One important skill that students need to learn is to how to view a website and critically evaluate its validity. A site that has been around for awhile is Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division, a website that shows the danger of water. Another site I stumbled across this week is Chemtrail Vaccines, a website that “sells” a vaccine to “protect” oneself against the chemtrails produced by jets.
Source: Seterra Geography Games Seterra Geography Games is a great site for helping you teach geography. There are games and resources for all sorts of geography related lessons. Best of all, everything is free, including the iOS and Android apps. The site consists of online games, printables, and the ability to create your own quizzes….
Classroom technology is everywhere. Schools are filled with shiny, interactive devices, and new gadgets and apps flood the market every day. Teachers in districts with limited funding for technology are turning to crowdfunding sources to obtain technology for their classrooms. But is technology the panacea that we’re all searching for? Source: Five Myths About Classroom…
Source: Demystifying Public Speaking by Lara Callender Hogan Lara Hogan’s Demystifying Public Speaking has been available as a physical book, and you can now read it for free online. I’ve done plenty of presentations in front of people, and after reading through this book, I realize what an amateur I’ve been. This book is chock…
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh and early sound recordings enter public domain – The Verge This past January 1st some really big works entered the public domain, the biggest being the original Winnie The Pooh. When a piece of work enters the public domain, anyone is allowed to reproduce the work or remix the work into something new….
But giving my students choice and allowing them to being curious learners was hard work. In fact, sometimes I was still really ineffective at guiding the learning that was taking place in my classroom. I tried many different project-based learning frameworks, embraced the inquiry cycle, and tweaked my own idea of how to structure this…
