Chromebook controls, passion, and coding – Top 3 of the Week
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“I think [coding] doesn’t actually teach important skills.”
On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged children. These books are part of a flood of resources—summer coding camps, after-school code clubs, apps designed to teach kindergarteners the…
What the green padlock in your browser really means
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with…
Gamification in HS government and Econ
I got the chance to go into Mike Franz’s high school gov & econ class when they were playing YOLO, a year-long game where one week of school represents one year of life. The first week of the game the students are 18 years old, the last week of the game they are near retirement…
The problem with passion in schools
Over the past several decades we’ve continuously increased the amount of time that children spend at school, and at schoolwork at home, and at school-like activities outside of school. We’ve turned childhood into a time of résumé building. You don’t build passions by building a résumé, trying to impress other people. You build passions by…
Chromebooks are getting parental controls
Parents care deeply about helping their kids build a positive and healthy relationship with technology. Last year, we introduced the Family Link app to help parents stay in the loop with how their children are using Android devices. Laptops also play an important role at home, with just over 50% of kids between 6-12 sharing…
How computers work, conserving sound, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/12/the-abstraction-of-how-computers-work-is-causing-students-to-be-confused-on-what-goes-on-inside-a-computer/ https://eduk8.me/2018/12/do-you-want-to-hear-what-extinct-technology-sounds-like-conserve-the-sound-has-you-covered/ https://eduk8.me/2018/12/comic-precision/