Starting the school year, a meme, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/7-things-to-do-to-start-the-school-year/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/students-start-out-early-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/pd-or-planning-comic/
“Rather than consider noncognitive capacities as skills to be taught, I [have come] to conclude, it’s more accurate and useful to look at them as products of a child’s environment. There is certainly strong evidence that this is true in early childhood; we have in recent years learned a great deal about the effects that…
Yet another reason to limit Facebook use… Fake news feeder. College admissions – 7 giveaways of student social media use What do college admissions officials look at in a perspective student’s social media feed? Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons – your complete guide Hopefully will answer all of you questions about copyright!
Almost 20 years ago, when Paul Curtis was a social studies teacher at the just-opened New Technology High School in Napa, Calif., there wasn’t much “tech” to support project-based learning. “We didn’t even give the kids email addresses back then,” he chuckles. Even now, Curtis, Director of Curriculum for the New Tech Network, is confident…
As John Green explains in this video, a few people are actually getting much better at the NES version of Tetris than anyone was back in the 90s. One of the reasons for this is that a smaller dedicated group working together can be more effective than a massive group of people working alone on…
Increasingly, though, I am uncomfortable with the distinction we casually make between “pro” users and “regular” users. I don’t think these sorts of utilities are useful just for computer nerds. (There’s another category we should leave behind us.) I think they’re useful for everybody. Put another way: we’re all “pro” users. I want to…
This is part 2 of 13 things to do before the first day of school A Google Voice number is a great way to communicate with parents, without having to give out your personal home or cellphone number. With a Google Voice, you control what phones ring when the number is called, when phones will…