France smartphone policy, creating ebooks, and a comic – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/01/france-smartphone-policy-kids/
https://eduk8.me/2018/01/students-can-create-multimedia-ebooks-5-tools/
https://eduk8.me/2018/01/dont-go-there/
Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need. Source: How to…
At the start of my teaching career, when I was fresh out of graduate school, I briefly considered trying to pass myself off as a cool professor. Luckily, I soon came to my senses and embraced my true identity as a young fogey. After one too many students called me by my first name and…
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This is part 11 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. I’ll be the first one to tell you my memory is terrible, especially with interactions during the day. Of course at the moment I believe I’ll remember it, but a day later and it’s already gone. This is my reason for setting up a journal…
It’s no longer enough—if it ever was—for teachers to lecture to a row of desks; today’s teacher must be more of a coach. The task now is to help students understand what they need to know, strategize about what they need to do next and engage in critical problem-solving—all while helping them understand how information…
The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of the animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence, like a contact sheet, and then…