EdTech

[ad_1] Greetings from Maine where I’m writing this with the help of a generator. No, not an AI-powered writing generator. The power is out and I’m running a “portable” electric…

[ad_1] Next weekend I’m taking final exams for the first time since Clinton was in office. (If you missed the news, I’m a full-time student again). This has given me an…

[ad_1] This week is Hour of Code week organized by Code.org. They’re joined by just about every company that makes some kind of learn-to-code product in offering short activities designed to introduce…

[ad_1] When I started teaching there were some websites on which you might find a lesson plan, but they were few and far between. So there were more times than…

[ad_1] This year’s emergence of AI-powered tools for education reminds me a bit of the emergence of Web 2.0 tools fifteen years ago. Back then there were a lot of…

[ad_1] This week is Geography Awareness Week. It’s my favorite non-holiday week of the year. Don’t stop reading because you’re not a geography teacher. As I hope you’ll see by…

[ad_1] With my recent work in Maynooth University (MU) in Ireland and my ten years of refining and teaching the courses we offer in the MAET program at Michigan State…

[ad_1] In my course on making and teaching with animated explanations I provide in-depth explanations of that process and why it is helpful in remembering key terms and concepts. I also provide…

[ad_1] This week I was going to just write about Halloween and how to create comic strips in Canva. Here’s the video about how to do that. But last week was a…

[ad_1] As one of my friends who teaches 4th grade said to me last week, we’ve entered the part of the school year in which “we’re really in it.” What…