Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Boost Your Learning Capacity: 32 Amazing Tips


With 32 different ways of fast learning to choose from, at least some of them will surely be perfectly fitting for you.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

How-To: Growth Mindset in the Classroom


In her celebrated book ‘Mindset: The New Psychology of Success’, Stanford university psychologist Carol S. Dweck makes a strong case backed up with  scientific evidence for the power of mindset in shaping one’s success or failure in almost every facet of our life.

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THE EDTECH LIST


Deciding what to put in your makerspace or the right edtech to integrate into your classroom to transform learning can be overwhelming. Let me do the heavy lifting for you!



Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Math Quote

“No matter how engaging the lecturer may be, sitting still, listening to someone talk, and attempting to transcribe what they have said into a notebook is a very poor substitute for actively engaging with the material at hand, for doing mathematics.” David Bressoud

The Shift from Engaging Students to Empowering Learners



Here's a video that highlights this shift from student engagement to student empowerment. If you connect at all with this video, please like it, comment on it, and share it out. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel as well.

STEMfinity shop


Cool site to help along your STEAM journey with all the "stuff"


Monday, May 15, 2017

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Teacher's Guide to Computational Thinking


Computational thinking is a cognitive or thought process involving logical reasoning by which problems are solved and by which artifacts, procedures and systems are better understood. It embraces:

The ability to think algorithmically
The ability to think in terms of decomposition
The ability to think in generalizations, identifying and making use of patterns
The ability to think in abstractions, choosing good representations, and
The ability to think in terms of evaluation.
Computational thinking can be applied to a wide range of entities including:  human created objects, systems, processes, objects, algorithms, problems, solutions, abstractions, and collections of data or information.


Monday, April 24, 2017

Let the Making Begin!


A nice collection of free ebooks from MakerEd… Start making today!

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Math Word Wall


I found this over at teachers pay teachers - I like this kind of quick reference...

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Teaching and learning mission cards


Some ideas of challenges for teachers and students… open ended and creative!

Created by: @MrsHumanities

Monday, March 13, 2017

Thursday, March 9, 2017

How to Make Pop-up Book


awesome… next up in my makerspace!

Innovation in teaching and learning


Good questions with the audience in mind is a mix that needs to be at the forefront always in education.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017

Truth Inside of You


Amazing human video

Mathematics, Summarised - 2017


The entire field of mathematics summarised in a single map! This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relate to each other and all of the sub-topics they are made from.

References/Further Reading:
Summary of mathematics
Earliest human counting
First use of zero
First use of negative numbers
Renaissance science
History of complex numbers
Proof that pi is irrational