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Chesterton’s Fence
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If you’re not paying for the service, then you’re the product
The state of privacy in America from the Pew Research Center Fully 91% of adults agree or strongly agree that consumers have lost control of how personal information is collected and used by companies. So our online habits are being mined by companies, is that a bad thing? Arguments can go back and forth. For…
Martian perseverance
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On February 18, 2020, NASA landed the rover Perseverance on Mars. Half of all Mars missions end in failure, who knew it was so hard to land on a planet millions of…
Sharing: Should I Download That App? A Ten Question Checklist for Choosing Tools Worth Your—and Your Students’—Time
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Extrinsic rewards are not the best way to motivate students
“Rewards are constellations of attributes, and firms should focus more on the motivational effects of the attributes associated with a reward rather than the reward type itself,” Presslee said. “Results confirmed that each of these attributes – individually and in combination – increases employee effort and performance.” Source: Cash may not be the most effective…
Chrome OS has stalled out
We live in a world where the Chromebook, and Chrome OS, should be thriving. But increasingly, it looks like Google’s cloud-first laptop platform has hit a dead end, and I’m not sure there are many available detours that can get it back on track. Source: Chrome OS has stalled out
