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This is a collection of 82 short videos (5-6 minutes) of an interesting logic problem including the solution.

Ted Education Riddle Videos

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For students who like story-telling but are a bit hesitant to enter the world of programming, twine.org is a soft entry point for getting them to work in the intersection of stories and logic pathways...

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These are some handy keyboard short-cuts when you're working in class (particularly on Google Classroom and/or Chromebooks). 

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My wife gave me a Lego Mindstorms 2.0 kit not long after we were married. I used it for a while but then kids appeared and my toys were put away. Skip ahead 20+ years and I'm now a classroom teacher (...

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There’s been a lot of talk about the impact of ChatGPT on the classroom as people speculate that students will use it to do all of their homework and teachers will be unable to assess student’s abilit...

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Visual arts class is not an area of strength for me, so I look for activities that play to my strengths and that are different from what my grade 8 students have done for the past 8+ years of elementa...

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As an extension to my unit on determining the general term for a linear series, my students learned to flowchart the process and then create Scratch programs that implemented their process. My student...

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In my quest to link more computing into my curriculum, I introduced my grade 8 class to flowcharting and Scratch coding as a continuation of their unit on determining the general term for a linear dat...

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This is a short article that talks about some fundamental differences between the big screen of the TV and the small screen of tablets and phones. My kids are past the age where this is important from...

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Conrad Wolfram brings his knowledge of mathematics to the discussion of what we should be teaching in math class. It's a thought provoking piece about how we should be using technology in teaching mat...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c

This is an interesting piece from Vertasium. This next thing is going to revolutionize education. Or not.

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 The title for this video was pure click-bait, "The Biggest Myth in Education", but it was from Vertasium which generally has well researched and informative videos, so I followed it.

If you're an educ...

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A short but insightful video about the benefits of asking questions until you understand. Now, if I can just convince my students of the benefit of asking questions this way.

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Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro using a mouse and keyboard gets tiresome, so I decided I would purchase an accessory to make editing a little easier. There aren't a lot of options in the consumer price ...

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The MakeBlock Ultimate 2.0 kit usually sells for $418CAD to 489CAD but I found it for $257US which is currently about $360CAD, so I decided that while we're stuck at home, it was a good time to do a h...

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When you start researching robotics for educational purposes, you encounter a lot of stuff. I'm making notes to help myself decipher what's most useful.

This document is evolving as I encounter more in...

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Introduction

This lesson uses a Raspberry Pi 4, an HYSRF05 distance sensor and Python to measure distance. The video has all the details.

The accompanying video does he following:

  • shows how to wire the...

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Objective

Test the usefulness of an HR SRF05 ultrasonic sensor to measure distance and write the python code for a raspberry pi to operate the sensor.

If you're new to working with Raspberry Pi and this...

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This project is to create a program that does a couple of things. First, it has to take input from the code key and translate the dots and dashes that are entered by the key and turn them into letters...

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About Adafruit

This is the inspiring story of the creation of the Adafruit company and its founder Limor Fried (Lady Ada).

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It's funny how things come full circle. I was a product manager for a Linux distribution that was based on Debian for about 7 years. I left that role 13 years ago. Now that I'm teaching and have a job...

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The Challenge

Create a system that will turn a fan on when the temperature in a greenhouse reaches a specific threshold temperature and off when it falls back below that threshold.

This project uses a R...

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https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/green-bronx-machine/

Steven Ritz - Green Bronx Machine :https://greenbronxmachine.org/ He also does a Ted Talk (13 minutes) https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_ritz_a_teach...

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Experiencing True Inquiry

I don't think I was formally taught to decompose and re-compose numbers as part of learning math and it's a tactic I don't think I use as much as I might.

Decomposing to make a...

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An A-Ha moment

I like puzzles. I like looking for patterns and short-cuts to solutions. I like programming. I like elegant solutions which are often the outcome of identifying a unique pattern in a...

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Connecting Math and Science in the World

The bicycle, which many kids are still familiar with, provides an opportunity to investigate some real-world science that is tangible in many kids lives. The ge...

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There is so much to unpack from this film so I’ll only touch on a few points. We see the fallibility of teachers, the cultural biases that they bring to class and the cultural disconnect the students ...

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Learning by Interacting with Student Thinking

This wasn't interacting with one of my student's but rather interacting with one of my classmates who is a student but the outcome is similar. Learning to ...

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Presenter: Carol Bliese

Population Education (https://populationeducation.org/)  is a program with a strong emphasis on curriculum resources and professional development for K-12 educators that focuses...

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Some people love statistics and some people hate statistics and few people seem indifferent to them but understanding statistics is important not only to critically evaluate the messages that we are b...

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A Change in Perspective

I grew up with old-school math. I drilled on times tables until I became fluid with them. I wasn’t generally taught to have a fundamental understanding of the mathematics I was ...

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