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Managing Screen Time – The Student’s Perspective
Here’s an interesting study into how students perceive their amount of screen time. I was surprised by the high daily average of 5-10 hours they spend (including school, social media, gaming and entertainment.
Redefining Math with the Google Apps for Education
This is a good example of how teachers can use Google apps to redefine how to teach their subject. Although this presentation is aimed at Maths teachers, the lessons learned can be applied to other curriculum areas.
Tips, Tricks and Traps
Google Slides CHEAT SHEET
From ‘Shake Up Learning’: This Google Slides Cheat Sheet will give teachers and students an overview of the Slides Home Screen, as well as a good overview of the available features in the menu and toolbar.
Grading By Hand in Flubaroo
Flubaroo has previously featured in the BWB and 
those clever people have just released an update. You can now have open ended questions that the teacher marks in amongst self marking questions. The interface looks great – let me know if you need help trying this out.
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Things that make you go hmmmm….
Think It Up
This is the latestest educational initiative in the USA that uses celebs to promote working hard in school. Behind all that faf and paf is this useful explanation relating brain science to learning. Has mainly a math focus but can apply to all curriculum areas.
When Art and Technology meet…
Take 5 mins to watch this video of an experience Disney animator take his pencil ‘beyond the paper’. Although it is cool techo stuff, Glen Keane also talks about the art and the nature of story telling. Technology, Art, Languages – something for everyone!
