Academicia: Kids re-enact the Oscar nominees
Embrace your inner teachiness. Jest is proud to present our first installment of the year’s best movies, as performed for and by children. Feeling guilty because you didn’t see half the nominees this...
View ArticleAcademicia — TED Lessons worth sharing
Embrace you inner teachiness. TED-Ed: Lessons worth sharing TED, the organization behind the popular conference series with the same name, just launched a new initiative that aims to bring TED-like...
View ArticleAcademicia — Maybe you do need a real teacher
Embrace your inner teachiness. Right before April Fools Day, 2011, math students at Biola University in Southern California learned the difference between real and imaginary numbers from professor...
View ArticleAcademicia — Organizing help from Mendeley
Embrace your inner teachiness. Mendeley is the world’s largest crowdsource library. Teachers can use it to manage curriculum, do research and create original research projects, or just to get...
View ArticleAcademicia — Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don’t Give A Sh*t?
The In the Know team at the Onion shows that standardized tests are culturally biased against some children. This report sheds light on yet another disenfranchised group. (Rated Mature for language.)
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Academicia — Bloom’s interactive taxonomy
Embrace your inner teachiness. Ammar Merhbi is an edtech/e-learning integration specialist interested in computer-assisted language learning, teacher education, and workplace performance technology. He...
View ArticleAcademicia —“Why can’t we see evidence of alien life?”
Embrace your inner teachiness. Lessons Worth Sharing This is one of TED Ed’s first lessons. Why can’t we see evidence of alien life? Last year at TED2011, Chris Anderson and TED announced a new project...
View ArticleAcademicia — Stand Up: The Day the Teachers Said No
MAP Test Boycott: The Movie It would be like a mechanic whose boss has said,” I want you to use the cheaper version of the brakes even though they’re not as good, I want you to use that.” And mechanic...
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