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Thanks to the early focus on preventing cyberattacks, Chromebooks are also a hit with the security community. Security experts commonly recommend Chromebooks, whether it’s for the relative who somehow always ends up with spyware toolbars or the researcher heading to a hackers’ meetup. And it’s not about complicated encryption or security tricks — Chromebooks have…
Educators see gold in Pokémon Go
Each night this week, Kellian Adams-Pletcher and her husband Brian have looked out from their Somerville, Mass., home and seen the same thing: dozens of people, all sitting in the tiny park across the street, mobile phones in hand. The crowds are, of course, hunting for elusive digital monsters in the augmented reality game Pokémon…
500 more Apple II titles now available at archive.org
Thanks to anonymous hackers, 500 more Apple II titles are now available on Archive.org. These games are fully playable in the browser, even on Chromebooks. There are a bunch of educational software for the Apple II software, so if you’re looking for an alternative ABCya, check it out.
9 Steps To Choosing A Device | Tom Murray
Having worked with almost 500 school districts and 3,000 school leaders over the past year, I’ve often been asked, “What type of devices should we buy?” The problem with this question, is that quite often this is the leading question – the initial area that the district is investigating. Districts that are working to purchase…
Dropbox Paper is a collaborative word processor for Dropbox
Dropbox first teased Dropbox Paper back in August, and it has now been released for public use. I fired up the Dropbox website to try it out. To get started, click on the Paper link that shows on the left sidewhen logged into Dropbox, or visit https://paper.dropbox.com/. Your Dropbox Paper files are separate from your…
CURMUDGUCATION: Teaching in a Post-Fact World
Stephen Colbert warned us when he coined the term “truthiness” for those things that feel satisfyingly true, but have no actual basis in fact. And now we are swimming in it. From a Washington Post piece about brexit: All of this has come about thanks to a world that is increasingly suspicious of experts. Please,…