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📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-01-19
Ed photos for the week Reading? Assessing – “…will better align instruction with assessments” means “will facilitate teaching to the test.” Imagine being so clueless about learning, or so beholden to the imperative of corporate profit, that you talk about this as if it’s a good thing. NEW @educationweek post: “Classroom Cellphone Use Is Fraught….
People prefer pain instead of thinking hard
Thinking takes real effort. It requires sustained attention. Scientists have known for some time that focusing your mind consumes considerable metabolic resources. But in our day-to-day lives, we discount the effort needed to pay attention and think because it doesn’t feel as physically strenuous as, say, lifting a 50-pound weight. Source: To Avoid Thinking Hard, We Will Endure…
What will AI do to the quality of work?
When everyone can create great works, what will it mean to be truly great at something? When AI Makes Us All Da Vincis AI has the potential to upend what it means to create, and by extension, what it means to be an amazing creator. Thanks to generative AI, you’ve got more than just potential…
Search for free sound effects with FindSounds
Source: FindSounds – Browse for sounds Who doesn’t need sound effects? Whether it is for that multimedia project or that Scratch game, everyone needs a sound effect at some time or another. FindSounds is a search engine for free sounds. Unfortunately, even though you can play and download the sounds for free, who own the…
✍ Figma is free for school Chromebooks, new features on Chromebooks, and examining educational technology – Of bits and bytes for June 26, 2023
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps While Figma, the interface design software, may not be well-known in the education space, it is very well known in the business space. So…
Read text with the Reader Pen
Source: C-Pen Reader Although it is pricey at $250, the C-Pen Reader could be very useful for people with reading difficulties. The C-Pen Reader is a device that can read printed text to the reader just by scanning the text with the pen. That’s pretty cool!