How three teachers turned classroom inspiration into action through the Certified Innovator Program

How three teachers turned classroom inspiration into action through the Certified Innovator Program

We recently spoke with three inspirational educators about their experience in the Innovator Program and the ideas they brought to life: Charlie Shryock, who created eThanks, an online gratitude site for teachers; Matt Wigdahl who designed a makerspace project called SolverSpace; and Carrie Anne Philbin who created Geek Gurl Diaries to inspire girls to pursue…

Tech companies are starting to look beyond the four-year degree

Tech companies are starting to look beyond the four-year degree

The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don’t have four-year degrees. Source: Why More Tech Companies Are…

Changing the location of your downloads folder on a Chromebook

Changing the location of your downloads folder on a Chromebook

Users of Chromebooks have it easy. All of their data, backed up automatically to Google Drive, they don’t have a care in the world. Except when it comes to the Downloads folder. On a Google Chromebook, the Downloads folder is local to the device and is not backed up anywhere. This might not be a problem in…

Find and insert free pictures with the Pixabay Free Images Google Docs add-on

Find and insert free pictures with the Pixabay Free Images Google Docs add-on

Use this add-on to choose from thousands of free images and insert them in your Google Docs document. Source: Pixabay Free Images – Google Docs add-on Pictures that show up in the results with this add-on are Creative Commons 0 licensing, which means you can use them for any purpose, including commercial. The first time…

See predictions of what the Earth will be like in 2050 at the 2050.earth project

See predictions of what the Earth will be like in 2050 at the 2050.earth project

For 20 years Kaspersky Lab has been standing at the forefront of cybersecurity and constantly innovating to protect businesses, governments and consumers around the globe. We pride ourselves on using our knowledge, experience and vision to always look ahead — and celebrating our 20-year anniversary is no exception. We have brought together men and women of art…

Creaza offers four online tools for student created media

Creaza offers four online tools for student created media

Source: Creaza Creaza offers four online tools for students to use to create media: Mind mapping Comic strips Video editing Podcasting Each item can be assessed by the teacher, and activities created by others can be used in the classroom. Everything that Creaza offers does come at a price, there isn’t a free tier. The service starts at…

Boring, bored, gone.

Boring, bored, gone.

Still, teachers can staunch boredom. Mehta and Fine (read sidebar) discovered that even in underperforming schools where boredom was near universal, “there were individual teachers who were creating classrooms where students were really engaged and motivated.” These teachers trusted students to sometime control the class. They tried to learn from their students as much as they…