Tag: Students
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
A book I just checked out of the library to read (recommendation from a student in class). Click on the Amazon Look Inside link and depending on the book, your account, etc.. you can often read a few pages of it.
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Hacktoberfest 2017
I had my IB students sign up for Hacktoberfest which is open to everyone in the global community! The learning target was to learn how to participate in the global open source software development community. Seen here, the first student with a shirt awarded for making four pull requests between October 1–31 in any timezone.…
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Make Sure Your Child Has A Job
This article on the link of your child having a job and being successful in high school and college was covered in a recent Professional Development. Ostensibly an AVID assignment, it appears to have been chosen to provide a discussion point for a class. Young people who have held jobs are better students because they…
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Students: Get Free Developer Tools Through GitHub
It pays to be a student. via readwrite Hacking new technologies can be time-consuming … and expensive. So to help students create technical projects or learn how to use new tools, social coding site GitHub and a handful of technology partners have created theGitHub Student Developer Pack that provides access to 14 developer tools for…
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Study Everywhere
Quizlet is used almost daily by 12 million people but you’ve never heard of it unless you have a high school student. It’s a cloud-based flash card app. Quizlet works for whatever you want to study and I am investigating to look at for one of my classes. It is easy and fast to add…