Free IWB software, coding, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/ti-draw-is-an-online-interactive-whiteboard/
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/ted-ed-has-a-new-youtube-series-for-kids-about-coding/
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/comic-why/
Once installed Peek-a-tab gives you fast and easy access to every open tab in Google Chrome. You can invoke Peek-a-tab from the toolbar icon or from they keyboard. Once it’s activated, it gives you a list of your tabs in all of your open windows. That’s pretty cool, but Peek-a-tab takes it a step farther and let’s you immediately start searching…
While some outdated educators are hung up on making students sit, stare, and copy down their every word (by hand!), innovative educators know there is a better way.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. Source: Lisa Nielsen: The…
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/minecraft-is-coming-to-chromebooks/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/have-fun-managing-your-own-biosphere-with-this-free-web-based-model/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/comic-ama/
Though the conversations focused either on the literature or on its implications, students acquired a number of soft skills through the process that were as valuable as the content of the exchanges. Removed from those conversations, I think our students’ education is incomplete without these skills. Source: 4 Skills Every Student Needs – Leading, Learning,…
When you cast your mind back to the days of school, you probably think of dusty textbooks, graffiti and chewing gum, lessons that were both boring and unengaging, and many, many chewed pens. But the classroom of tomorrow will look very different. The latest advancements in technology and innovation are paving the way for an…
A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth. William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known…