Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week. Apps Microsoft Word has a hidden transcription tool – here’s where to find it | BGR – It’s in the web app version, not the desktop app. Pedagogy…
Ed photos for the week Thoroughly enjoy this : teacherhumor I think this every time… : teacherhumor “This one is for…” Forgive yourself Teacher: You canât hear images! Me: : Minecraft Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset STEM is not just robots and rockets⌠Math word problems
Christmas break is the most wonderful time of the year for students, right? Not for all of them. As teachers, we know that many students dread the thought of Christmas break. They may feel like they have nothing to look forward to or worry about not being able to get through the break without their…
Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Google Workspace Updates: Collaborate with colleagues in Google Slides through a new âFollowâ feature – The follow feature lets collaborators easily keep track of edits in real…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In G. K. Chesterton.s 1929 book The Thing, he writes: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I once gave a talk titled “Using technology to procrastinate”. An idea that I have used since my sophomore year in high school. We had a big research paper due, and it had…
Thinking takes real effort. It requires sustained attention. Scientists have known for some time that focusing your mind consumes considerable metabolic resources. But in our day-to-day lives, we discount the effort needed to pay attention and think because it doesnât feel as physically strenuous as, say, lifting a 50-pound weight. Source: To Avoid Thinking Hard, We Will Endure…
So we now can work in teams despite being continental distances away from each other but we do have to acquire the skills to do that. And if we fail to do so, that has a rather grave disadvantage, which is that… Nothing has as dire an impact on productivity as poor communications. This is a truism that applies…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The curse of knowledge is a relatively new idea, being coined in 1989. It is a state where a person with knowledge has problems putting themselves into the shoes of people without the…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In honor of Star Wars Day, I decided to dig out a presentation I did in 2014. It was entitled Star Wars: A New Teacher, and I laid out everything that Star Wars has…