Did you know that birds are a government conspiracy?
Here is another website you can use with your students on learning critical thinking skills when evaluating websites. Who knew that Birds Aren’t Real?
Here is another website you can use with your students on learning critical thinking skills when evaluating websites. Who knew that Birds Aren’t Real?
The Google Fonts team has teamed up with Thomas Jockin to create a series of fonts that are aimed at improving reading speed. To learn more about the research behind this initiative, see here for more details. Source: G Suite Updates Blog: New fonts intended to help improve reading speed now available in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides…
Source: Epic!: Read Amazing Children’s Books Online – Unlimited Access to the Best Books and Learning Videos For Kids 12 and Under I stumbled upon Epic! when I read about their free activity calendars. Although the service has a price for families, it is free to use in your classroom. Their quickstart guide is available…
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Source: Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way It’s a long read, but well…
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…
All the ways iOS 9.3 will impact school iPad rollouts | eSchool News In March, Apple upgraded the iPad and iPhone operating system to iOS 9.3 (quickly followed by iOS 9.3.1, which tweaked a few bugs). The lead up to the release caught the eye of the K-12 community, which had been waiting for a…
Will technology replace teachers? “Technology will never replace great teachers, But technology in the hands of a great teacher can be transformational.” Erin Klein According to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer is no.