How did I miss this before?!? Free resources from Open Culture

How did I miss this before?!? Free resources from Open Culture

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…

Harvard’s Music Lab is here to test your music skills

Harvard’s Music Lab is here to test your music skills

Source: The Music Lab The Department of Psychology at Harvard University has opened The Music Lab, an attempt at learning how humans use music. Right now there are four different tests you can take online. I took the tone-deafness test, and was better than 60% of the people who have taken the test. I’m a little disappointed…

A list of cross-curricular Scratch activities from Harvard

A list of cross-curricular Scratch activities from Harvard

What’s in this list? In this collection of Scratch projects, we’ve tried to represent the vastly diverse ways that Scratch can be used across subject areas and grade levels. Though we have divided the projects by subject area, almost all of these projects are interdisciplinary.   How can I use this list? In addition to interacting with…

It only takes one device to hack a network

It only takes one device to hack a network

A corporate laptop being used in a coffee shop at a weekend was enough to allow a sophisticated cybercrime group to compromise an organisation’s entire infrastructure.   The incident was detailed by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike as part of its Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook 2018 report and serves as a reminder that laptops and other devices that are secure while…

An entirely free 9th grade computer science curriculum from Carnegie Mellon University

An entirely free 9th grade computer science curriculum from Carnegie Mellon University

“Think, Khan Academy on steroids.” “This isn’t ‘drag and drop’ programming. We’re teaching [kids] to use Python, a text-based programming language that is the most widely taught language at the university level.” Professor David Kosbie Currently, CMU’s CS Academy is running its second pilot program of its initial course offering, a 9th grade CS1, Intro…