How PowerPoint is killing critical thought.
From The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information
This could apply to Notebook, or Google slides as well.
From The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information
This could apply to Notebook, or Google slides as well.
Some adults are intimidated by the the technological knowledge of today’s youth, but it appears that kids today are not as good with technology as they appear. The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web. When dealing with students and technology, one…
BrainPop has a webinar, resources to make assignments, build assessments, and manage student learning remotely. In the webinar, they outline integrations with various Learning Management Systems, such as Google Classroom and Canvas, providing suggestions for both synchronous and asynchronous approaches to online learning. Source: Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: School Closure Support Resources from BrainPop
Need a way to easily create a graph? The National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education has put together an easy to use tool to create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs. Users can email the graph to themselves, which will also give a link to save the…
I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as…
Last month I had the privilege of my presentation Rock Google Slides Like the Boss You Are being selected for the NEOTech 2020 conference. Unfortunately, the conference was canceled. Today the organizers have announced a way to virtually attend the conference through their website, NEOTech Conference. Besides my presentation, there are a ton of other presentations…
According to an article on CNN, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy: “About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.” It goes on further that 19 million American adults have “below basic” skills, which…