Student technology, fonts, and a a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/can-students-learn-with-technology/
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/browse-fonts-randomly-with-randofont/
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/comic-packing-for-vacation/
I was submerged in the cozy haze of smartphone addiction, and it’s hard to say how it differed from substance abuse. “Comfort kills, discomfort creates,” wrote Jean Cocteau in his personal account of opium detoxication. So, like someone trying to wean himself off a substance, I started experimenting with discomfort. That’s when I lost the Facebook and Twitter…
100 Educators to follow on Twitter – by state Keith O’Neal’s list of educators to follow, listed by state. ‘Let It Go’: A New Set of Classroom Management Strategies for the 21st Century A great list of classroom management tips. New messaging apps from Google – Allo and Duo Duo has been released, still waiting…
Thus far this is what I’ve found: The Future of Learning is going to be exciting and empowering for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. The Future of Learning is going to be scary for teachers, administrators, and parents (not students). Not sure what I mean? The classic technology paradox here is easier to understand with a…
https://eduk8.me/2020/01/comic-tech-savvy/ https://eduk8.me/2020/01/create-your-own-60s-cardboard-computer/ https://eduk8.me/2020/01/free-cc-licensed-sound-effects-and-music-from-gravity-sounds/
Delaying school start times has been universally touted as the answer to the growing epidemic of teenage sleep deprivation, but this common orthodoxy may be based in false ideas about how teen biological clocks really work. The argument for later start times hinges on the fact that teenagers prefer to go to bed and sleep in…