“Password” your Google Form, text to mp3, Google Photos – Top 3 for the week

“Password” your Google Form, text to mp3, Google Photos – Top 3 for the week

“Passsword” protect your quiz in Google Forms Create a password for your Google Forms Create an mp3 of translated text with Sound of Text Not only text to mp3, but translated text to mp3. Using your photos from Google Photos in Google Drive Directly use your Google Photos in your Google Drive documents.

Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom

Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom

A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth. William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known…

Universities must enter the digital age or risk facing irrelevance | Toronto Star

Universities must enter the digital age or risk facing irrelevance | Toronto Star

To start with, big universities are still offering what I call the broadcast model of learning, where the teacher is the broadcaster and the student is the supposedly willing recipient of the one-way message. It goes like this: “I’m a professor and I have knowledge. Get ready; here it comes. Your goal is to take…

Learning, a Little Bit at a Time « Annie Murphy Paul

Learning, a Little Bit at a Time « Annie Murphy Paul

Of course, near-instantaneous knowledge transfer may sound too good to be true. Can learning really happen in 5-minute increments? The answer is yes, but there are caveats. For the learning to be effective, HR and training professionals must carefully craft their offerings and understand that not all training and development can happen on the fly….

Do Smartphones Help or Hurt Students’ Academic Achievement? – The Atlantic

Do Smartphones Help or Hurt Students’ Academic Achievement? – The Atlantic

I next contacted Richard Freed, a clinical psychologist and the author of Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age, who works with a wide range of children and families in the San Francisco Bay area. “High levels of smartphone use by teens often have a detrimental effect on achievement, because teen phone use is…

50% of teens feel addicted to their phones, poll says – CNN.com

50% of teens feel addicted to their phones, poll says – CNN.com

Fifty percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices, according to the poll, which was conducted for Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on helping children, parents, teachers and policymakers negotiate media and technology. A larger number of parents, 59%, said their teens were addicted. The poll involved 1,240 interviews with parents…