Sources: Focus To-Do: Pomodoro Timer & To Do List – Chrome Web Store and Marinara: Pomodoro® Assistant – Chrome Web Store A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the Pomodoro technique as a way of feigning off procrastination. To use the Pomodoro technique, you set a timer for 25 minutes with the intent of…
Stop searching and clicking around to navigate Google Classroom. Add bookmarks to directly jump to what you need in Google Classroom. I’ve seen people who constantly search for Google Classroom on Google itself, or they always click around Google Classroom, taking up precious class time. Now you can quickly find the page of Google Classroom…
Though being virtual has many benefits, it has necessitated many of us to multitask, dividing our attention among our other activities. Is your team attendance inconsistent? Do only a few members participate and engage? Overcome team members who are disengaged during video conference meetings with these tips. Source: How to Keep Your Team Engaged During…
We found that in schools where interruptions were more frequent, teachers were more likely to report that interruptions were detrimental to learning. In schools that averaged at least 15 interruptions per day, according to teachers’ reports on our survey, more than 59 percent of teachers reported that interruptions at least somewhat interfered with instruction. And…
One of the best aspects of being a teacher is watching students go from saying, “I hate writing,” to being so passionate about writing that they refuse to stop when the bell rings. In these moments, it can feel like magic. While there are many ways to spark the love of writing, one of…
Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office. A new study by four BYU information systems professors found newly-formed work teams experienced a 20 percent increase in productivity on subsequent tasks after playing video games together for just…
Here is a short visual we created for teachers explaining the core notions behind the concept of Blended Learning. We have also included a collection of what we believe are some essential web tools for classrooms that adopt a blended learning model of instruction. You can share, print and use the visual the way you…
Literacy Is More Than Just Reading-Another important theme from our panel discussion was, that while the literacy skills of reading, decoding and comprehension are all important, literacy is more than that. We’ve entered an age where the definition of what actually makes a person literate is shifting and evolving. The introduction of technology into learning…
Project Bloks is a research project. Our aim is to create an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids. Source: Project Bloks – Creating a development platform for tangible programming Project Bloks reminds me a lot of littleBits, although the Bloks look more…
A Small Idea for More Choice in Our Curriculum So I wanted to do a review of the standards we have covered. I wanted to give the students way more choice. While choice and student voice is huge component of what we do, it can sometimes feel lost in the background as we create projects…