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Notification overload
The problem with alerts is that they don’t scale. They create noise. Every time you poke everyone with a bulletin, you’ve taken attention away with no hope of giving it back. Source: Bulletins vs bulletin boards | Seth’s Blog One of the best things you can ever do for yourself is to take control of…
New evaluation tool for K-12 administrators
With new mobile apps and technology tools popping up constantly, schools have a variety of options when it comes to picking something that might work in a class. But, is there an easy way to make sure the tool will be good for students? Last year, the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology requested…
Importance of sleep, opportunity costs, ChatGPT, and more – Of bits and bytes for March 20, 2023
Internet Travels Of bit and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week “The method, then, is simply to expose ourselves to a stream of provocations and interesting problems, and have a hunch on where to look up…
Is edtech worth it?
With all due respect, this is what I call Edutech Shiny Toy Syndrome. And it is out of control. Kids don’t need screens for individualized educational experiences. They are already on those stultifying, addictive, isolating screens far too much. Bah! Humbug! Source: Silicon Valley’s Schools Program — Students Are an Afterthought | National Review I don’t…
🙋‍♂️ Recalculating, getting the right answers, AI detectors are a bust, and more – Of bits and bytes for January 2, 2024
Internet Travels Welcome to 2024! I fully embraced the idea of Dead Week, working on several geeky projects strictly to satisfy my own curiosity and learn some things along the way. I set up a Ghost installation so I could compare it to WordPress, a chat server using Zulip, switched my About site to a…
Another clipboard manager for Chrome – Permanent Clipboard
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…