Googling, a comic, and success indicator – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/google-like-a-hacker/
https://eduk8.me/2019/09/comic-current-status/
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/moving-past-the-marshmallow-test-to-predict-future-success/
Learning a few keyboard shortcuts and navigation tricks is one of the best ways to improve your productivity. Used effectively, they are a lot faster than reaching for the mouse every couple of seconds. Shortcuts are especially useful when you’re surfing the web. Traditionally, browsing web pages and navigating through tabs is very mouse-intensive….
It’s distressing to think that the sound of a baby crying reduces our mental agility just at the moment when we most need it. But it helps to take the long view of parenthood and its effects on our intellectual capacities. In her wonderful book The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, journalist Katherine Ellison reviews…
Today, open educational resources (OER) are an increasingly common feature in the K–12 education ecosystem. As one example, consider the popularity of Khan Academy, whose library of practice activities and videos are accessed each month by over 10 million users around the world and in many schools across the United States. Similarly, as school systems…
One underutilized feature of word processors is the ability to apply styles to text. I’ve mentioned styles in Google Docs before, but today I want to look into why you would use styles. In simplest terms, styles allow you to consistently format your document while also allowing you to change the look of an entire…
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