Last night during dinner one of my daughters asked, "what does ok mean?" My other daughter quickly followed up with, "yeah, why do we say that?" The first question we were able to answer fairly quickly and in a way that a five-year-old can understand....
If you have English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom and are wondering how to best support them, you’re in the right place! You can help better keep ELLs engaged in classroom conversations when you prepare them with these simple scaffolds. This doesn’t take a lot of...
Turn on any financial news network like CNBC these days and you're likely to hear some discussion about inflation and concerns about recession. Even if your students aren't listening to those stories, they might be hearing about them from their parents or perhaps in your...
Twice in the last 24 hours I've been asked about options for removing choices from Google Forms as they get used up. The tool that I used to recommend was Choice Eliminator (the original and version 2). It seems that add-on has been removed from...
The other day a reader sent me an interesting question that I hadn't thought about before. That was whether or not you can use Canva's recording studio with Google Slides. At first I thought to myself, "why not just make a screen recording of the...
Here are a pair of tweets for ya. So true… Related Posts Technological change is destined to be resisted by the teachers unions School is tests and credits. Learning is ‘getting it.’ The President is calling 4 Shifts Video Series: Looking for some pilot schools or districts...
I have some good news for you if, like another reader who emailed me this morning, you are trying to keep Google Calendar notifications flooding your inbox. It's easy to adjust the frequency with which you receive email, desktop, and mobile notifications from Google Calendar....
Creating and selling digital products like webinars, on-demand courses, and eBooks is one of the ways that I've been able to keep this site going and keep a roof over my head for the last decade. And I've done it without using any of the...
Canva is a tool that I use nearly every day of my working life. Like some of the other tools in my daily work life, there are some features of Canva that I use far more than others. Canva seems to be constantly adding new...
Here’s an activity to do with your educators… 1. Watch this video (maybe 3 times?) 2. Try to answer the following questions about the video (one focal question per viewing?) What are students doing? (e.g., they’re building something, they’re cooking, they’re designing) Where are the settings in which they’re doing...
