Fact checking, comic, and Edtech – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/5-unbiased-fact-checking-sites/
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/comic-buckle-down/
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/does-edtech-improve-or-harm-education/
Totally different paths taken with the opening up of GPS data vs education data. Yet all of the research (and the debate about education data) has created the illusion of ubiquitous education data. Instead, in practice, the parallels between education and GPS fall apart in some key ways. First, while the decision to end selective…
Thanks to the early focus on preventing cyberattacks, Chromebooks are also a hit with the security community. Security experts commonly recommend Chromebooks, whether it’s for the relative who somehow always ends up with spyware toolbars or the researcher heading to a hackers’ meetup. And it’s not about complicated encryption or security tricks — Chromebooks have…
How to Print a YouTube Video – Storyboard Bookmarklet Yes, you read the title right, this bookmarklet allows you to print a Youtube video. Introducing Google Cast for Education Google Cast allows the teacher’s computer, that is attached to the projector, to act as a Chromecast device for the student’s Chromebooks in the classroom. Google…
This site currently has 1,612 free high-resolution national park maps to view, save, and download. Source: National Park Maps | NPMaps.com – just free maps, period. Via: A huge collection of high-res National Park maps A great source of maps for classrooms studying map reading, national parks, land features, and more!
In version 80 of Chrome, Google added an extension to the URL standard that it hopes will be accepted and supported in other browsers. Google calls the standard text fragments. Text fragments are links that contain not only the location of the document, but what text to link to in the document and highlight. Here…