A Meme, a comic, and a new journalism app – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/fences-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/the-last-month-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/pressto-journalism-web-platform-is-launching-this-spring/
Last week I talked about switching a Google Drive document from /edit to /preview and back. The process is cumbersome, requiring you to edit the address of the document. To help with switching, I wrote a little Javascript code that will switch between the modes when clicked. Don’t fear the bookmarklet A bookmarklet is a…
Delaying school start times has been universally touted as the answer to the growing epidemic of teenage sleep deprivation, but this common orthodoxy may be based in false ideas about how teen biological clocks really work. The argument for later start times hinges on the fact that teenagers prefer to go to bed and sleep in…
We are teachers, we need to do repetitive tasks all the time due to the fact that we have more than one student. Knowing some basic coding can help you make light work out of repetitive tasks. Source: Coding Will Save You Hours Of Your Life – Teacher Tech Here are some great real world examples on…
Center Stage is a camera feature built in to several iPad models that uses software and the front facing camera to track a person and keep them in the center of view. It will track multiple people, zooming out when necessary to keep both in the field of view. Why Center Stage You may have…
Totally different paths taken with the opening up of GPS data vs education data. Yet all of the research (and the debate about education data) has created the illusion of ubiquitous education data. Instead, in practice, the parallels between education and GPS fall apart in some key ways. First, while the decision to end selective…