I like Linux, and more specifically, Linux Mint. I have been using Linux on my personal laptop as my primary O.S. for about 15 years now and I also installed Linux Mint in old laptops that were “end of life”…
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Random name picker Android app
Do you need a random name picker? Try this Android app!
Hour of code with CS-First: create your own Google logo
CS-First users: you should have received an e-mail from CS-First about their suggestion for this year’s Hour of Code activity. Create your own Google logo using CS First / Scratch. Apart from the on line activity and templates, they are…
What I have learned from “blending” my class this year (4)
I promise that this “series” of post about blended-learning will also include some “tech tips” or “hints” related to the use of the Learning Management System that our District has provided to “blend” our classes. Our District has adopted Canvas…
What I have learned from “blending” my class this year (3)
Digital natives vs. Digital literacy Another important thing that I have confirmed (not learned as I already was aware of it) is that our “digital natives” are not necessarily digitally literate. It is our responsibility, as their teachers, to give…
What I have learned from “blending” my class this year (2)
Students’ accountability One of the things that the “blended-learning” approaches promote is students’ accountability, in some way. I mean, students are given much more responsibility on what they learn, the pace they want to learn, and how to deal with…
What I have learned from “blending” my class this year (1)
I am planning to share and update what I am learning about my “personalized-learning” / “blended-learning” classes this year in this blog. This is my first, introductory post. If I have to define my proposal for this year, I should…
Visual discrimination activities
These last years I have had several students who had some issues identifying certain letters we are all aware of… Mainly in primary levels some of them find confusing the following patterns: b vs. d, p vs. q… So I decided…
WeTeach_CS 2017 Summit – Student playground
So proud of our coders participating in the Student Playground at the WeTeach_CS 2017 Summit… They had so much fun. And they did an awesome job showing off their projects to the teachers!
Coding club, lots of students’ projects in our Scratch studio
It is just amazing when students unleash their creativity even though they may not master the tool yet… I have just added to our studio all the projects they have been working on recently and I have enjoyed so much…