When I see a great light display, I rarely consider the effort and meticulous planning that goes into it. While I was going through my decorating process on Friday, I couldn’t help but think of the parallel to our classrooms. When great instruction is happening in our classrooms, we often don’t think of the effort…
According to research from Office Team, 63% of senior managers said their company is “very supportive of their staff’s efforts to achieve work-life balance.” However, only 34% of employees agreed with this statement. This is a significant change from a similar work-life survey conducted 10 years ago in which 45% of senior managers characterized their…
For example, robot journalists in the Associated Press wrote thousands of stories last year, mostly about listed companies’ earnings and sports news. The automated technology has proved to be highly accurate in reporting on standardized topics, and was extremely fast. A report on a listed firm’s results could be churned out in a second. AP’s…
Google’s new app, available in the Chrome Web Store, lets you easily access files on a network server from within Chrome OS. Source: Chromebooks can now seamlessly access Windows network file shares | PCWorld Although the article focusses on Windows file sharing, macOS computer can use the same networking protocol, SMB. This means that the…
From the I didn’t know I needed this department comes ASCIIFlow. Are you tired of having your diagrams being fancy? Would you like to go back to a simpler time of diagramming, where you only need a hyphen, plus sign, or capital X? Then ASCIIFlow is for you. I could see this being used to draw up simple graphs…
Here is the round up of all 13 posts of ways teachers can hack their learning. We’ve all been through district led PD. Some good, some bad, but not very often is it something that teachers feel personally invested. Daniel Pink put forth in Drive that motivation boils down to three ideas: autonomy, purpose, and…
Sleep! is part 13 of 13 Ways Teachers can Hack their learning. From a motivation point of view, this is the easiest hack on the list. Practicality, however, gets in the way. Starting in August, teachers start to become more and more sleep deprived. They may not notice it, but it’s there. You’ll see the…
Eat healthy and Exercise is part 12 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. I will be the first to admit that I’m not very good at eating healthy (Ho Hos and Diet Code Red Mountain Dew FTW!) but I’m much better at exercising (13 marathons and 3 half-marathons!). Two of the best things…
Present at a conference is part 11 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. One of the best ways to learn is to share and help others learn. This is only of the tenets of teaching, but once we become teachers, we kind of forget about sharing and teaching our peers. You may feel…
Attend a Maker Faire is part 10 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Last year we were in Detroit for a family vacation. One of our planned stops was the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. As we were driving to the museum, we noticed how busy it was which seemed odd. And then,…