First look at the micro:bit, a single board computer for the classroom

First look at the micro:bit, a single board computer for the classroom

First look at the micro:bit, a single board computer for the classroom. I first wrote about the micro:bit in 2016, but since it wasn’t available in the United States, I didn’t have one to play with and promptly forgot about it. This past week I was reminded about it after reading an article from the…

Conversation styles – introverts vs extroverts

Conversation styles – introverts vs extroverts

You and a coworker step into an elevator. As you descend in the tiny metal box, the silence between you grows awkward. Suddenly your coworker blurts out, “Such a shame that we’re stuck in the office on a beautiful day like this!” You mumble, “It sure is.” As an introvert, you despise making small talk; it feels like your brain was literally…

Integrating Asana & G Suite for project management

Integrating Asana & G Suite for project management

Businesses are using Asana  and G Suite to collaborate and manage projects from start to finish. Asana is a project management tool that helps teams plan, manage and track work, and is a part of the Recommended for G Suite program. Source: Track projects with G Suite and Asana When I was checking out project management solutions, Asana was…

Against inquiry-based learning?

Against inquiry-based learning?

Today’s digest revisits the idea of inquiry methods. Why? Because a quick Google search resulted in the very clear impression that many instructors still believe (or at least blog about) the idea that students learn more when they discover new knowledge on their own, without being explicitly taught. Given this apparent pervasive belief, we share here a…

Deliver lessons with Unio

Deliver lessons with Unio

Unio is a free platform for creating lessons and delivering them directly to your students’ laptop screens. It’s designed to let you project a lesson and quizzes onto your students’ screens and have them follow along with you. You can include quiz questions at various points throughout your lessons. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use…

Educating children in the developing world

Educating children in the developing world

The Bridge concept — low-cost private schools for the world’s poorest children — has galvanized many of the Western investors and Silicon Valley moguls who learn about the project. Bill Gates, the Omidyar Network, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the World Bank have all invested in the company; Pearson, the multinational textbook-and-assessment company, has done…

How much control is too much for the future you want to create?

How much control is too much for the future you want to create?

Yesterday, I noticed this article being shared; “Hays school district orders 800 padlocks for students“. I am glad that they are providing iPads to their students so it is not that they are not ignoring opportunities for both creation and consumption, but I am firm believer that the best device for any learner is often the…