Some of you may already be familiar with Codecademy, which offers free on-line courses in programming and web-site authoring. Now, the site is offering a free after-school program that it states can be used with students as young as 7. During the first semester, the students learn how to build a website. The second semester … Read more
The topic of gaming and its usage in the classroom has been popping up more and more in the last year or so. Jane McGonigal, who is an expert in this area (check out this link to see her extensive experience and list of “unlocked” achievements), gives some good reasons that we should not dismiss … Read more
I’ve made the unilateral decision to declare Fridays a day for fun and games on the Engage Their Minds blog. This week, I present to you the infuriatingly addictive web-based game, “Sugar, Sugar“. Brought to us by the Logic section of Math Playground, “Sugar, Sugar” is a deceptively simple puzzle that gets difficult quickly. Your … Read more
If you are like my daughter (9) (and , to be honest, me), then you went through a stage of fascination with “roly poly” creatures, also known as “pill bugs”. Isopod, a new, educational iPad game banks on that curiosity and takes advantage of one of the unique aspects of iPads – the accelerometer. Players … Read more
Think Link is a Beta site brought to us by David Riley, creator of one of my favorite teacher resources of all time, Triptico. If you have not read my review about Triptico, you can click here – or just go directly to his site to download this magnificent educator toolbox. Think Link is a … Read more
Ian over at byrdseed.com has revised his Differentiator tool, and it looks great. This is a great resource for teachers (or students who are good at working independently), allowing you to target different thinking skills for groups of students based on their needs. You can add depth and complexity to the required content, offer up different … Read more