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MIT App Inventor 2 beta is a Great Way to Introduce Design to a Coding Curriculum
MIT App Inventor, originally conceived and built out of Google Labs, democratizes app creation for Android smartphones. In this video,...


The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Gary Wolf of Quantified Self writes: Princeton University Press has just reissued this classic essay ["The Usefulness of Useless...
How Shigero Miyamoto, legendary creator of Zelda and Mario Bros., designs a game
"I think that it was in my generation that people who made video games really became designers rather than technologists," Shigero...


How Gaming Connects to SEL and Career Readiness
Leverage your students’ interests in gaming to build social and emotional learning—skills that will be valuable in their future jobs....


Resources for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A collection of lesson plans, curricula, and multimedia resources for teaching the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Since...


123D Circuits or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circuit Board
123D Circuits 123D Circuits is an online electronics simulator and collaborative design platform, born from the partnership between...


Critique Protocol: Helping Students Produce High-Quality Work
Your students can improve their work by recognizing the strengths and weaknesses in the work of others. Overview Starting at 3 years old,...
So You’ve Made a Zoom Recording…Now What?
As a brief refresher, Zoom now has two types of recording: Local Recording and Cloud Recording. Local Recordings, the recording feature...


Do's & Don'ts for Teaching English-Language Learners
The number of English-Language Learners in the United States is growing rapidly, including many states that have not previously had large...


Using Technology to Inspire Independent Readers
As teachers, one of our most critical jobs is to create independent readers. Getting kids excited about books is the first and most...
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