I’d suggest that happiness for students might arise from challenge, from hard work fairly rewarded, or from the acquisition of new skills. But there is of course a quicker route: you keep students happy by not failing them. And then – surprise! – when they graduate they are not literate, or numerate, or knowledgeable enough…
Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar. This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted…
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When I reflect back to early versions of iOS and the workarounds that teachers and students used to have to jump through hoops to complete through third-party applications, the iOS operating system has come a very long way from where it used to be. Source: Ten things every educator should be able to do with their…
Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension. Source: Britannica Insights – Chrome Web Store The Britannica Insights extends the Google search results with an additional panel of information that links to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Google has already been doing this with Wikipedia links. The extension doesn’t show for all search results. For example,…
Design a street with Streetmix. Streetmix is an website that allows you to design your own street. You can place various roads, sidewalks, public transportation, etc. in your street. I could see students using this to redesign streets in their home town and try to answer problems such as the lack of sidewalks or places to…
Think about the lawyers who’ve been hugely successful doing what they have done for 20-30+ years in law firms. They aren’t seeing the shift to needing to be technically competent, using technology to be more efficient, using social media to connect with potential clients, or restructuring their firm to take advantage of a variety of…
Over a million icons are available in the Noun Project. Need an icon for that presentation, project, or website? Then the Noun Project is for you. Each icon can be downloaded as a PNG or SVG. Some icons are in the public domain and can be used as you wish, while others require attribution or have…
