Category: Hacks
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Where in the World are the Best Schools and the Happiest Kids?
The best test scores don’t always mean the happiest kids at school. The Best Schools and the Happiest Kids visualizes the results from a worldwide survey of over 500,000 15-year-olds globally. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s triennial international survey compared test scores from 65 countries. Happiness was ranked based on the percentage of…
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Are We Still Teachers?
The next collaborative project between English and Information Technology is going to be this project from the NYTimes Learning Network: Student Contest | 15-Second Vocabulary Videos If we can fit this into CCSS, the deliverology we are mandated, collection of Data Team results, statistics for evaluations, new systems implementation, and everything else required this year.…
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Goal: Public Bike Repair Project
I am going to attempt to get a grant together for my school to have a Fixit for the kids. Great Idea! Where do I start? Keep cyclists rolling in your community by offering them the tools they most need when bikes need tuning. From our popular full-featured Fixit stand which includes the wrenches, screwdrivers,…
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Web Designer: Formal Degree or Self Taught
I think the current efforts and direction are doomed to fail to serve the learner. This article crossed Feedly an hour ago at lunch and I am using it in my Advanced Web Design class in 5 minutes. Without curating current material and integrating it “Just In Time” into teaching practices, will engagement flourish, will…