Christmas Eve

This is part 3 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. For your students, take the guesswork out of finding your class online by designating your classroom’s default home page. This should be the main site for your classroom to post news, links, assignments, etc. It helps the students know that…
For the 4th of July, I found a presentation from Mary Kate DiNorcia and Chris Simonetti on the physic errors in Independence Day. Enjoy!
Over the weekend I stumbled up Twitter’s Emoji artwork, which is Creative Commons licensed, and thought how the emoji could be used to create some cool badges. I had also been looking for a project to try out Teachers Pay Teachers, and the Emoji Badges project was born. I’ve been playing around with gamefication in…
Jeopardy style games with flipquiz.me Create online Jeopardy games with Flipquiz Why Emma Watson won’t take selfies with fans Clever girl. G Suite students now have the ability to transfer content to personal Google accounts Updates to Google Takeout.
Slashdot linked to an article at The Guardian where Lawrence ‘Larry’ Luckham to his camera to work one day in 1967. He brought a camera into work to capture a day in the life at a company churning out some of the biggest technological advances of the decade The article brought out some interesting theories on the state…
In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…