While some outdated educators are hung up on making students sit, stare, and copy down their every word (by hand!), innovative educators know there is a better way. At this year’s #NYCSchoolsTech Summit teachers came together to learn about innovative ways to support teaching and learning but they weren’t focused on taking notes.
Thanks to Brian Pool I’ve been looking at using Moodle and adding some gamification elements to my classroom. One aspect of gamification is creating badges for students to earn. In the video Gamify your Moodle courses in under 20 minutes Federic Nevers shows how he makes his badges for Moodle by using OpenClipart. When you visit OpenClipart, there are samples…
Verizon has since backtracked on the plan to charge Remind. You no longer have to use this hack to get free text messages from Remind if you are a Verizon customer. This past week Remind announced that as of January 28, 2019, SMS notifications to Verizon customers will no longer work. Everyone is in a tizzy, and…
Don’t assume I’m not working because I’m on my phone Smartphones do more than Snapchat or Facebook! Microsoft And Apple Target Schools In War With Chromebook Competition means more choices in the classroom. Textspeak doesn’t work in college Formal rules still exist.
One of the most buzzed-about education tech innovations this summer is not so high-tech. Actually, it is mostly wood-based. Occupying a school bus parked outside the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education, a tiny startup called Breakout EDU this week generated waiting lines as teachers queued up to get a peek….
