Happy New Year!

My answer was always the same: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not, and talent cannot thrive in a vacuum. Finding talent is a numbers game — the more players there are, the more excellent ones will be found. (This same math applies to the gender disparity in chess. There are so few elite female…
I was commenting on a Google Doc tonight and wanted to put some emphasis on a word, so I put two asterisks on either side, so it looked like this. After hitting Comment, Google applied bold formatting to everything inside the outermost asterisks, so it looked like this in the comment: So to add bold to…
A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. The interview got quite a number of listens, likely because November said that 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/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/working-long-hours-is-not-good-for-you-or-your-school/ https://eduk8.me/2021/09/calling-on-tommy-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2021/09/gamify-writing-with-4thewords/
Thus far this is what I’ve found: The Future of Learning is going to be exciting and empowering for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. The Future of Learning is going to be scary for teachers, administrators, and parents (not students). Not sure what I mean? The classic technology paradox here is easier to understand with a…