Did you know that birds are a government conspiracy?
Here is another website you can use with your students on learning critical thinking skills when evaluating websites. Who knew that Birds Aren’t Real?
Here is another website you can use with your students on learning critical thinking skills when evaluating websites. Who knew that Birds Aren’t Real?
Source: Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library Open Peeps is a CC0 licensed graphic library of people. CC0 is the equivalent of Public Domain, meaning you can do whatever you want with the graphics. The site does require an email to download, but you could download the package for your students first. In the Flat Assets folder…
The Compelled Educator: May Matters! Join the #lastbell movement! In many schools, the countdown has already begun. The days until summer break… the days until the beach… the days until there’s *no kids.* Let’s throw that “tradition” on it’s head. Let’s re-evaluate the influence we have on students’ lives. Let’s all join together as an…
Source: unDraw unDraw works a lot like the illustrations gallery on ManyPixels. You select a topic and a color, and unDraw will show you matching clipart that is open source and free to use in any project.
Stop educating students for jobs that won’t exist The robots are coming – and they may put your friendly neighborhood retail staffer out of work. Home-improvement superstore Lowe’s recently began employing robot sales assistants in some of its stores. The robots can answer questions in multiple languages and take customers directly to what they’re looking…
Students today are stressed out about grades, more so than ever before. A few months ago I published a post (here) with evidence that this is so for college students. Many students responded to that post with comments about how their parents, teachers, and society in general are telling them that their future depends on…
Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find. Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study…