A comic, webcam recorder, and a meme – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/08/comic-tired-already/
https://eduk8.me/2020/09/alice-keeler-webcam-record-chrome-extension/
https://eduk8.me/2020/09/eduk8meme-wishful-thinking/
In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…
Form a reading group is part 6 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Several of the tips I’ve posted have involved collaboration of some sort, like blogging or Twitter chats. A reading group is a great way to not only read something like George Couros’ The Innovators Mindset but to…
I finally finished my latest cheat sheet, this one on the Gmail keyboard shortcuts! The keyboard shortcuts in Gmail help me get through my emails in record time. When someone wonders how I can keep up with my email, I tell them it’s all in the keyboard. Get your copy now simply by signing up…
Sticky Notes, an app for Chrome, brings sticky notes to your desktop. Once installed and then opened, you are greeted with the with the launcher screen. Clicking on the plus at the bottom left creates your first sticky note. From there, you can create new notes with the plus, or delete notes with the trashcan. The…
A woman may have lost a highly coveted NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter. That user? Famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam. Source: NASA internship reportedly lost after Twitter spat with Homer Hickam Yet another reminder that what you post can come back and haunt you.
About a month ago, someone placed a pair of hipsterish glasses on a museum floor as a prank. Within minutes, a crowd gathered to take pictures of the new “work of art.” You could read this as a throwback to the Dada movement or you could view it as yet another ironic, cynical, postmodern statement…