A meme, a comic, and no camera in video conferences – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/10/long-day-of-saturday-grading-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/assigned-points-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/turning-off-the-camera/
https://eduk8.me/2017/09/innovative-doesnt-require-technology/ https://eduk8.me/2017/09/save-time-with-this-free-digital-research-tool/ https://eduk8.me/2017/09/the-university-of-kentucky-has-created-18-active-learning-classrooms/
Building a catapult that can hit a target at one, three and five meters is a core project of Ben Smith’s engineering class. When the project is assigned, groups get to work inventing a mechanism that will meet the objectives, often coming up with ingenious ideas. But when Smith noticed his students were increasingly asking…
NComputing has launched the Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app, giving U.S. schools the ability to easily run Windows applications on their Chromebooks.More than half of all computers used in U.S. K-12 schools are Chromebooks, and now NComputing Chromebooks – with the vSpace client – provides easy, multi-user access to the Windows, Java or Silverlight applications…
Create, share, and read books at StoryJumper. For another option to digitally publish student work, check out StoryJumper. The site is free for creating, sharing, and reading, there is only a price if you want to print out the story or if you want to order a physical copy of the book. Students can either use…
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…
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talent) with numerical indicators…