Using models when dividing fractions can be difficult. This post helps walk you through it for when teaching your fifth graders.| The Owl Teacher
Wendy Wei for Borderless Magazine Chicago's Ukrainian diaspora has funded millions to reconstruct bombed communities. But as some humanitarian workers pivot from humanitarian work to military action, volunteers face hard questions about effective resistance.| Borderless Magazine NFP
Time is a funny thing. The ticking of the clock is a constant to measure things by, but when you really pay attention to it, time doesn’t act so sensibly. Instead, it’s more “a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff”, to quote Dr Who. So here are 7 visuals that will change the way you look at time. Chronos vs Kairos time The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos: sequential time that's measured by the ticking of a clock Kairos: quality time, when it’s almost like time moves s...| Sketchy Ideas
Barrio Arts Festival drew large crowds to celebrate Puerto Rican culture this weekend with local art, music and food.| Borderless Magazine NFP
Borderless Magazine captures how ICE arrests in Los Angeles sparked a string of demonstrations across Chicago this week.| Borderless Magazine NFP
Ever feel like you’d like your students to dig deeper into a text instead of just glossing over it with a superficial read? One of the most powerful strategies we... The post Take Text Annotation to a New Level with Purposeful Doodling appeared first on Reading and Writing Haven.| Reading and Writing Haven
Learn the best ideas with this Slow Productivity book summary. Discover how to accomplish more by doing less with this unique visual summary.| Sketchy Ideas
We all know the staples when it comes to the visuals in the classroom: anchor charts and graphic organizers. They’re great, but what if I told you there’s a whole world of visuals that could| The Owl Teacher
I've compiled the best tip from best selling books on how to build a new habit in these visuals to help you create habits that stick. The post 10 Hacks to Help You Build a New Habit appeared first on Sketchy Ideas.| Sketchy Ideas
6 years ago, I was an English as a foreign language teacher. I spent 10 years teaching students from all over the world how to communicate in the new Lingua Franca. Although I've stopped teaching, I'm still obsessed with effective learning techniques and I wanted to share 10 tips I've learned in simple visuals. These aren't about learning a skill as fast as possible (maybe that's a topic for another newsletter). No, they're tips for how anyone — even you — can learn more effectively with ...| Sketchy Ideas
(Note: It’s been well over a decade since I worked at Apple, and although I’ve kept in touch with a few folks who still work there, everything mentioned in this post is purely speculati…| Digital Composting
Obviously the Vision Pro isn’t the first VR/AR/whatever device, but it’s the first one that’s got enough resolution to prevent me from getting pissed off as soon as I stick it to my face. And while there have already been reams of articles published about other aspects of using the Vision Pro, I haven’t seen […]| Digital Composting
Now that we’re finally starting to see some mainstream cameras that can run apps (see previous discussion here) I suppose it’s time to talk a little bit about one of the potential downsides of such a scenario. Because as soon as you allow people to download and run third-party software, you’ve got to start thinking […]| Digital Composting
I recently needed to generate a quick visual inside a Microsoft Fabric notebook. After a little internet searching, I found there are many good quality charting libraries in Python, however it was going to take too long to figure out how to create a very specific type of chart. This is where Vega came to … Continue reading Create charts using Vega in Microsoft Fabric Notebook| Phil Seamark on DAX