With its deep roots in education, Earth Day provides a great opportunity to integrate environmental science and social activism into your classroom. We’ve rounded up five videos you can show in class to kick off your Earth Day lessons and get your students thinking about how they can make a difference in saving the planet, whether they’re…
For 20 years Kaspersky Lab has been standing at the forefront of cybersecurity and constantly innovating to protect businesses, governments and consumers around the globe. We pride ourselves on using our knowledge, experience and vision to always look ahead — and celebrating our 20-year anniversary is no exception. We have brought together men and women of art…
Source: Creaza Creaza offers four online tools for students to use to create media: Mind mapping Comic strips Video editing Podcasting Each item can be assessed by the teacher, and activities created by others can be used in the classroom. Everything that Creaza offers does come at a price, there isn’t a free tier. The service starts at…
Still, teachers can staunch boredom. Mehta and Fine (read sidebar) discovered that even in underperforming schools where boredom was near universal, “there were individual teachers who were creating classrooms where students were really engaged and motivated.” These teachers trusted students to sometime control the class. They tried to learn from their students as much as they…
As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public – and viral – new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system. In a trio of studies, Michigan State University education expert Alyssa Hadley Dunn and colleagues examined the relatively…
Source: Quizster – Streamlined grading. Formative assessment. Quizster is an interesting addition to the formative assessment game. Students can complete work on paper or in whatever app they want. They then submit their work to be graded to the teacher. The teach can mark up the document, give it a grade, and hand it back to…
It sounds like a paradox. How can you teach computer programming without a screen? Computer programming is a term synonymous with coding, after all. Text, letters, syntax, arranged in meaningful sequences that give machines instructions. We code with our keyboards and we see code on our screens. But there is a clear distinction between coding…
As anyone who has tried to pursue even a little bit of academic research can attest, publishers charge an arm-and-a-leg to access studies if you are not part of an institution that subscribes to their journals. And the authors of those studies don’t even get any of that money! Source: “Unpaywall” Is New Tool For…
Source: Formative – Intervene in the moments that matter most. Formative is a free service for performing formative assessments in your classrooms. The assessments take place in real-time, and can be completed on any device. The questions are not limited to multiple choice. They can also be short answer, drawings, or student submitted images. Formative is a…
The growth of this kind of stubborn ignorance in the midst of the Information Age cannot be explained away as merely the result of rank ignorance. Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all worse than ignorance: it is unfounded arrogance,…