In 2016, Tristan Harris, whose job title at Google was “design ethicist,” left the company to focus on a new nonprofit he called Time Well Spent. The goal of Time Well Spent is to reverse what it calls “the digital attention crisis” — the brilliant minds at Google, Apple, Facebook, and elsewhere who “hijack our minds”…
Create animated movies with Plotagon. Source: Plotagon • Animated movies and avatars for education, business, and fun Plotagon is an animation software package for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Plotagon Story is a free version that includes 4 characters and 2 scenes. There are additional characters and scenes available, some for free and some that cost….
Use Gif Lingua to support reading in your classroom with gifs! Source: Gif Lingua Gif Lingua offers illustrated books online, with a twist. The illustrations are usually animated gifs and the books can be accompanied by a computerized voice reading the book to you. Grade levels for the books are approximate 1-3, although the subject matter…
Search Google Drive from your Google Chrome address bar. Google Chrome has the ability to add searches to the url with a keyword, so why not set it up to search your Google Drive. To get started, right click on the URL bar in Google Chrome and select Edit search engines… Click on Add on the right…
Quickly open a word definition with the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension. Google Dictionary (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Once installed, a pop up will now show when words are selected on a web page. Along with the definition is a speaker icon which will read the word out loud for the student. This would…
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We posit that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate employees’ perceptions of subsequent social interactions leading them to perceive greater workplace rudeness throughout their workday. We expect that these contaminated perceptions will have important ramifications for employees’ work behaviors. Source: PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET Think about that student that comes to…
Serious people sometimes make silly predictions. Source: The Future of Education Will Never Arrive History is littered with failed experiments, but these failures are what have brought us the world we have today. Cynicism aside, computers will get better at understanding people, and when that happens, who knows what will happen. To get an…
Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email. Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Sending a link to the current page would seem to be a very useful feature, but it’s not built in to Google Chrome. That’s where the Send from Gmail extension comes in. Once…