Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find.
Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. The study, set for release Tuesday, is the biggest so far on how teens evaluate information they find online. Many students judged the credibility of newsy tweets based on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source.
YouiDraw is advertised as “Adobe Illustrator in the cloud”. The website works with vectors, which means the drawings consist of mathematical representations of objects. This is different from raster pictures, such as jpeg, gif, and png. Vector graphics can be resized smaller or bigger, without any loss of fidelity. There are three parts to YouiDraw, Drawing, Logo…
Adding a timer to a Google Slides A neat little hack to show a timer on a Google Slides. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting Use conditional highlighting to highlight an entire row, not just a cell. ⓔ Use Google Photos for managing your classroom photos Getting started with using Google Photos in…
Use RSS to stay up to date is part 7 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. When I see RSS as part 7 I’m filled with doubt. I believe I should have put this at 1 or 2, but I must have had a reason I put it where I did when I…
Data-driven instruction is one of those buzzwords in today’s educational landscape. We hear all about data, but if your experience is anything like mine, you’ve never really been trained to do much with it. Sure, we give pre-assessments and set goals for post-assessments, growth, and student success, but it often feels like we’re doing so…
