Getting started with Tiermaker in your classroom #YouTube
Tiermaker.com is a pretty cool way to open up debates and discussions in your classroom. See my complete article here.
Tiermaker.com is a pretty cool way to open up debates and discussions in your classroom. See my complete article here.
Despite all the press makerspaces receive, not all are successful. Oftentimes when schools create makerspaces, excitement builds for the first few weeks as students create and explore. But as time passes, students lose interest, and the makerspaces languish silently, gathering dust. The tools that filled those makerspaces — big and small, expensive and reused, high-tech…
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The Google Cast for education app is now available. To try it out, teachers need to install the Google Cast for Education app, and the students need to install the Google Cast extension. There are three caveats right now: The Chromebooks must be in the Beta channel, running ChromeOS 52 or newer. This won’t be the…
If you use Google Forms to collect entry or exit tickets, or other information from students, a quick and fast way to offer custom feedback is to use the formMule add-on. I posted a how-to before on using formMule, and you can follow that page with a couple of changes. By using formMule, you can…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HILE using an RSS reader is a pretty easy process, setting it up isn’t. There are a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you set it up you can read your RSS feeds like a boss. For an introduction into why you would want to us RSS, check out my article from last…
I next contacted Richard Freed, a clinical psychologist and the author of Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age, who works with a wide range of children and families in the San Francisco Bay area. “High levels of smartphone use by teens often have a detrimental effect on achievement, because teen phone use is…