A meme, a comic, and a Chrome extension – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/another-ed-initiative-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/the-teachers-lounge-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/full-page-capture-in-chrome/
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…
With the new features added to Google Voice Typing last week, I decided to put together a cheat sheet for the commands of Google Voice Typing. How do you get it? By joining the Eduk8me mailing list! Why should I give you my email?
New Tools for Interactive Fiction and Engaged Writing | Edutopia Students were using interactive fiction tools to reimagine American Revolution battles as text-based adventures, written from the second-person perspective. Interactive fiction is essentially a computer-based version of Choose Your Own Adventure books, in which the reader has agency regarding a story’s multiple, threaded outcome. I…
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Browsers for iOS devices seem to proliferate like so many tribbles, but since they are bound by Apple’s rules, their performance is basically the same. It’s the features that differentiate them. After reading A Few Nice iCab Tricks for 2016, I abruptly spent my $1.99 for iCab Mobile and have been a happy camper ever since….