Laptops and lectures, writing, and Chromebook shortcuts – top 3 for the week
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Using machine learning to write better
Using the Quill tool, students complete a variety of exercises, including joining sentences, writing complex sentences, and explaining their use and understanding of grammar. The tool relies on a huge depository of sentence fragments, which Quill finds, recognizes and compiles using TensorFlow, Google’s open source machine learning library. TensorFlow technology is the backbone of the tool…
Being analytical and motivated are required to think critically
In a world where accusations of “fake news” are thrown around essentially at random, critical thinking would seem to be a must. But this is also a world where the Moon landings are viewed as a conspiracy and people voice serious doubts about the Earth’s roundness. Critical thinking appears to be in short supply at…
Clean up or upscale photos with Let’s Enhance
Source: Let’s Enhance – free online image upscale and enhancement with neural networks As soon as I find some of my old 640×480 digital pics, I’m going to try this out and see what the site can do to those pics. I started out with a Sony Mavica camera in the 90s, which was amazing…
Looking at the lost words of childhood
Written by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris, The Lost Words is a collection of words related to the natural world that are fading from our children’s minds as the “wild childhood” disappears from western society. Source: The Lost Words What a cool sounding book!
Should laptops be banished from lectures?
Step into any college lecture hall and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor speaks. But you won’t see that when I’m teaching. Though I make a few exceptions, I generally ban electronics, including laptops, in my classes and research seminars. That may seem…
Customize your searches in Google Chrome (and on Chromebooks)
If you do a certain kind of internet search over and over again, customizing your search engines in Chrome can make that much easier. For me, obviously, it’s searching The Verge, but I also have custom engines set up for YouTube, Amazon, news from the past week, and a few more things. So, for example, when…
3D scanning, fantasy maps, and learning games – top 3 for the week
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Create your own fantasy maps with these generators
Source: Maps Mania: Fantasy Map Generators Need to generate a city or land map for activities in your classroom? Then check out this list of Fantasy Map Generators