Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2023
Here are some websites students will enjoy to enrich the day: Discovering Pi with Google Sheets Find your Pi Day- -where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi?
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2023
Here are some websites students will enjoy to enrich the day: Discovering Pi with Google Sheets Find your Pi Day- -where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi?
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 11, 2022
Here are some websites students will enjoy to enrich the day: Discovering Pi with Google Sheets. The first World Maths Day was held on March 14, 2007 (also Pi Day), and has ever since been held occasionally on the 1st Wednesday in March. Find your Pi Day- -where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi? Created by Wolfram.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 12, 2021
Here are some websites students will enjoy to enrich the day: Discovering Pi with Google Sheets. The first World Maths Day was held on March 14, 2007 (also Pi Day), and has ever since been held occasionally on the 1st Wednesday in March. Find your Pi Day- -where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi? Created by Wolfram.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 12, 2020
If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. In 2007, with our colleague and friend Ian Pumpian, we founded Health Sciences High and Middle College, an award-winning open-enrollment public school in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.
Shake Up Learning
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The post How to Edit Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this post, I will show you how to edit Microsoft Office files in Google Drive! So below I have detailed How to Edit Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive. How to Edit Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive. Click To Tweet.
EdTechTeacher
MAY 18, 2023
Did you know that… Tom’s wife is an amazing educator (High School Science 🔬) in RI, and they have two children (Blake & Lydia) that spend most of their weekends in a gym or on a field of some sort… 🤸♀️️⚽️ Tom was captain of Vassar College’s NCAA basketball team in 2006-2007.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 14, 2023
By definition, a portfolio, according to Arter and Spandel, ‘is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits to the student, or others, her efforts or achievement in one or more areas’ (cited in Baki and Birgin, 2007, p. This interconnectedness makes it a seamless option for students already engaged in the Google ecosystem.
Edsurge
AUGUST 10, 2017
That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Digital platforms like Seesaw or Google Classroom could facilitate this beautifully, allowing kids to snap pictures of their meals to include in their journal. Interactive Storyboard : Kids can rearrange digital ‘cards’ that feature key elements of the story, like the caterpillar, the moon, and various foods.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 7, 2019
If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. His first book titled, The Principal’s Leadership Sourcebook: Practices, Tools, and Strategies for Building a Thriving School Community was published by Scholastic in the fall of 2007. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.
Shake Up Learning
MAY 19, 2020
The post 10 Ways Google Certification Can Support Remote Learning – SULS063 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Sink or swim, teachers and educators across the globe have clung to tools like Google Classroom and Google Meet to survive school closures and remote learning. I don’t work for Google. Check it out here.
Edsurge
JULY 14, 2018
In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 9, 2023
More recently, Marzano’s research in The Art and Science of Teaching (2007) reconfirmed that asking students to identify similarities and differences through comparative analysis leads to eye-opening gains in student achievement. Clearly, this is a seminal skill. I hope they can convince me they have a better approach than I do.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Now, we’re not just talking about Googling an answer to a quick question. Daniel Russell’s research on how to search like a Google scientist is eye-opening in this context. A study by Rohrer and Taylor in 2007 validated this strategy. Today, we’re exploring the concept of self-directed learning strategies.
Edsurge
APRIL 12, 2018
In October 2007, Larry Berger, then chief executive of Wireless Generation and his colleague, David Stevenson, a Wireless Gen vice president, gave a presentation at the American Enterprise Institute conference about why entrepreneurs faced formidable obstacles in building technology for schools and districts. Stay tuned.)
eSchool News
JANUARY 8, 2024
Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. Traditionalists see this and immediately think that students are taking a shortcut, much like when Google became prevalent at the turn of the century and people guffawed at the fact that students didn’t use their Encyclopedia Britannica anymore.
NeverEndingSearch
MAY 14, 2020
Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 18, 2023
This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. In a landmark study of barriers to using edtech effectively published in 2007, researchers Khe Foon Hew and Thomas Brush argued that internal and external barriers must be addressed together.
The Electric Educator
MARCH 30, 2011
Google has become notorious for its April 1st shenanigans. Here''s a list of their pranks from the past few years: 2000: Google Mental Plex (search using mental telepathy) 2002: Pigeon Rank (the secret to Google''s search algorithm is trained pigeons) 2004: Google Copernicus Center (apply for a job at Google''s newest office-- on the moon!)
Educational Technology Guy
MAY 17, 2012
There is an online archive of the Mini-Page from 1969-2007. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Many of us remember the Mini-Page - the educational, fun-to-read insert in many newspapers. The Mini-Page was a four-page weekly feature that covered a different topic each week with puzzles, articles, pictures, and more.
The Thinking Stick
MARCH 5, 2015
Google Maps has been out for 10 years now. In 2007…8 years ago now… Apple put a map in our pocket. With that in mind here are 10 ways you could use Google Maps in the classroom. Google Sightseeing blog: View some of the great images from around the world. Latitude Longitude Scavenger Hunts. Earth Picker.
Educational Technology Guy
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Feb 26, 8:00 PM Eastern Join Milliken Award (2007) winner Sherry Crofut in a rousing discussion on personalizing student learning in the era of test score madness, tight budgets, and education technology transformation. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Register and/or learn More. Customized, Personalized Learning: Is it Inevitable?
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Three major life events occurred for me in 2007 that sparked my idea to start an ed-tech company: The Internet decimated the textbook industry and I realized I needed to reinvent my business. The work was highly satisfying, as we helped them revise and create new educational products, from concept and writing to design and production.
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 27, 2021
Apple sold more than 40 million iPhones in 2019 and more than two billion since its launch in 2007. Remember Google Glass? It was what the name suggested it might be—Matrix-style glasses that allow Google to stream information directly to your eyes via a heads-up display on the glasses. And Google Glass changed even less.)
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
Cross-post from Anderson EdTech Over the weekend of January 28-29, I attended the EdTechTeam's Las Vegas Google Summit. In my defense, I had her in the 2007-2008 school year, so it had been a long time since I had seen her. The last session that I attended was on the various Google certification program.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 30, 2018
In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization’s pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. ISKME’s integration services include integrations with learning management systems, Clever, Google Classroom, and other systems.
Dr. Shannon Doak
OCTOBER 24, 2018
A Google Doc can be saved as a PDF. The second way to save a Google Doc as a PDF is to choose this option when printing the Google Doc. Students can then use Google Docs to create their eBooks and then save the file as a PDF. in September 2007. Chromebooks can create PDF’s in multiple ways.
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 1, 2011
When I became the Principal at New Milford High School in 2007 I felt that it was extremely important to communicate with various stakeholders (parents, BOE members, Central Office, staff, etc.) Milan''s students as they collected their information and stored it in a Google Document. all of the great things going on at the school.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad. In 2015, the average state spending per student was $1,805 which was 20% lower than the average state spending per student in 2007-08. So how bad is public funding for higher education?
The Thinking Stick
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
The things we have tried, the failures, the successes and how a little conference that was suppose to be a one off in 2007 in Shanghai, China has turned into a yearly conference that sells out in a matter of months and is slowly spreading….is Continue to innovate: Students try on Google Glass for the first time. I pinch myself.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
JULY 21, 2013
According to the infographic, Chris Messina first suggested using hashtags for Twitter groups in 2007. Tumblr followed later that year, Instagram started using hashtags in 2010, Google Plus hopped on the bandwagon in 2011, and Flickr barely beat out Facebook to avoid last place in 2013.
Learning with 'e's
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
The user generated content currently available on the web has been criticised for its inconsistent quality (Carr, 2010) and its potential to encourage plagiarism, piracy and a host of other nefarious practices (Keen, 2007). 2007) University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age. References Brabazon, T. Brabazon, T.
Learning with 'e's
JANUARY 1, 2013
This perspective is championed by Nicholas Carr (2011), who provocatively argues that habituated use of search tools such as Google is 'making us stupid'. In his original publication, Andrew Keen (2007), was adamant that the Internet is undermining the authority of academics and is a threat to our culture and society. London: W.
EdTechTeam
JUNE 15, 2017
Seems a bit ridiculous right, since you know you can make a much better presentation using PowerPoint, Google Slides, ThingLink, iMovie, etc. Example of “menu” I originally used in 2007 Students would choose projects that equalled the number of points on the menu. And your talents can be showcased in a much better way.
Education Superhighway
AUGUST 9, 2018
They also had smart boards, laptops, Google Classroom, and all sorts of subscriptions to student online resources. This school also has laptops available and Google Classroom, but not smart boards. They search for articles using trusted sources, including Google Scholar, and they reach out to experts on their research topic online.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 23, 2015
Google him you guys. Google “Jane Makeup” The woman is amazing! Top edublogs – August 2007. My face was drawn today by an NXT powered lego robot. The inventor who designed these things was: Danny. He is Italian, married, and internet famous! “Danny from Lego” 7. I got my makeup done by: Jane!
edWeb.net
MAY 1, 2020
A 2007 study found that executive functions are more critical for school readiness than is IQ or entry-level reading or math. Executive Function Enablers and Deficits. The post Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture appeared first on edWeb.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 3, 2024
Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. This knowledge helps in preparing students for a future where AI will be a significant part of many industries and professions. Retrieved from [link]. Griffo, V.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Rohrer, D., & Taylor, K.
Learning with 'e's
MAY 15, 2014
For the traditionalists, tools such as Google and other digital media are not to be completely trusted or relied upon, and some even consider them a distraction from the real business of learning, or question the veracity of their content. 2007) The University of Google: Education in a (Post) Information Age. Brabazon, T.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
In 2007, a trio of Harvard researchers found that “even 10 days of teacher absences can have an impact.reducing, for example, students’ math achievement by 3.3 Maybe you would have a worksheet or two to complete, a video to watch, a study hall, or a substitute teacher who would try to corral the class through an activity.
techlearning
MAY 8, 2018
First published in 2007, Kinney has since sold more than 200 million copies of his books following the journey of middle schooler, Greg Heffley. a leading provider of online collaborative writing solutions and a Google for Education Partner. This year, he also wrote the story start for The Writing Bee’s qualifying rounds.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School. 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller. Ditch that Textbook by Matt Miller.
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