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When Tech Meets Project Based Learning | EdSurge News

Byryan June 25, 2016June 24, 2016

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 that project-based learning can happen without much technology. But use it right, he adds, and technology can change the “tone” of the classroom in powerful ways. “It asks teachers to give up ‘the script’ for the classroom,” he says.

Source: When Tech Meets Project Based Learning | EdSurge News

The article also includes 14 tools to use to support project based learning.

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ⓔ Two screens in the classroom

Byryan April 20, 2016

I’ve been experimenting this year with a two screen setup, one projector and one 70″ LCD TV. Instead of having the same content on both screens, I use a Chromecast in the TV along with the Chromecast extension in Google Chrome. Send one tab By default, the Chromecast extension wants to send one tab to…

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Using the Google Sheets API to monitor congressional voting

Byryan July 28, 2017July 27, 2017

There’s a common phrase among reporters: “The news never sleeps.” This is why many news outlets rely on cloud-based productivity tools like Google Docs and Sheets to share information, check facts and collaborate in real time. And The New York Times is no exception. In May 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a new health care law affecting millions…

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NASA eBooks, Comic, and Mac writing apps – Top 3 of the Week

Byryan October 7, 2018October 7, 2018

https://eduk8.me/2018/10/free-ebooks-from-nasa/ https://eduk8.me/2018/10/comic-teacher-simulator/ https://eduk8.me/2018/10/9-apps-and-tricks-for-writing-on-the-mac-from-makeuseof/

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The Pokémon Go Google Sheets and to the Library

Byryan July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

I then asked them about using Google Sheets and they looked at me that they didn’t know it could work that way. I asked them if they knew how to share a Google Sheet. They told me yes and I even asked if they knew how to embed a link. Which they were shocked to…

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“I think [coding] doesn’t actually teach important skills.”

Byryan December 22, 2018December 22, 2018

On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged children. These books are part of a flood of resources—summer coding camps, after-school code clubs, apps designed to teach kindergarteners the…

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Saving a website #tlah

Byryan June 12, 2014June 8, 2014

Sometimes when you are researching for a project, you’ll come across web resources that you would like to save. Now, you can bookmark it, or use a bookmarking service, but there is still a chance that when you go back to the site it may be gone (and archive.org) may not have a copy. To…

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