Melissa Schonig is a fifth-grade English and Language Arts (ELA) teacher at Lynhaven Elementary School where 40-50 percent of students are Latino, and many don’t have access to computers at home. She didn’t know much about computer science, but wanted her students to get familiar with coding because it can help with other skills, such…
Source: Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 – YouTube Unfortunately, the TensorFlow Lite kit is out of stock. Once it’s back in stock, $45 is a reasonable price to get students started with machine learning.
Source: unDraw unDraw works a lot like the illustrations gallery on ManyPixels. You select a topic and a color, and unDraw will show you matching clipart that is open source and free to use in any project.
Source: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Open Culture This collection may be more of interest to history classes versus primary and intermediate classes. The books look really interesting, I really like Elfin Rhymes (mentioned in the article). Since these books are in the Public…
Source: Explore — Google Arts & Culture There are so many good sites on the internet, and just when you think you’ve found the best, another one comes along that’s even better. That’s where we are with the site Explore — Google Arts & Culture
This is the Allusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, have talked about language and why and how we use it for 100 episodes! Today there’ll be a celebratory parade of language-related facts that you’ve learned from the Allusionist and I’ve learned from making the Allusionist, so some old facts, some new facts – well, the…
Source: Apollo 11 in Real-time The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is coming up, and what better way to celebrate it than by listening and view the mission itself. The BBC has also put together information about the Apollo 11 mission, including a podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon. As someone who was…
Google announced at ISTE 2019 the release of the Chromebook App Hub, a collection of web apps and ideas for teachers and students to use. Although it is called the CHROMEBOOK App Hub, most of the ideas and web apps work on any browser, so feel free to browse even if you are not a…
Source: Illustrations Gallery – ManyPixels Yes, there are many different sources of royalty free and copyright friendly graphics and pictures. What makes ManyPixels nice is that the graphics you download all share a common look. After selecting a color, you can search for clip art, and ManyPixels will show you clipart with the same color…
ISTE 2019 has come and gone, and you didn’t get a chance to go. Fear not, I’ve collected a few resources from ISTE 2019. First up is a collaborative Google Sheet where ISTE participants have been putting links to presentations and resources that they have found during ISTE. Once you finish going through that in…