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American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong — Quartz
By promoting “pop computing” apps to kids in schools, we aren’t doing the hard thinking that defines what the subject of computing is today, and most importantly, what it can be in the future. A new approach to learning mass computing is needed to get 55 million students in 130,000 public schools to learn to…
2. Waiting on folder (from 13 Gmail hacks for teachers – http://u.eduk8.me/13gmailhacks)
This is part 2 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. As we learned yesterday, we want to reduce our cognitive load of dealing with emails by getting them out of the inbox and into a system where we don’t have to remember what we need to do, but can easily find what we need to…
Dollar Street, macOS touch typing, and browser tab tricks – Top 3 for the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/06/see-how-families-live-around-the-world-with-dollar-street/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/keykey-typing-tutor-for-the-mac-teaches-touch-typing-through-muscle-memory/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/a-list-of-17-keyboard-shortcuts-for-browser-tabs/
It’s the Environment, Stupid « Annie Murphy Paul
“Rather than consider noncognitive capacities as skills to be taught, I [have come] to conclude, it’s more accurate and useful to look at them as products of a child’s environment. There is certainly strong evidence that this is true in early childhood; we have in recent years learned a great deal about the effects that…
Leprechaun traps, smartphones in schools, and teen screen time – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/03/comic-st-patricks-day-trapping/ https://eduk8.me/2018/03/the-smartphone-role-in-schools/ https://eduk8.me/2018/03/researching-how-much-screen-time-makes-the-happiest-kids/
The Five Questions That Most Define My Work – Will Richardson
I’ve been thinking about the questions that drive my work a lot of late. I’m wondering which are really worth pursuing, as in which do I think actually have an answer that is within reach of both my feeble brain and my time left on Earth. (Change in schools is very slow, in case you…