TED-Ed has a new YouTube series for kids about coding
Episode 2 is coming this month, I can’t wait! This is a great introduction into programming, covering some of the basics.
Only 16 percent of teachers in a recent survey give their schools an ‘A’ for incorporating technology into their classroom, and 48 percent of all surveyed teachers consider the technology they do have to be outdated.Teachers’ Dream Classroom Survey, sponsored by Edgenuity, reveals that of teachers who did give their schools an ‘A’ for classroom…
Using technology to enhance learning is an incredibly exciting idea, and as an area of education is growing fast.Blended learning, mobile learning, connectivism, and other increasingly popular ideas all owe their existence to technology. But the reality in the majority of public schools in the United States is less than cutting edge. While there is…
The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of the animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence, like a contact sheet, and then…
Eduk8me’s Edcerpts is a monthly PDF magazine aimed at the educational community What is Edcerpts? I’ve been grasping with figuring out what’s the best way to connect the educational community with each other. There are so many doing great things, but, as always, connecting those great things with the people that will benefit is difficult….
Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Does anyone else remember the Little Professor Calculator? According to my teachers it was destined to ruin math for us, but I digress. If you feel nostalgic…