Internet safety, square root of i, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/02/a-checklist-to-keeping-you-and-your-students-safe-on-the-internet/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/explaining-the-square-root-of-i-in-the-most-pleasant-way-the-joy-of-mathematics/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/comic-the-ides-of-march/
Why does school develop confidence in boys but competence in girls?
I hear this concern often from the parents of many of my patients. They routinely remark that their sons do just enough to keep the adults off their backs, while their daughters relentlessly grind, determined to leave no room for error. The girls don’t stop until they’ve polished each assignment to a high shine and…
The reason why Goodwill is the 2nd largest provider of online courses
In 2018, more than 31 million people took virtual courses offered through GCFGlobal – a Goodwill Community Foundation initiative – and their online portal, offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese. This is an astounding number that would rank it just behind Coursera’s reported 37 million registered users in 2018 and more than both Udacity (10 million) and edX (18 million)…
Use Pandora Stories to create a podcast with music
Source: Introducing Pandora Stories! — AMP Playbook Pandora Stories is a way to build podcasts that include songs from the Pandora library. Pandora handles the licensing, you supply the commentary. I’m waiting to be approved, so I can’t see what the interface looks like, but this could be something that musically centered students could get excited…
A checklist to keeping you and your students safe on the internet
Source: Security Checklist Security Checklist provides you with a checklist of items to look at and check off in regards to internet security. The list is pretty good. When you are working with students you will want to offer additional information since the website doesn’t offer enough explanation of what some of the terms and services means….
Explaining the square root of i in the most pleasant way – The Joy of Mathematics
Ok mathematics people, how is it? My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
Geometry comic, timeline tool, and Chromebook audio editing – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/02/comic-life-rules-of-geometry/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/preceden-a-free-for-students-timeline-creator/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/beautiful-editor-is-almost-audacity-for-chromebooks/
A TED talk that discusses multitasking your way to creativity
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” It’s a great smackdown of multitasking, isn’t it, often attributed to the Roman writer Publilius Syrus, although you know how these things are, he probably never said it. What I’m interested in, though, is — is it true? I mean, it’s obviously true for emailing at the dinner table or texting…