Latest education updates from around the world
Baamboozle Review for Teachers – Tons of Fun Learning Games to Use in Class
Snap Lays Off 20% of Staff, Increases Long-term Focus on Augmented Reality
Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced it’s laying off a fifth of its staff and abandoning a number of projects as it bids to rebound with a more singular focus on becoming a leader in augmented reality in the future.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, says in a blog post it’s laying off 20 percent of its 6,400 employees, or around 1,300 people dispersed across multiple teams.
The company says it’s increasing focus on three specific areas: community growth, revenue growth, and augmented reality.
“Projects that don’t directly contribute to these areas will be discontinued or receive substantially […]
What is Project-Based Learning?
Project-based learning (PBL) centers the learning around students meeting class objectives by engaging in practical real-world experiences that foster engagement.
Write With Emojis in Google Docs
Earlier this week Google added a new emoji option into Google Docs. The new option enables you to type @ followed by an emotion to add an emoji into a sentence in your Google Documents. For example, you can type “@smile” to generate a list of smiley emojis that you can pick from to insert into the sentence you’re writing. Of course, you can also do this by simply opening the insert menu in Google Docs and then selecting the emoji option.
In this short video I demonstrate how to add […]
Two Search Refinement Tips for Every Teacher and Student
A couple of days ago I hosted a webinar for tech coaches. In the webinar I mentioned that teaching teachers just a couple of quick search refinement tips that they can pass on to students can help them stop feeling like their students are going to the same websites over and over. To that end, I shared two search refinement tips that every teacher and student should know. These two strategies will help students get beyond the usual first couple of pages of search results. Both strategies are outlined in this short video.
In […]
Factile- An Easy Way to Create Jeopardy-style Review Games
Back to School – The Month in Review
The sun has set on the last day of August. Nearly every school in my area is now back in session. And those few that aren’t in session will be next week. So while calendar says that autumn doesn’t start for a few more weeks, it sure feels like fall around here. I hope that you have a great start to the new school year!
As I do at the end of every month, I’ve compiled a list of the most popular posts of the last month. Take a look and see if there is something interesting […]
Best Resources for Science Teachers
Quizalize Games – Turn Any Quiz Into an Epic Game
Disclosure: Quizalize is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
Quizalize is a great teaching tool that I’ve used and written about since 2015 when it differentiated itself from the market by being the first classroom quiz game tool that offered an option to have your students play your quiz game as an in-classroom group activity or at-home activity. Today, Quizalize launched another new feature that is useful, exciting, and different from what other classroom quiz platforms offer. That new feature is called Quizalize Games. Quizalize Games […]
5 Easy Things to Do with Quizlet
Looking for something fun and easy to do with your students? Try Quizlet! Here are 5 easy things to do with Quizlet. Get started quickly and easily
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‘Into the Radius’ Brings Hardcore Post-Apocalyptic Survival to Quest 2 in September
The Stalker-inspired survival game Into the Radius (2020) has seen its share of success on SteamVR headsets when it initially released in Early Access in late 2019. Now the studio says it’s bringing the open world game to Quest 2 starting next month.
Update (August 31st, 2022): CM Games has announced that Into the Radius is arriving on Quest 2 on September 8th. You can wishlist it over on the Meta Store here.
Since we last checked in with the game, the studio has also released a recap of its beta […]
Best Free Social-Emotional Learning Sites and Apps
Social-emotional learning resources for teachers, families, and students
Generation Genius Offers Tons of Educational Science and Math Videos to Use in Class
NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the “HTML of the metaverse”
NVIDIA, one of the tech sector’s power players, is pushing the Universal Scene Description protocol as the foundation of interoperable content and experiences in the metaverse. In a recent post the company explains why it believes the protocol, originally invented by Pixar, fits the needs of the coming metaverse.
Though the word metaverse is presently being used as a catchall for pretty much any multi-user application these days, the truth is that the vast majority of such platforms are islands unto themselves that have no connectivity to virtual spaces, people, or objects on other platforms. The ‘real’ metaverse, most […]
Report: ‘Fortnite’ Update Includes Mention of Oculus, Suggesting Future Quest Support
Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game.
Update 21.50, the game’s fifth and final update to Season 3, is rolling out today, and it seems data miner and itinerant Fortnite leaker HYPEX has gotten a look under the hood, maintaining that Epic has added “stuff related to Oculus.”
We haven’t been able to independently verify this, however HYPEX, who is known in the community as a reliable leaker, surmises this could point to VR support being […]
Tract Now Offers Guides for Project-based Learning
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
The latest update to Tract for […]
5 Great Audio Recording Apps for Teachers and Students
1. Voice Memos
A Few Short Lessons About Labor Day
This coming weekend is Labor Day Weekend in the United States and Canada. For most of us it is a three day weekend. It is the traditional “end of summer” in the minds of many of us. If you’re planning to answer questions about Labor Day or teach any lessons about it, here are some short videos to add to your list of resources.
Spaces EDU Adds Easier Enrollment and Faster Sharing
Faster Enrollment and Easier Activity Sharing
Nothing stops momentum in a classroom like having to go around to each student and say “click here” or respond to students saying “it won’t let me in.” That’s why Spaces has introduced new enrollment and sharing options.
There is now an option to generate QR codes for your students to scan to join your […]
How MTSS Can Help Teachers and Students
MTSS can change the culture at a school or district, benefiting teachers, parents, and students.
5 Great Speech to Text Apps to Transcribe Audio Recordings
Wait What… You Can Change Uppercase in Google Docs
You can change uppercase in Google Docs™. Google Docs allows you to switch the style of your text from one case to another… including camel case.
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Alleged Apple Trademarks Point to ‘Reality’ Branding for Long-rumored Mixed Reality Headset
Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple’s long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the ‘Reality’ naming scheme.
Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay for three names: Reality One, Reality Pro, and Reality Processor, Bloomberg reports.
The first two may differentiate classes of the rumored MR headset, much like iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, while ‘Reality Processor’ could be the platform’s SoC. The report maintains Apple may be using a M2 SoC with […]
5 Ways Edtech Companies Show Customers They Care
Good vendors will learn who you are and what you need help with before making any attempt to sell their offerings.
Sharing a few tips for the vendors in the crowd…
1) Getting to Know You
Before anyone talks business, the discovery process (the cold, salesy lingo for getting to know you) should unearth tons of info about your district—and why wouldn’t it?
The age of information means that we freely share details about our lives via social media, websites, publications, and more. Doing due diligence before picking up the phone to talk or send an email sends an additional, subtler message: […]
Schoolytics – Quickly Find the Information You Need to Help Your Students Succeed
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Disclosure: Schoolytics is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
Schoolytics is a service that I’ve heard a lot about over the last few months. If you’re active on social media, you’ve probably seen a post or two about it too. Last week I finally got a chance to take a good look at it. To say I wish I had tried it sooner is an understatement.
At its core Schoolytics is a tool that ties together all of your Google Classroom information in one convenient place. Instead of having to […]