That’s the goal,” she shouted. “That’s the tuition.” She paused her Twitch stream, struggling to get a full sentence out. She had just raised $5,000 to help pay for medical school. Source: Meet the streamers using…
Summary: Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks. Source: The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think Also, 26% can’t use a computer AT ALL!!!
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Our list of the best STEM toys for preschoolers 2017 is carefully structured to include toys which provide a rounded curriculum for your child. From learning to code, to engineering basics, to learning about scientific equipment, we’ve got it covered! Source: Top 5 Best STEM Toys for Preschoolers 2017 | Coding & Engineering I’ve listed the…
It was in building the network connecting homestead to homestead that the farmers’ ingenuity came to the fore. Instead of erecting new poles and wires, many either ran phone wires along the top of wooden fence posts or used the barbed wire itself to carry signals. The latter hardly worked as well as insulated copper…
Over a period of two years, skateboarder Christian Flores fell down thousands of times, broke boards, went to the hospital twice, and cracked a rib trying to do a laser flip down a triple set of stairs. Source: Landing the hardest trick after 2 years of trying A great example to show students on how to…
Source: Explain and Send Screenshots – Chrome Web Store I’ve been a big fan of Nimbus Screenshot for awhile, but I have a feeling that Explain and Send Screenshots is going to be my go to screenshot tool now. The tools are pretty standard, but my favorite is the numbering text tool. With it you…
The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking. Source: The digital native is a myth I love the quote, “yeti with a smartphone”.