Stephen Colbert warned us when he coined the term “truthiness” for those things that feel satisfyingly true, but have no actual basis in fact. And now we are swimming in it. From a Washington Post piece about brexit: All of this has come about thanks to a world that is increasingly suspicious of experts. Please,…
Back in March, we reported how Amazon was poised to up its stakes in the educational publishing market with the launch of a free platform called Inspire for teachers and others to post and share education resources online. Today, the company has confirmed it is doing just that. It has announced Amazon Inspire, an online education resources (OER) platform…
Google Cast for Education is a free Chrome app that allows students and teachers to share their screens wirelessly from anywhere in the classroom. Cast for Education carries video and audio across complex school networks, has built-in controls for teachers, and works seamlessly with Google Classroom. Source: Google Cast for Education Help And here I’ve…
Yet, there are often times when I’ll speak to a group about Genius Hour, write a post, or have a conversation online with teachers or school leaders that have serious misconceptions about Genius Hour. This is by no means an indictment, as we all (me included) have misconceptions about different types of learning, projects, and…
It is becoming more and more common for someone to have multiple Google accounts. You have your personal Gmail account. Then you have your school Google Apps for Education account. Then you also have that Google account for the club/sport/organization you help run. As a Google Education Trainer, I have lost count of how many accounts…
“Quite true; students are novices. Particularly true in lower grades (K-8) where group work and student-centered, inquiry-based classes have become more common over the years. [Because students are novices], the comparison of ‘group work’ to the collaboration that supposedly is going on in the working world and which they will need to do is flawed….
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Almost 20 years ago, when Paul Curtis was a social studies teacher at the just-opened New Technology High School in Napa, Calif., there wasn’t much “tech” to support project-based learning. “We didn’t even give the kids email addresses back then,” he chuckles. Even now, Curtis, Director of Curriculum for the New Tech Network, is confident…
‘In the past I have always said that a computer could never replace a teacher, because learning was based on relationships. Today, I am not so sure’ Source: ‘Teachers must embrace new technology or risk becoming obsolete’ | News Newsflash, the internet isn’t a fad and computers have been in schools for almost 40 years.
PiperEDU also comes at a discount. Whereas a normal Piper kit costs $300, PiperEDU will cost $250 when a school buys four units. If that price is too steep, teachers have the option to rent Piper kits on a monthly basis—two for $100 per month—and apply the money paid in rental fees to an eventual…