A comic, a meme, and teaching coding – A Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/face-to-face-again-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/i-named-my-car-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/should-kids-be-taught-coding/
I used to have beautiful handwriting. Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, when it was assumed writing in cursive was a necessary skill, I actually practiced my letters, trying out different capital “Gs” and inventing fancy swirls to go under my signature. If I ever needed to leave a mysterious letter in an old…
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About a month ago, someone placed a pair of hipsterish glasses on a museum floor as a prank. Within minutes, a crowd gathered to take pictures of the new “work of art.” You could read this as a throwback to the Dada movement or you could view it as yet another ironic, cynical, postmodern statement…
Have you ever seen a school data wall? In a struggling Newark, N.J., public school, I’ve seen bulletin boards showing the test scores of each grade compared with state averages. And in one in affluent Silicon Valley, I’ve seen smartboards that track individual students’ math responses in real time. These kinds of public displays send…
How to Print a YouTube Video – Storyboard Bookmarklet Yes, you read the title right, this bookmarklet allows you to print a Youtube video. Introducing Google Cast for Education Google Cast allows the teacher’s computer, that is attached to the projector, to act as a Chromecast device for the student’s Chromebooks in the classroom. Google…
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