Comic Books Belong in the Classroom In his TED talk, Gene Luen Yang talks about some of the misconceptions about comic books that teachers hold and how comics and their structure have helped his mathematics students learn concepts in a way that his video lessons couldn’t. What’s the Point of a Makerspace? Jennifer Gonzales talks…
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Digital Bytes – 19th March, 2018
OK Go Sandbox If you are like me, you enjoy OK Go’s amazing videos like their Rube Goldberg machine and their dance in zero gravity. Now they have teamed up with Google to create the OK Go Sandbox which is designed “to give teachers whatever tools they need to connect the joy, wonder, and fun…
Digital Bytes – 8th January, 2018
Fastest Line at the Supermarket This is a great example of how computational thinking in mathematics is all around us. This post clearly explains the steps of taking advantage of a trip to the supermarket to challenge kids to use what they know about a situation and make predictions about which line will move…
Digital Bytes – 25th September, 2017
Using the iPad Camera … for more than Photography The amazing Cathy Hunt has written this blog post about how she uses the camera on the iPad for a wide variety of purposes. From using the camera as a compositional tool, to using live filters to show tones and lines or creating tessellations…