Fact checking, comic, and Edtech – Top 3 of the Week
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https://eduk8.me/2018/09/comic-buckle-down/
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/does-edtech-improve-or-harm-education/
What are you going to do first? Life is full of firsts. Your first step. Your first words. Your first days of school. This year I asked graduates, “What are you going to do first?”, implying that what they do now will probably not be what they will be doing the years from now. Next…
You can now add questions to Google Classroom for quick polls. There are two answer types, short answer and multiple choice. As it is for polling, there isn’t any option for automatic feedback with the correct answer. Unfortunately, Google still hasn’t added any sort of organizational tool to group items in the classroom or organize…
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I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does…
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When taking pictures with your smartphone, two tips come to mind: Don’t bother cropping before taking the picture Almost all smartphones use a digital zoom for zooming instead of an optical zoom. An optical zoom uses lenses to adjust the image being caught by the sensor, but since smartphones do not have the space for…