Retail, preschool math, and Asteroids games – Top 3 Posts of the week
https://eduk8.me/2017/11/downfall-retail-relates-education/
https://eduk8.me/2017/12/more-math-in-preschool/
https://eduk8.me/2017/11/create-asteroids-quizzing-game-kupiter/
In his 2018 annual letter, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeated his rule that PowerPoint is banned in executive meetings. What Bezos replaced it with provides even more valuable insight for entrepreneurs and leaders. Source: Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint in Meetings. His Replacement Is Brilliant | Inc.com I shared on Twitter this week about our…
While surfing the net looking for information on running Android Apps on my Chromebook Flip, I found an interesting page, Use Android apps from the Chrome Web Store. Apparently, there are about 36 android apps that you can currently run on the Chromebooks. Kinda cool, although the experience is a little jarring. I’m hoping the final…
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Yet, there are often times when I’ll speak to a group about Genius Hour, write a post, or have a conversation online with teachers or school leaders that have serious misconceptions about Genius Hour. This is by no means an indictment, as we all (me included) have misconceptions about different types of learning, projects, and…
Here are 7 things that I do to start every school year. I also created the following video to help explain the items on this list. Create a folder for the current school year (21-22)I always create a folder for the current school year, and start it empty. When I re-use stuff from the previous…
In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. But what has been left unsaid is how our…