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Your brain is not putting its best foot forward when reading text.
By analysing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential information.A recently completed study indicates that the human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity…
My 5 free favorite teacher tech tools for 2021 #YouTube
These are my top 5 FREE tools for teachers. Not just freemium where you get a few features for free, I’m talking about services in which you get ALL access for free. The list also doesn’t include any Google tools. Canva Adobe Spark Loom for Education Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Davinci Resolve
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…
Technology troubleshooting and mindset
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology troubleshooting and mindset When I’m working with others, I have a question I use to figure out their mindset: When technology goes wrong, what do you do? If they answer that they…
Chromebook security, ChatGPT in the classroom, and laptops as barriers to learning – Of bits and bytes for May 1, 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 Everyone in the tech industry is constantly updating to keep things secure, and Google is no different. An upcoming ChromeOS (the operating system running…
