Integrity, learning, and maps – Top 3 for the week
Students can practice integrity with these four tools Want to learn something new every day? Check out Curiosity 1,600 high resolution National Park maps available for free download
Creating a student-centered school in Birmingham Covington
A group of middle school students in full beekeeping gear examines one of the hives their school keeps in the woods nearby. “Ooh, there’s honey!” says one excitedly. “I see nectar!” says another. These eager fifth and sixth graders from Birmingham Covington, a public magnet school in suburban Michigan focused on science and technology, are…
Peergrade automates peer grading of assignments
Peergrade is a free platform to be used for peer grading of assignments. Students upload or link to their classwork. This classwork can be in any format. Peergrade then automatically distributes a students work to their peers, who can then assess the work according to your rubric. The teacher gets a report for the class, while each student…
What is literature for?
Source: What is literature for? It saves you times, it speeds up time. What can’t literature do?
1,600 high resolution National Park maps available for free download
This site currently has 1,612 free high-resolution national park maps to view, save, and download. Source: National Park Maps | NPMaps.com – just free maps, period. Via: A huge collection of high-res National Park maps A great source of maps for classrooms studying map reading, national parks, land features, and more!
“Imprisoned by our own need for amusement”
It wasn’t Nineteen Eighty-Four that had the most to say about the America of the 1980s, but rather Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “In Huxley’s vision,” Postman noted, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history.” Instead: “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that…
Pink Trombone is an interactive speech synthesizer
Interactive articulatory speech synthesizer Source: Chrome Experiments – Pink Trombone by Neil Thapen For all of the speech pathologists and vocal coaches out there comes the Pink Trombone. It is an interactive speech synthesizer where the user modifies the tongue, pitch, and lip position to create sounds. A great way to visualize what is going…
Why integrated education is a win for every student
Like most things that don’t favor the richest and most privileged in the world, the future of public education for disabled students in America is currently under threat. With an attorney general who has been vehemently opposed to the concept of putting disabled students in general classrooms, and an education secretary who is, at best,…
Highlights from Tuesday’s Microsoft Education Event
On May 2nd, Microsoft held an education focused event to announce several initiatives. During the presentation they discussed several new and upcoming products aimed at the educational sector. Windows 10 S Windows 10 S is a limited version of Windows that may be of interested to school districts looking at Windows devices. Limited may be…
Edutopia’s Open Educational Resources (OER)
Explore this educator’s guide to open educational resources for information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open alternatives to textbooks. Source: Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup | Edutopia Open Educational Resources (OER) are resources that can be used in the classroom for free. They are published under licenses…