The more time we spend on our phones, the more text messaging seems like a natural artistic medium, a modern outgrowth of the epistolary novel. You can see it in the fake text messageweb fiction genre, in games like Sarah is Missing… and in the silly quasi-interactive thriller that a smartphone writing app has somehow seduced me into creating….
In learning, there may be no greater tool for students than hands-on experience. Consider a classroom of first-graders who were lead in an endeavor to raise trout eggs while understanding environmental impacts. Or a high-school biology teacher who had her students create a project on any system in the human body, with results that included everything…
It’s back!! After many, many months, I am ready to show you the third classroom in our Classroom Eye Candy series. All images will open up nice and big in a new window if you click on them. Source: Classroom Eye Candy 3: The Funky Science Lab | Cult of Pedagogy This is not your parents…
Delaying school start times has been universally touted as the answer to the growing epidemic of teenage sleep deprivation, but this common orthodoxy may be based in false ideas about how teen biological clocks really work. The argument for later start times hinges on the fact that teenagers prefer to go to bed and sleep in…
Professional ‘Math Editor’ used to insert equations into documents. Source: ‘FMath Editor’ Docs add-on – Google Docs add-on Last week I wrote about Equatio, an add-on to insert mathematical expressions. FMath Editor is another option for entering math equations into documents. Once installed, you can build your equations from the tool on the right side…
Equatio is a new add-on for Google Docs and Forms to facilitate the entry of math expressions Insert equations into Google Docs and Forms with ease. Exemplary examples of school districts using Twitter See how school districts can use Twitter. Do one to one initiatives threaten public education For some reason, the author equates one…
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…
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…
Ratatype is a free online typing tutor and test. Don’t get to excited about the free test on the front page. You type one line and it tells you your speed and then directs you to sign up. Unfortunately, if Facebook is blocked at your school, then students will be required to create yet another account. Ratatype doesn’t…
If you use Google Forms for assesment you’ll want to check out Super Quiz Analyze Google Forms quizzes. Sorry science teachers, history is a better subject for teaching critical thinking Research into teaching critical thinking. “Don’t think someone is the system. You are the system.” Sir Ken Robinson is still at it!