The Tech Edvocate’s 2017 List of 116 of the Best Teaching and Learning Apps - The Tech Edvocate *The Tech Edvocate is pleased to produce its “Best of the Best” resource lists. These lists provide our readers with rankings for edtech related blogs, twitter accounts, influencers, products, etc. These lists are meant to be fluid, and for that reason, they are regularly updated to provide up to the moment information.* Technology is changing the way we teach and learn at a rapid speed. One of the great aspects of having tablets, laptops, and desktops in the classroom is the availability educational apps. Virtual Reality Apps Star Chart – with over 20 million users this app brings the universe a little closer. Math Apps Prodigy Game – This app is free for teachers and aligns with math curriculum for grades 1-8. Assorted Teaching and Learning Apps Memrise– Learning languages can be a challenge for both young and old, but thankfully apps such as Memrise are here to help make it a whole lot easier. Teacher Communication Apps Movie Making Apps Study Skills Apps Science Apps Social Studies Apps
Marco Polo Timeline Marco Polo Timeline History Timelines of People provide fast facts and information about famous people in history, such as those detailed in the Marco Polo Timeline, who precipitated a significant change in World history. This historical timeline is suitable for students of all ages, children and kids. The timeline of Marco Polo details each important life event with related historical events and arranged in chronological, or date, order providing an actual sequence of the past major and important events in their life. The History timeline of famous people provides fast information via a time line which highlights the key dates and events of the life of famous people such as Marco Polo in a fast information format, a concise and and accurate life biography. The life of this major historical figure is arranged by chronological, or date order, providing an actual sequence of past events which were significant to this famous figure in history as detailed on the Marco Polo Timeline.
How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn? Take a look at this question: How do modern novels represent the characteristics of humanity? If you were tasked with answering it, what would your first step be? Would you scribble down your thoughts — or would you Google it? Terry Heick, a former English teacher in Kentucky, had a surprising revelation when his eighth- and ninth-grade students quickly turned to Google. “What they would do is they would start Googling the question, ‘How does a novel represent humanity?’ For those of us who grew up with search engines, especially Google, at our fingertips — looking at all of you millennials and post-millennials — this might seem intuitive. Now, with the advent of personal assistants like Siri and Google Now that aim to serve up information before you even know you need it, you don’t even need to type the questions. But with so much information easily available, does it make us smarter? More Space To Think Or Less Time To Think? ‘I’m Always On My Computer’ How To Teach Digital Natives?
10 fascinating Australian subcultures you had no idea existed | Guide Untold Australia begins tonight (Wednesdays at 8:30pm on SBS and on SBS On Demand) and it’s an in-depth look at some of the diverse ethnic and cultural groups nestled within the wider Aussie population. Over three weeks we meet with young Indian Australians on a race to the altar, Norfolk Islanders threatening mutiny and the super-secret Orthodox Jews of Adass Israel. In that spirit, let’s look at some much less conventional groups and subcultures that have sprung up in our nation, from the weird and wonderful to the – frankly - bizarre. 1. Sharpies The “Sharpies” were a youth gang of the 60’s and 70’s, widely considered the first home- grown Aussie subculture. 2. When you think of doomsday preppers you probably think of those nutso people in middle America storing canned goods in nuclear bunkers under their homes. 3. What is a furry? Yup. The subculture is about 80% straight male and members meet annually at “Anthrocon”, the international furry convention in Pennsylvania. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
What Kind of Country Do We Want? | by Marilynne Robinson In my odd solitude I stream the America of recent memory. The pretext for drama, in the foreground, seems always to be a homicide, but around and beyond the forensic stichomythia that introduces character and circumstance there is a magnificent country, a virtual heaven. In a dystopian future, children would surely ask what it was like to live in such a country. Candid memory would say, By no means as wonderful as it should have been, even granting the broad streaks of pain in its history. Before there was a viral crisis whose reality forced itself on our notice, there were reports of declines of life expectancy in America, rising rates of suicide, and other “deaths of despair.” This is surely evidence of another crisis, though it was rarely described as such. Here is the first question that must be asked: What have we done with America? Institutionalization may be less a factor here than inculcation. The minimum wage has become the amount an employer can get away with paying.
Categories Coming to you from the Canadian Maritimes ( Halifax), Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is an educational blog dedicated to curating, reviewing and sharing EdTech tools and mobile apps. The purpose is to help teachers and educators effectively integrate digital technologies into their day-to-day teaching, learning and professional development. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, editor and blog owner, Med Kharbach at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Med Kharbach is a doctoral researcher and a former teacher with 10 years of classroom teaching experience. Kharbach, M. Example: Kharbach, M. (2016, December 30). 9 Fundamental digital skills for 21st century teachers [Blog post].
Marco Polo – Silk Road Traveler and Explorer A well-known traveler and explorer, Marco Polo headed for China along the Silk Road in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). The Travels of Marco Polo, dictated by him, described Chinese politics, economy, and culture in detail, which greatly aroused the desire of westerner to go to China and had a great effect on the European navigation. Marco Polo was born in a merchant family in Venice in 1254. His father and uncle often traded into the west coast of Mediterranean Sea. On one fortuitous occasion, they went to China and met with Kublai Khan, an emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Young Marco Polo was very interested in listening to the stories of their travels and made up his mind to go to China. Long and Difficult Journey to China In 1271, when he was 17 years old his dream came true. 17-years Service in Kublai Khan's Court Clever Marco Polo quickly learned Mongolian, Chinese and became familiar with the Chinese customs. 17 years passed quickly and Marco Polo missed his hometown more and more.
Americans' opinions on privacy and information sharing Many Americans say they might provide personal information, depending on the deal being offered and how much risk they face Most Americans see privacy issues in commercial settings as contingent and context-dependent. A new Pew Research Center study based on a survey of 461 U.S. adults and nine online focus groups of 80 people finds that there are a variety of circumstances under which many Americans would share personal information or permit surveillance in return for getting something of perceived value. For instance, a majority of Americans think it would be acceptable (by a 54% to 24% margin) for employers to install monitoring cameras following a series of workplace thefts. Nearly half (47%) say the basic bargain offered by retail loyalty cards – namely, that stores track their purchases in exchange for occasional discounts – is acceptable to them, even as a third (32%) call it unacceptable. The nearby chart runs down the six different scenarios that were examined in this study.
Juvenile delinquency, welfare, justice and therapeutic interventions: a global perspective newstatesman According to the government, we are now supposed to be getting back to work. But what does “work” mean in the time of Covid-19? Amid the debates about how we might return to work, what is being forgotten is that work is a crucial part of what the 20th-century political philosopher Hannah Arendt called the human condition. The government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy, published on 11 May, states that people will be “eased back into work” as into a dentist chair: carefully, and with face masks. The reason they need to be coaxed is, of course, the economy. Arendt would not have been surprised by this commonplace personification. In her 1958 book, The Human Condition, Arendt suggested we think again. Arendt’s vita activa has three components: labour, work and action. Labouring is simply what we do to survive. Work, on the other hand, gives collective meaning to what we do. In short, what we work at makes up the human reality that we all share.
Teaching with"APP"-itude! □ - Blog #2 This is the SECRET to my success...Seriously, it has changed my WHOLE classroom. I download all my products from Teachers Pay Teachers on my iPad. Whatever I plan to use for the week, I download into my iBooks. I take screenshots of the things I need and will use for the week. They are in my photos for me to use whenever I need to send them to students via AIRDROP or to put them into different time-saving apps that I use. These first two tips alone will change your life and will save you from running to the copy machine. The four apps that we use each and everyday are all free. Seesaw allows me to communicate with my parents, see all assignments, and grade projects at home. EPIC! This next incredible app is Classkick. For more information about this app, contact me or go to This is the app that I have used the most in the 6 years that I have had iPads. I didn't learn all of these wonderful things overnight.
plot-analysis Exposition Out of the Incubator Because of all his medical issues, ten-year-old August Pullman has always been home schooled. Auggie has been loved, nurtured, and protected, but now that he is older and stronger (both physically and emotionally), his parents recognize that it is time for him to face the world. Rising Action Into the Fire So Auggie starts fifth grade, the first year of middle school at Beecher Prep. Jack and Charlotte are nice enough, but Julian can't handle Auggie's uh, non-traditional appearance. Kids at school get used to Auggie's face, but that doesn't mean they accept him—a "game" called the Plague makes Auggie untouchable. And as Jack learns to see the Auggie beneath the face, he realizes what a good friend Auggie is. At least, that's what Auggie thinks. Complication Et Tu, Brute? A series of unexpected snafus on the morning of Halloween results in Auggie wearing an alternate costume, which makes him doubly incognito. Jack is bewildered and upset when Auggie dumps him.
More Than A Quarter-Million Ask Google To Be Forgotten NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Mona Chalabi of FiveThirtyEight.com about the "right to be forgotten" — requests to Google to remove evidence of one's digital footprint from the search engine. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Fifty-two. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Four-hundred-and-fifty-three. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Twenty-five. Time for some number crunching from our data expert Mona Chalabi from fivethirtyeight.com. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: Two-hundred-and-eighty-thousand. MARTIN: That is the total number of requests people have made to Google asking the search engine to remove Web pages about them from its searches. MONA CHALABI, BYLINE: Hi, Rachel. MARTIN: Let's start with a very basic question first, Mona. CHALABI: Kind of. MARTIN: And are all those requests - 280,000 - those are all coming from Europe because we can't do that here in the states, right? MARTIN: All right. CHALABI: Because it was this week that the British newspaper The Guardian found data that Google never intended to publish. MARTIN: OK.