ICYMI – More amazing posts from this past week:
- 12 Learning Myths Exposed: How You Can Learn the Right Way – Many people come to us searching for the answer to the question, “What’s the right way to learn?” First of all, we want to clarify: there is no right or wrong way to study…
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Emoji Bullet List – emoji bullet points for your lists
Create fancy lists that use emoji for bullet points. Your list, emojified!
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Can the Chronicling America site get any better? Yes. Yes, it can. | History Tech
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Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex | PLOS Biology
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Imagined speech can be decoded from low- and cross-frequency intracranial EEG features — Knight Lab
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Encoding and decoding analysis of music perception using intracranial EEG — Knight Lab
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Comparing Formative Assessment Tools – Teaching Forward
To make it easier for teachers to choose the best tool for the job, I’ve created the Formative Assessment Comparison Guide. There are so many great choices for teachers and students when it comes to free, engaging formative assessment games.
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An AI wrote this essay (and then I had to mark it) – Leon Furze
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Streets of My Town – Social Impact Game customised to local community.
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3 Ways A Plagiarism Checker Can Help Students – Class Tech Tips
Can a plagiarism checker actually help students? This type of tool can help student writers as they strengthen their craft and write better. What is flipped learning? Educational leaders and authors, Martha Ramirez and Carolina R.
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Generate unique SVG design assets | Haikei
Haikei is a web app to generate unique SVG shapes, backgrounds, and patterns – ready to use with your design tools and workflow. Free, no signups, no credit cards.
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For the last five or so years I’ve used Certify’em to automatically send certificates to students when they successfully complete a quiz in Google Forms. I also use it to issue certificates to participants in my workshops, webinars, and self-paced c…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Change Map Styles in Google Earth – And Why
The web version of Google Earth has improved a lot since its launch five years ago. One of those improvements is found in the number of ways that you can customize the map style displayed when you are viewing and creating projects in Google Earth.
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What Is the Metaverse’s Future in K-12 and Higher Ed?
While often eclipsed by artificial intelligence as an emerging technology modernizing education, AR/VR technology will play a key role in the development of interactive virtual environments known as “metaverses,” to enhance student learning.
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This Simple Nudge Can Get Students More Engaged in Online Courses | EdSurge News
When Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were first introduced about a decade ago, many higher education professionals viewed this new arrival as a gimmick.
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Teacher Takeaways From the Pandemic: What Worked? What Didn’t? (Opinion)
During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is Schools and the Coronavirus Crisis.
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Bill Gates just announced they are increasing their grantmaking from $6 billion to $9 billion each year, with a substantial chunk going to education (see Gates Foundation Adds $20 Billion to Its Coffers at The NY Times). Improving educational outcom…
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Minecraft’s esports revival: Is there a future for Minecraft esports? – Esports Insider
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100 Numbers to Get Students Talking – Sara VanDerWerf
UPDATE! (8.17.17) There are 3 new versions of this activity – scroll to the bottom for links/downloads. My friend Megan Schmidt (@veganmathbeagle) blogged this week about Making Groups Work using a task she got from me. She encouraged me to blog abo…
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People are becoming “disconnected from the botanical world” at a time when plants could help solve global environmental problems, warn a group of research scientists.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Google Forms Features Overlooked by New Users
Every year at about this time I start to get emails from people who are transitioning into using Google Workspace for Education for the first time.
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6 new findings about learning loss during the pandemic : NPR
How did the pandemic disrupt learning for America’s more than 50 million K-12 students? For two years, that question has felt immeasurable, like a phantom, though few educators doubted the shadow it cast over children who spent months struggling to …
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Covid learning loss has been a global disaster | The Economist
King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The eight-year-old has not set foot in a school since March 2020, when classrooms closed as a precaution against covi…
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“Techquity”: Going from Digital Poverty to Digital Empowerment – ASCD
During my classroom teaching career, one of my middle school students once pointed out that a common back-to-school assignment was classist, racist, and full of microaggressions.
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Plagiarism Flowchart – Citations Guide – LibGuides at Arapahoe Community College Library
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Booklist: End of Year Picture Book Read Aloudsÿfc – Pernille Ripp
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Words Matter: Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students | Cult of Pedagogy
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A Principal’s Reflections: Transitioning to a Transformational Mindset
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What makes a mosquito want to take a bite out of you : Goats and Soda : NPR
What makes a mosquito want to take a bite out of you? We know that mosquitoes are more attracted to the odor of mice infected with the parasite that carries malaria than to the aroma of healthy mice.
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Controversial Prehistoric Egg Identified To Be the Last of the “Demon Ducks of Doom”
Researchers identify ancient birds behind prehistoric giant eggs A years-long scientific controversy in Australia about what animal is the true mother of gigantic primordial eggs has been settled.
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