France smartphone policy, creating ebooks, and a comic – Top 3 for the week
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{Edtech Tools} 12 more ways for students to create ebooks
Children have an amazing imagination! A powerful way to motivate children to read and write is by getting them to animate their stories in a digital storybook. Web tools digitally preserve stories and make it easy for learners to share with peers and family members. Source: 12 Web Tools and Apps for Children to Create Digital…
{Edtech Tool} Create comics with Toondoo
Source: Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons – Toondoo This is a pretty cool tool, the big downside is that it will create students to create accounts.
{Edtech} Sploder allows teachers and students to create video games
Source: Sploder – Make your own Games, Play Free Games Before learning Scratch, Sploder could be a good introduction to game programming for students. There are 5 types of games that can be created, and one, Retro Arcade, has a version that runs on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. To save and share games, students will…
Students can create multimedia ebooks with these 5 tools
Writing a multimedia ebook or magazine can be a good way for students to illustrate and or further explain portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they develop. Multimedia publishing tools that include a collaboration component can further help students as they work together with each other or with you to improve their work. Source: Free…
Create interactive stories for the Google Home and Google Home Mini with Story Speaker
Story Speaker lets anyone create talking, interactive stories with no coding required. Just write your story in a Google Doc, push a button, and every Google Home device linked to your account can play it, instantly. Source: Story Speaker by Mike Lacher & Nicole He – Voice Experiments This is very, very cool!
France smartphone policy for kids
French children won’t be allowed to bring their phones into classrooms starting in September. The Guardian reports that while kids can still bring their phones into their schools, the devices have to stay locked away until the end of the day. This will apply to kids starting at the age of six and will last until they’re around…
Infographics, Facebook, and New Years Resolutions – Top 3 for the week
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Should college degrees be required for middle skill level jobs?
American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that these college-educated employees would be smarter, more productive, and more engaged than workers without a degree….