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Tag: K-12

  • Getting around the roadblocks – rebelling kids

    One of the worst kept secrets in schools is that kids get around the firewalls, filters and everything else the network admins and parents do to stop them from getting at sites that they are not supposed to. But how do they do that? Well they use circumventors sites like this one – Peacefire. Of…

  • 2008 Predictions

    This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…

  • Play Against All Odds

    If you are in touch with a class doing anything with refugees, you might want to take a look at this game.  I haven’t really take a look yet, but it looks pretty good to be sure.

  • Japan & DS

    Well it looks like the DS finally has caught on with at least one school – and in Japan to boot – Thanks to Wade for the heads up. At just one-fifteenth of the cost of a personal computer — around 17,000 yen (150 dollars) each — the DS is an economical teaching tool, he…

  • Learn Math or Die Trying…

    THE has a nice little story about what a school in the US is finding with it’s game integration in Math. I think the kicker is here: Hobson emphasized that the product doesn’t change the math concepts that are being taught. The year before adopting Tabula Digita, a group of Georgia schools had already been…