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Using Google Glass to treat autism
Stanford Researchers Treat Autism With Google Glass As Google retools its Glass experiment, researchers at Stanford are using the device to help autistic children recognize and classify emotions. In a small office buried inside an administrative building at Stanford, Catalin Voss and Nick Haber are pairing face-tracking technology with machine learning to build at-home treatments…
Sharing: All the ways iOS 9.3 will impact school iPad rollouts {via @eschoolnews}
All the ways iOS 9.3 will impact school iPad rollouts | eSchool News In March, Apple upgraded the iPad and iPhone operating system to iOS 9.3 (quickly followed by iOS 9.3.1, which tweaked a few bugs). The lead up to the release caught the eye of the K-12 community, which had been waiting for a…
The difference between a certificate and learning
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There has been much consternation in recent weeks about the amount of standardised testing the British government is determined to impose upon English school children. Children don’t learn any more or any better because of standardised testing, unless there is feedback on how they can improve. But SATs seem to be the weapon of choice…
The ballpoint pen
Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. Source: The cheap pen that changed writing forever – BBC Future A fascinating look at one of the best educational technology tools ever invented, the ballpoint pen. Whenever…