Managing that change in a Making context that encompasses digital tools, hands-on construction, creation and interaction allows students to learn and create new knowledge experientially. It gives them the ability to conceptualize new ideas and invent solutions for unexpected problems. Source: 4 Tools to Merge the Digital and Physical in Your Maker Classroom | EdSurge…
After posting yesterday, I played around with running Android apps on my Chromebook last night. To minimize the glitches, I found that not changing the configuration of the Chromebook after launching the app runs the app the best. What do I mean by that? I mean, don’t flip the screen around or rotate the screen…
So while every model has a date, the vast majority of them aren’t “official”, meaning support could extend beyond those dates. So far, the only two devices to have been “Officially announced” are the CR-48 (December 2015), and the Samsung Series 5 (June 2016), and remember the CR-48 is still receiving updates. So even official…
With the latest update to ChromeOS today, Google has added the Play store to Asus Flip Chromebook. I’ve been spending the last couple of hours playing with it, and here is what I’ve found out so far. First, though, if you want to try it out on your Flip, you’ll need to switch to the…
If this is really what we believe, perhaps it is time for us to re-examine book journaling. I have read the stories of kids ‘hating’ reading because they have to record what they are reading and when they are reading it (book logs). I totally understand how when a ‘want to’ becomes a ‘have to’…
The components in the model are by no means exhaustive – I acknowledge there are many more literacies, some of which are emergent due to new technologies and services. What I have attempted here is to represent what I consider to be the most important, or most regularly observed literacies and try to place them…
Axiom is a Chrome application that can organize your digital media plus annotate and collaborate with them. The service can be used to collect documents, including multimedia, for various uses, such as collecting homework or brainstorming ideas by marking up the documents or multimedia. There is a free level which allows you to store 10…
We’ve been previewing Google Springboard and the new Google Sites with a small set of customers, and we’re excited to begin to extend each of these new apps to more customers through an Early Adopter Program. Source: Google Apps update alerts: Powering a more connected and collaborative enterprise Google Springboard sounds like Google Now, except…
On Monday, my PocketCHIP arrived! What is a PocketCHIP? It is a touchscreen and keyboard device for the CHIP $9 single board computer that also provides a battery and external access to the input/output pins on the CHIP. In the simplest terms, anything that you would do with a Raspberry Pi you can do with a CHIP,…
Data-driven instruction is one of those buzzwords in today’s educational landscape. We hear all about data, but if your experience is anything like mine, you’ve never really been trained to do much with it. Sure, we give pre-assessments and set goals for post-assessments, growth, and student success, but it often feels like we’re doing so…