The death of ed tech, Comic for July, and blurring out images – Top 3 of the week
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IBM’s Project Debater shows the advancement of AI
On a stage in San Francisco, IBM’s Project Debater spoke, listened and rebutted a human’s arguments in what was described as a groundbreaking display of artificial intelligence. The machine drew from a library of “hundreds of millions” of documents – mostly newspaper articles and academic journals – to form its responses to a topic…
The special language Mister Rogers invented for talking to children
Rogers was so meticulous in his process for translating ideas so they could be easily understood by children that a pair of writers on the show came up with a nine-step process that he used to translate from normal English into “Freddish”, the special language he used when speaking to children. Source: Freddish, the special language…
Host self contained web sites in a web address
Itty bitty sites are contained entirely within their own link. (Including this one!) This means they’re… ?Portable – you don’t need a server to host them ?Private – nothing is sent to –or stored on– this server ?Easy to share as a link or QR code Itty bitty sites can hold about as much as a printed page, and there is a lot you can do with…
Is ed tech dead?
Mike Crowley (International School of Brussels) was part of the throng at ISTE ’18, but what he saw caused him to declare the death of ed tech. The particular feature that pushed him over the edge was Google Forms Locked Mode. This will only be available on school-managed chromebooks, but it does address one of…
Image Blur is a web tool that allows you to blur sensitive information on pictures
Image Blur is a web tool that allows you to blur sensitive information on pictures. Source: Image Blur – Hide your important data. A lot of the screenshot tools have the ability to blur out information, but it’s always good to have a web app available for those times when you need to redact data…
Journaling with Gmail, the Acer Chrometab, internet cheating – Top 3 of the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/07/using-gmail-as-a-journal/ https://eduk8.me/2018/07/a-first-look-at-the-acer-chrometab-chromebook/ https://eduk8.me/2018/07/to-stop-cheating-algeria-turns-off-the-internet/
Library of Congress’ Maps that Changed the World site
Library of Congress’ Maps that Changed the World site. Source: Maps That Changed Our World This is a great resource for social studies classes, the Library of Congress’ Maps That Changed Our World and is a must see for anyone interested in maps or the world.