The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences.
An interesting approach to the limitations of relationships with online coursework. It seems to be working for them, but I’ll need to do more research.
For those of you asking about Educational Android apps to use with students in class the chart below is a great place to start with. This is a work we have published a few months ago and is meant to provide teachers and educators with a handy resource they can fall back on when they…
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…
In the age of #CSforAll, there are hundreds of online resources to teach you and your students how to code. But is it possible to learn this digital skill through an analogue method? For those of you that love the touch, smell, and feel of books, below is a list of recommended reads to get…
There is a new platform for immersive learning games that’s taking classrooms across the world by storm. Based on the same principles as interactive Escape The Room digital games — which challenge players to use their surroundings to escape a prison-like scenario — Breakout EDU is a collaborative learning experience that enhances critical thinking and…
Hundreds of millions of people play intellectually-demanding video games every day. What does individual performance on these games tell us about cognition? Here, we describe two studies that examine the potential link between intelligence and performance in one of the most popular video games genres in the world (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas: MOBAs). Source: Exploring…
I fired up Google Slides yesterday like I do every day and was greeted with a new feature, Presenter View: I have already used Presenter View, but the Accept audience questions option had me intrigued. Starting Presenter View Presenter View is still not as polished as it is in Keynote or Powerpoint, but it does get the job done….
