The myth of the digital native
The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking. Source: The digital native is a myth I love the quote, “yeti with a smartphone”.
Teaching by machine learning
Certainly teaching in a school where everything is recorded and deposited into a computer is pretty creepy. But is “hyper-personalized” instruction, driven by massive amounts of data and delivered by screen, really the future of learning? Or is it just the future for kids whose districts have the money to buy into this kind of…
Gmail labs being retired – no more Quick Links!
Retiring several Gmail Labs: Gmail Labs serve as a great testing ground for experimental features. Successful labs graduate, and low usage labs often retire. With the announcement of Gmail Add-ons, enterprises will soon gain the ability to add modern integrations in Gmail, which in some cases will replace or improve the functionality provided by some…
Conditional formatting, Twitter book club, Chromebook filtering – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2017/08/use-conditional-formatting-google-sheets-analyze-data-grades/ https://eduk8.me/2017/08/running-twitter-book-club/ https://eduk8.me/2017/08/securly-offering-chromebook-filtering-free/
Focusing on mistakes
Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. You raise your hand, you give your…
Artificial intelligence in education
To explore what machine learning could mean in education, EdSurge convened a meetup this past week in San Francisco with Adam Blum (CEO of OpenEd), Armen Pischdotchian, (an academic technology mentor at IBM Watson), Kathy Benemann (CEO of EruditeAI), and Kirill Kireyev (founder of instaGrok and technology head at TextGenome and GYANT). EdSurge’s Tony Wan moderated the session. Source: Real Questions About…
Running a Twitter book club
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Dr. Katie Toppel. Dr. Katie Toppel is a K-5 English Language Development Specialist in Oregon. She also works as an Adjunct Professor for Portlan… Source: Guest Post: “PD in your Pjs: How to navigate #EllChat_BkClub on Twitter” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Great tips…
Securly is offering Chromebook filtering for free
“The Chromebook filtering market has become commoditized, and we believed that the time had come to offer our Chrome extension free for public good. Student safety is our priority, and we believe that this offering will spur further innovation in the web-filtering space by pushing other players to try harder” said Vinay Mahadik, Co-founder/CEO of Securly. Source: Web…
Fighting our smartphones ability to make us dumber
The more we use smartphones, the dumber we become. Research has found that having a smartphone physically nearby actually causes us to perform worse on tasks than those who’s smartphones were in another room. In other words, the mere presence of your smartphone reduces your cognitive capacity even if you’re not conscious of the affect. Source: How…
Start Creating
How to be a Doer. Source: Stop Consuming. Start Creating. – The Mission – Medium There is no shortage of articles promoting creation over consumption! This is a good thing.