Teachers are incorporating cloud tools and content into instruction in ways that change how they interact with students both in and outside the classroom. They are no longer limited to face-to-face instruction or constricted by class schedules. Instead, teachers are using both tools that are imposed by administrators and more ad-hoc resources. Source: How teachers see…
Badge List is a service that lets you create and award badges. Badge List offers both free and paid accounts, the difference being is that the free accounts are totally open and have no privacy. There is educational pricing available, starting at $25 a year for a teacher. Once you are signed up, you can create your…
Phishing attacks are increasing in number and evolving in variety (newer methods include spear phishing and CEO fraud), putting at risk millions of users worldwide – actually, everyone with an email account. Why are they so popular among fraudsters and why are they so successful? Source: 6 reasons why phishing is so popular and successful –…
Illuminations has lesson plans and interactives for the Pre-K – 12th grade math teacher, all free! Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Illuminations has over 700 lesson plans and over 100 interactives available. There are also 13 Calculation Nation® games, which are games where the student can compete against other students. If you are an iPad…
Despite clear advantages to advancing digital literacy, schools often experience considerable roadblocks to implementing digital literacy initiatives. Interestingly, accessibility often isn’t the biggest factor blocking this process—more often than not, it comes down to a teacher’s own comfort with social media. Teachers with little to no training on how to integrate digital literacy exercises into…
As a previous math teacher, I have a soft spot for the pains teachers and students can feel when trying to use math symbols and expressions in technology. The same thing can be said in science when typing chemical formulas. Technology seems to play best with normal letters and numbers, rather than exponents, subscripts, fractions, and such. Although…
SlideBot automatically creates presentations from your text. Once you sign up, you enter the text you want on each slide. SlideBot analyzes the text and picks an image for each slide. It then analyzes the image for the best place to position your text, along with selecting a format for the text itself. After SlideBot creates your presentation, you…
What I have discovered is we sometimes need to take inventory of some distractions and bad habits that keep us from being our most productive. I always been a big believer in asking myself: What do I need to start doing, keep doing, and stop doing? Source: Why You Need a Don’t-Do List | Kelly…
When the scores were revealed, the classroom of middle school literacy teachers was everything but hopeful. “Did they even try?” one teacher wondered about her students. The team was disappointed and defeated. After a year of following the curriculum to fidelity, according to the mock-state test data, our efforts meant nothing. Source: Intrinsic Motivation vs….
Nudge is a way to practice and learn math on tablets Using the free app on an Android tablet or iPad, students age 6-9 can practice solving math problems. The app works by guiding the students through the process of solving the different types of problems. As the student works through the problem, the app suggests courses…