Sometimes I talk about the education-industrial complex on this blog, rarely with kindness. I captured much of that in Stop Stealing Dreams. Readers will see that not once have I criticized a hard-working teacher who meant well. That’s because it’s the bureaucratic industrial system that’s at fault here, not the teachers. Now more than ever, […]
Guest Post by Dr. Sonny Magana Check out Dr. Magana’s T3 Academy for Innovation and become a T3 Certified Innovator. Use the code AliceKeelerT3AcademyDiscount to get a 30% discount Low Impact of #EdTech Consider the X.Y graph. Now imagine two lines on that graph: one line showing exponential growth, the other flat and low. One
A University of Idaho official confirmed this morning that UI student Adam Seo, 20, died from injuries suffered in Friday’s head-on crash on U.S. Highway 95 about 15 miles north of New Meadows. The crash involved Deary resident Melissa Kirkland, a teacher at Moscow High School. Kirkland suffered two broken hands a broken foot in
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I have been doing some updating on my Chrome extensions so I’m hoping you’ll try them out and shamelessly ask that you’ll leave a nice review 🙂 I’m really passionate about collaboration and feedback. I created most of these extensions to help me more effectively do that. Chrome Webstore alicekeeler.com/webstore AnyoneCanView Chrome extension for AnyoneCanView
Twitter chats are a great way for educators to interact with other educators. Interacting with teachers not just at our school widens our access to ideas, resources, and teaching techniques. I have created a spreadsheet to help you moderate or participate in a Twitter chat. Template alicekeeler.com/twitterchat Moderating a Twitter Chat A twitter chat
My good friend Christine Pinto was telling me she was having her Kindergartners do some pumpkin activities this week in anticipation of going to a pumpkin patch. I thought alicekeeler.com/pixelart would be a fun way for kids to make a pumpkin since after all, the answer is always a spreadsheet! Using my pixel art template
I Love Real Data!!! My typical joke is “Who is Bob and why is he carrying 40 watermelons?” As a math teacher pretty much the entire textbook is “who cares?” it’s hard to engage students with contrived word problems. However, I believe students DEEPLY CARE! They want to change the world and be influential. This
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Teachers Are Professionals is a project I am working on in partnership with PledgeCents. We are launching Phase 1 of the project. The first step to participating is to create a PledgeCents page for Teachers Are Professionals. Discounts Phase 1 is REDUCING how much you pay out of pocket. Long term we would like to
All 5 of my kids (ranging from ages 7 to 15) love Minecraft. To this day my 15 year old can still spend hours playing Minecraft. For many kids, Minecraft is engaging and provides a context they care about. Minecraft education edition has a library of pre-made lessons. There is even a whole world created
Why do I use Google Docs (and Google Apps as part of G Suite)? Collaboration. This is one feature I can not give up and no one does it better than Google. Always Collaborate Almost never am I creating something that I will use only for myself. My first step when creating a Google Doc
