A comic, webcam recorder, and a meme – Top 3 of the Week
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Amazon grows its education footprint with Amazon Inspire, a free platform for learning materials | TechCrunch
Back in March, we reported how Amazon was poised to up its stakes in the educational publishing market with the launch of a free platform called Inspire for teachers and others to post and share education resources online. Today, the company has confirmed it is doing just that. It has announced Amazon Inspire, an online education resources (OER) platform…
Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids — MIT MEDIA LAB — Medium
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Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find. Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study…
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Clipboard History 2 offers a multiple item clipboard for Chrome
One of the most powerful productivity tools that I use is the ability to store multiple items in the clipboard. I’ve written in the past how I do this, but until today I had not found one that worked on the Chromebooks (and the web clipboard in Google Docs doesn’t count). Clipboard History 2 is…