I don’t know what I was doing, but this past week I stumbled upon the WordPress.com App for the desktop. Currently available for OS X and Windows, the WordPress.com App takes some of the administrative features from the WordPress dashboard and delivers those features to you in an up to date, and I believe, more…
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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…
Nationally, 9 in 10 parents want their children to learn computer science (CS) but only a quarter of principals report offering CS with programming in their schools. Source: Google for Education: Accelerating CS Education in Local Communities: The Stats by State Computer Science is the study of what computers can do. Programming may be a…
A ton of announcements came out of the Google I/O 2018 keynote yesterday, but the most exciting is that Linux is coming to Chromebooks! I mentioned two years ago what a game changer Android apps will be for Chromebooks, and this is even bigger! Students will be able to edit videos, create and modify graphics…
Have you ever seen a school data wall? In a struggling Newark, N.J., public school, I’ve seen bulletin boards showing the test scores of each grade compared with state averages. And in one in affluent Silicon Valley, I’ve seen smartboards that track individual students’ math responses in real time. These kinds of public displays send…