A comic, moons, and remote schooling – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/comic-online-shopping/
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/tour-the-moons-of-the-solar-system/
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/you-cant-simply-port-face-to-face-schooling-to-remote/
Running Windows on a Chromebook with Paperspace. Quick summary Using Paperspace.com I can run a full version of Windows remotely. It does cost, and it does require a fast connection. The downsides are outweighed by the convenience of filling in some of the uses that are still difficult or impossible to do on a Chromebook…
This “c factor” is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group. Source: Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups |…
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talent) with numerical indicators…
https://eduk8.me/2019/12/new-years-eve-greetings/ https://eduk8.me/2020/01/memorization/ https://eduk8.me/2020/01/ai-dungeon-2-is-now-available-on-the-web/
Up until just a few years ago, I got around 350 emails a day, which presented me with an exhausting, time-consuming daily task that I grumbled about plenty. Now, because of social media and messaging services, that number has been cut by more than half. But things are actually worse. These days, messages come at…