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Classroom App Socrative

Teachers Education
Your classroom app for fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments. Works on computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.

How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another

Adults Education
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.

We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review

Teachers Education
Most educators obsess about the quality of their work and are afraid, at best, to disappoint their department and mentors, and at worst, to have their name blacklisted among the community.

G Suite Updates

Teachers Education
G Suite is making support and learning resources easier to find in several G Suite apps.They’re doing this by adding a new quick-access button to some products, and changing the Help menu options in others.

April Fool's Day

Teachers Education
April Fool's Day is the perfect time to play some light-hearted pranks on your friends, family, and co-workers; and if you’re a teacher, pulling an unexpected fast one on your students can be entertaining -- and memorable -- for everyone.

Earth Hour 2019

Teachers Education
This toolkit contains assets which help raise awareness of the nature all around us, tools to empower you and the people around you to take action and advocate for this year's Earth Hour and beyond!

Why Machines That Bend Are Better

Adults Education
Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.

How to learn any language in six months

Adults Education
Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.

How To Cram For Your Exam

Adults Education
Try these study tips when you are down to the wire!

Ultimate Super Bowl Snack Food Recipes • Tasty

Adults Education
Make these delicious snacks for any watch party

Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

Adults Education
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.

How Deadly Are Gambit's Exploding Cards?

Adults Education
The Ragin' Cajun is known for his explosive power and his signature weapon of choice, playing cards, but how dangerous could they be? Kyle stacks the deck on this week's Because Science!

Why Laminar Flow is AWESOME

Adults Education
What is Laminar Flow?

Ant On A Rubber Rope Paradox

Adults Education
Paradoxes are cool!

Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

Adults Education
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

Teaching Housing and New Desks for Nalube Primary School

Adults Education
The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation. You can help by donating $5 or more to this campaign. Smrt English Ltd will match all donations. Click on the link for more details.

The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

Adults Education
Sisyphus was both a clever ruler who made his city prosperous and a devious tyrant who seduced his niece and killed visitors to show off his power.

Liberals vs Conservatives

Adults Education
Are Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?

How do you stop online students cheating?

Teachers Education
Here is an article (and a video that doesn't seem to be working) on cheating and online courses from the BBC. Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions. Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Teachers Education
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.

Cambridge English - Need a plan?

Teachers Education
Cambridge has a great website with a teacher zone that has free lesson plans.