Fact Monster, a comic, and the Public Domain – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/01/fact-monster-is-a-reference-site-designed-for-kids/
https://eduk8.me/2020/01/comic-future-hiring/
https://eduk8.me/2020/01/new-in-the-public-domain-for-2020/
Read is part 4 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Read! No, I’m not being ironic. Reading is a pretty popular activity in the United States, with over 75% of adults having read at least one book in the last year. As school teachers, we get caught up in all of the…
https://eduk8.me/2018/04/slos-due-friday/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/an-amazing-list-of-tools-to-use-in-your-classroom-classtools/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/factitious-is-an-online-game-to-help-people-recognize-fake-news/
With all of this talk about screencasts, what about flipping your classroom? Flipping a classroom doesn’t involve gymnastics, trampolines, or basically any physical activity. Which is good, because my balance is on par with Weebles. When you flip your classroom, you provide your lecture or some other support materials to your students as homework before the…
The Real Value of Computer Science Providing students with open ended opportunities to think critically (with or without coding) creates problem solvers and independence, both of which are required skills for today’s industry. Experts have branded a set of skills as “21 Century Competencies” which include computational thinking. Coding also supports spatial sense and makes…
Security today is a really big issue, and one of the best steps you can take to keep yourself secure is to use two factor authentication. What is two factor authentication? Currently you probably use a username and password to identify yourself to services. This is the concept of logging in using something you know….