Forest is a really cool Chrome extension to help teachers and students focus
Help students stay off of distracting sites.
Using Flipgrid in your class for video responses
Neat way to enhance class discussions.
Use WriteReader with students for digital publishing and classroom ebooks
Web based digital publishing platform for students.
Connecting globally is really powerful, but how do we use this medium in a way to enhance professional learning and empower the voice of teachers in our own building. Sometimes seeing the impact of using Twitter on a global level brings ideas back into our classrooms, but perhaps using Twitter locally could push people to connect others…
Are you a senior graduating this spring? Or a teacher switching districts? Or do you sleep better at night knowing you have a backup copy of your data? Then Google has you covered. Google offers a way to download all of your information stored at Google through Google Takeout, which is available at https://google.com/takeout. Once you…
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…
https://eduk8.me/2017/11/whats-a-computer/ https://eduk8.me/2017/11/create-interactive-fiction-classroom-activelit-quest/ https://eduk8.me/2017/11/sleep-deprivation-teens-screens-part-problem/
On a larger scale, this love affair with data—what Berkeley geography graduate students Camilla Hawthorne and Brittany Meché termed “fetishized numeration” in their Space & Society article—is visible in corporate, academic, and policy circles. At UC Berkeley, Chancellor Dirks wrote in March that “Across all of higher education, faculty and administrators are increasingly recognizing the…
Data-driven instruction is one of those buzzwords in today’s educational landscape. We hear all about data, but if your experience is anything like mine, you’ve never really been trained to do much with it. Sure, we give pre-assessments and set goals for post-assessments, growth, and student success, but it often feels like we’re doing so…