A child’s educational success is dependent on their background
Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources. This contradicts a commonly held view that these days that our education system has developed enough to give everyone a fighting chance. Source: Educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends…
Keep safe and unshorten URLs with unshorten.link
Unshorten.link is a website and Chrome extension that provides you protection against malicious shortened links by allowing you to unshorten urls. What is link shortening Link shortening is a way to take a very long URL and make it shorter so it’s easier to share. You’ve probably seen a link that starts with bit.ly or…
MakeUseOf has a collection of 24 Google Docs Templates that could be very useful for you and students
It’s all too easy to waste time formatting your Google documents. Others have already put together some excellent templates for your use. If you use Google Docs, here are 24 time-saving templates that’ll let you get on with using the documents, rather than struggling to put them together. Source: 24 Google Docs Templates That Will…
Use Dave’s Mapper to create fictional town & country maps
Dave’s Mapper is a fun little site for generating fictional maps. The main purpose of the site is to generate maps for role playing games, but it could also be used by students in the classroom. Design projects such as creating a town or community could benefit from this tool, allowing the students to easily…
Create an Excel spreadsheet from a picture with your smartphone
This looks really cool, I’m hoping that Google adds something like this to Google Sheets!
Try to locate yourself in the world with GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is an online geography game that places you somewhere in the world and you then have to figure out where you are. Here’s where it put me on my first try: