🙋Scanning in the mobile Google Drive app, reading & screens, and more – Of bits and bytes for December 4, 2023
Internet Travels
Of bits 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
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Apps
Finally, Google has added scanning to the iOS Google Drive App. No more scanning with Apple Notes and sharing! It works really well, and I especially like how I can adjust the corners after each page is scanned instead of how Apple Notes makes me wait until the end.
Got a mic that you don’t know if it works? Head on over to Mic Test and test it out! The mic that is, but I guess you would also be testing out the site.
Alice Keeler has a great introduction to FigJam to help you get started.
Pedagogy
I started reading The Worst Programmer I Know with a little trepidation, I mean, the author put the programmers name out for all to see! However, you’ll have to read how he was “deemed” the worst programmer.
Is it time to add K-cups to the school supply lists? Caffeine could have a surprising effect on the brain’s ability to learn.
Reading and screens have been questioned a lot, but just how does reading on screens affect our thinking? And along those same lines, what about screentime? Should screentime in education be looked at differently?
As a surprise to no one, not only are students less likely to be in the mood to learn in the afternoon, but workers are less productive, especially Friday afternoons.
Technology
Here’s a dive into the affects that ChatGPT has had in its first year of life. And what a busy life that is, helping others while also creating phony medical reports.
I don’t say I love things very often, but I do love my Keychron K6 keyboard. It may not be for everyone since it doesn’t have a number pad, but I really like the small footprint. More importantly, typing on it is a joy!
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Tips
No, iPhones’ Namedrop feature is not dangerous.
This was a surprise to me, how few know what the lock in the address bar of a browser means. However, Google has been moving to secure by default, and will instead put a big NOT SECURE by the address when you’re on a non-secure site.
Here’s something I didn’t know I needed, Google Slides in Cursive!
Pop Culture
Just like the pronounciation of gif, whether you should have two spaces after a period is another go to for me when I want to get people riled up. Spoiler alert, for almost everything you write you only need one space after a period.
Are kids really worse today than in the past? Research points to a no h/t – CURMUDGUCATION: Why You Think Kids These Days Are Terrible.
Potpourri
- Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in public schools – Daily Montanan
- Why Should You Write in the Margins? | Psychology Today
- Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage | Ars Technica
- Frontiers | How attention and knowledge modulate memory: The differential impact of cognitive conflicts on subsequent memory—A review of a decade of research
Extra Credit
Here are extra links that I found interesting that may or may not be education related or interesting to you and I didn’t want to lose them.
- Infographic: “The 20 Internet Giants That Rule the Web”
- Fishing Essay Graphic Organizer
- The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection h/t – 8 Best AI Tools of 2023 – Educators Technology
- Dolly Parton explains why she prefers to fax over texting
- After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine – The Verge
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