50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar. But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. And unlike some lists you may have seen, which try to name the very "best" websites, but end up just telling you a lot of stuff you already know, we've chosen instead to highlight 50 of our favorite sites that fly under most people's radar. Think of it as the Maximum PC blog roll (remember those?). You might have heard of some of these sites, but we'll bet you haven't heard of all them. Demoscene.tv See What Can Be Done with 4 Kilobytes If you’re any kind of nerd at all, you probably know about the demoscene, where talented programmers create complex videos rendered in real-time, stored in incredibly small files. lite.Facebook.com Clutter-Free Social Networking You can admit it. Soyouwanna.com
Patches – Explore, Create and Publish VR on the Web The Incredible Times: A News & Media Literacy Game Presented by Eisha Buch, Senior Manager of Education Programs, Common Sense Education Hosted by Common Sense Education and Sponsored by Symantec If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate, join the Digital Learning & Leadership community and go to the CE Quizzes link in the Community Toolbox. Watch the team at Common Sense Education to get a sneak peek at an exciting new online game launching soon! In this edWebinar, Eisha Buch, Senior Manager of Education Programs for Common Sense Education, unveils The Incredible Times, a free game for exploring the topic of misinformation in an engaging way by introducing and sparking critical conversations around news literacy. In this session, explore the key learning objectives of the game and different ways it can be implemented in your classroom in conjunction with other Common Sense Digital Citizenship resources. Eisha demonstrates the game for us as well. About the Presenter
Drag and Drop Mobile App Builder for iOS and Android Free Email Address Search | Two Ways To Search For Email Addresses Five Ways to Create Mind Maps and Flowcharts Online Earlier this week Tony Vincent Tweeted an excellent graphic that he made to show the process of creating a flowchart in Google Drawings. Tony's graphics are always top notch and this one was not an exception to that rule. Check it out. — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) June 18, 2018 For those who would like a video overview of how to make a flowchart or mind map in Google Drawings, I have one for you. You can do a similar thing in Google Slides and in PowerPoint. Connected Mind is a free mind mapping tool that you can use in your web browser and is also available as an iOS app and as an Android app. Finally, Padlet offers a nice feature that will let you collaboratively create flowcharts.
Foiling Fake News Made by Tech-Kim & Ms. Fitz Students, teachers, anyone connected to the internet is already running on information overload and now fake news has us all questioning our most trusted sources. So how can we best prepare students to grow to become independent online consumers in this snap-judgement world of social media link-sharing? We created this teaching kit as a companion to our article, Supermoons Cause Tidal Waves—True or False? Web Literacy Skills 21st Century Skills Tags fake news hacking web literacy computer science Learning Objectives Audience 4th grade and up 45-60 minutes Kraken the Code is an activity shared by Mozilla focused on the Reading the Web section of their Web Literay map.
Codeable Crafts Review for Teachers The best thing about Codeable Crafts is how easy it is to create a short, simple animated story. Kids need only to drag simple, puzzle-shaped coding blocks together in different ways to experiment with programming concepts like movement, repetition, and more. They can also just have fun telling a story. Kids create their characters from a nice set of whimsical geometric animal templates. Codeable Crafts gives young kids a good introduction to programming, but there are a few downsides. Future of geo-spatial technology In 2020, the location-based service market is a $1.3 trillion industry.* In 2020, use of geo-location data, including GPS, generates $500 billion in consumer value. Geographer jobs grow 35 percent per annum, while those of cartographers and photogrammetrists grow 22 percent between 2010 and 2020 Location becomes an integral dimension of data, allowing information patterns and decisions to be viewed through the lens of place. See: The power of zoom See: Beyond the bars See : Gov on the go Geospatial technology in 2020: *”Location Based Services – Market and Technology Outlook – 2013-2020,” Market Info Group LLC, **”Implications of the ICT Skills Gap for the Mobile Industry,” MacLeod Consulting, Now let’s hear from you.
Home - Barefoot Computing Barefoot Computing Supermoons Cause Tidal Waves—True or False? Our news literacy program challenges fourth graders to find out. “Last week scientists at NASA announced that they will send a manned spacecraft to the moon by the year 2018.” “Supermoons can trigger tidal waves and catastrophic earthquakes.” “A rare liger cub with a lion dad and tigress mother was born in Russia.” For years, it has been considered best practice to teach students to evaluate online resources for their validity. Fourth graders at St. Most middle grade students, with enough time and coaching, can proudly spot the fake article regarding Christopher Columbus’s trip to America or tell you when a headline is more science fiction than real science. Using Mozilla’s X-Ray Goggles tool, students use code to rewrite a news headline on Newslea.com. Our idea was to approach the subject of fake news with students before they reached the age of browsing social media independently with their cell phones and laptops (typically around fifth or sixth grade) making them confident and educated digital users from the start. Week one Week two The truth?
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