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"Anger Release Machine": A Coin-op for Shattering Fine Breakables
In 2008, the Swiss/Danish design team Yarisal & Kublitz created their "Anger Release Machine," a vending machine stocked with "crystal...


Take Three! 55 Digital Tools and Apps for Formative Assessment Success
There is no shortage of strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative assessment in their classrooms. It’s...


Adafruit's New Subscription Boxes for Makers and Hackers
Phil from Adafruit sez, "Adafruit released and shipped one of the only maker/hacker subscription boxes." Ecosystem (n.) - A group of...


After 25 Years, This Teacher Says It's All The Paperwork That Made Him Quit
After 25 years of teaching, Rick Young won't return to his history classroom this fall. "This became my home," he says. "This is a...


The Classroom Experiment with Dylan William
Dylan William seeks to help educators achieve at higher levels. This classroom experiment is a great visual representation of how change,...


Generate Artistic, Animated, Color QR Codes That Scan
Qrcode is a github-hosted, Chinese Python project for GNU/Linux and Windows that takes sentences and URLs and creates "artistic" colored...


How Surveillance Capitalism Tracks You without Cookies
Princeton computer science researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan (previously) have just published a new paper, Online...


Why Your Facebook Habit at Work Makes Economists Worry
Productivity, a key measure of the economy's health, has been growing more slowly in recent years — and it has dropped for the past three...


A Great Tool for a Child with Special Communication Needs
First-Then visual schedule is an affordable user-friendly mobile application designed for caregivers to provide positive behavior...


3 Things We Should Stop Doing in Professional Development
I found this concise and poignant. Some of the PD practices we are using right now either don’t make sense anymore, or we have to...
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