On a larger scale, this love affair with data—what Berkeley geography graduate students Camilla Hawthorne and Brittany Meché termed “fetishized numeration” in their Space & Society article—is visible in corporate, academic, and policy circles. At UC Berkeley, Chancellor Dirks wrote in March that “Across all of higher education, faculty and administrators are increasingly recognizing the…
Source: CodeCampus Academy So you’re burned out with all of the sites out there that help students learn to code, and you are feeling envious that they have options and you don’t. Well, time to turn that frown upside down with CodeCampus Academy, professional development for teachers to learn coding! The service helps you get started…
What jobs will be available in 30 years? The robots are coming, the robots are coming! Accessing Windows and macOS file sharing with Chromebooks An option for transferring files back and forth from Chromebooks that don’t rely on the cloud. Create ascii drawings with asciiflow Draw flow charts… IN TEXT!
In 2015 Elijah C. Stroud published The Story of My Minecraft Life on Amazon. Available for Kindle and in paperback, it recounts Stroud and his friend’s journey playing and building in the blocky game environment. Stroud followed it up with The Last Day of Minecraft, which came out in early 2016. According to the description…
Nobody likes change, but the fact is that change is at our doorstep. Changes in technology are quickly beginning to force the hands of schools and districts across the world. This poses some good news for students, as transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that provide relevance, value, and tangible skills…
When I see a great light display, I rarely consider the effort and meticulous planning that goes into it. While I was going through my decorating process on Friday, I couldn’t help but think of the parallel to our classrooms. When great instruction is happening in our classrooms, we often don’t think of the effort…
According to research from Office Team, 63% of senior managers said their company is “very supportive of their staff’s efforts to achieve work-life balance.” However, only 34% of employees agreed with this statement. This is a significant change from a similar work-life survey conducted 10 years ago in which 45% of senior managers characterized their…
For example, robot journalists in the Associated Press wrote thousands of stories last year, mostly about listed companies’ earnings and sports news. The automated technology has proved to be highly accurate in reporting on standardized topics, and was extremely fast. A report on a listed firm’s results could be churned out in a second. AP’s…
Google’s new app, available in the Chrome Web Store, lets you easily access files on a network server from within Chrome OS. Source: Chromebooks can now seamlessly access Windows network file shares | PCWorld Although the article focusses on Windows file sharing, macOS computer can use the same networking protocol, SMB. This means that the…
From the I didn’t know I needed this department comes ASCIIFlow. Are you tired of having your diagrams being fancy? Would you like to go back to a simpler time of diagramming, where you only need a hyphen, plus sign, or capital X? Then ASCIIFlow is for you. I could see this being used to draw up simple graphs…