Start Creating
How to be a Doer. Source: Stop Consuming. Start Creating. – The Mission – Medium There is no shortage of articles promoting creation over consumption! This is a good thing.
Use conditional formatting in Google Sheets to analyze data and grades
Use conditional formatting in Google Sheets to analyze data and grades. After a formative assessment, you can use a Google Sheet to analyze student performance on individual items on the assessment. This will allow you to spot trends in the students answers, to which you’ll need to investigate what students answered the way they did…
Web Maker, glibness, and the micro:bit – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2017/08/web-maker-great-playground-web-developers/ https://eduk8.me/2017/08/combating-glibness/ https://eduk8.me/2017/08/first-look-microbit-single-board-computer-classroom/
What states can learn about teacher shortages from the airline industry
On the one hand, we’re told, robots are coming to take all our jobs any day now. But then there are 6 million job openings in the U.S., and large companies in a range of industries are telling us they are running out of humans to perform labor. The reality, of course, is somewhere in between….
Combating glibness
Glibness is a disease that’s particularly virulent in Silicon Valley, politics, entertainment and the executive suite. Someone has an insight (or gets lucky) and then amasses power. Surrounded by more than they’re willing to understand, they substitute the glib statement, the smirk, the cutting remark. They turn everything into a status-fueled professional wrestling match. Source:…
How MIT’s Scratch is embracing mobile and adding classroom management
Developers at MIT Media Lab are gearing up to release a new version of Scratch that works on mobile devices, can be integrated with physical objects, and that is lighter and faster. Source: MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity | MindShift | KQED News The block programming of Scratch is used…
Web Maker is a great playground for web developers
Web Maker is a great playground for web developers. If you teach web design, then you’ll want to check out Web Maker. It’s a tool that you or students can use to learn html, css, and javascript, by showing the results of changes in real time. Web Maker is an offline app for Google Chrome. Launching the…
Internet celebrity summer camp for kids
This is the inaugural year for SocialStar Creator Camp, an offshoot of an actor camp that takes place every summer near LA. It’s three days of intensive influencer workshops focusing on monetization, branding, and the basics of shooting and editing video, all aimed at kids in their early teens to mid-20s. At first, the idea…
Another look at creating vs consuming on mobile
There are two pretty basic problems with this line of thinking. First, the idea that you cannot create on a smartphone or tablet assumes both that the software on the new device doesn’t change and that the nature of the work won’t change. Neither are good assumptions. You begin by making the new tool fit the…
First look at the micro:bit, a single board computer for the classroom
First look at the micro:bit, a single board computer for the classroom. I first wrote about the micro:bit in 2016, but since it wasn’t available in the United States, I didn’t have one to play with and promptly forgot about it. This past week I was reminded about it after reading an article from the…