I feel like my teachers always emphasized the importance of group work but kind of threw us to the wolves to figure out how to do it, especially when we are all supposed to be equal players with no manager to oversee the final product. Can you recommend any resources for how to do effective, professional group work among peers?
Somewhere between education and entertainment lies a sweet spot. MinecraftEdu — rereleased as Minecraft: Education Edition — hit square on the mark by bringing game-based learning to subjects like anatomy and art history. Now, Nintendo’s Pokémon GO mobile game appears poised to find its target too. The augmented reality app, released just one week ago,…
Easily create QR Codes in Google Sheets with the QR Code Generator add-on. To use the add-on, put the data you want converted to QR Codes in cells in column A. The data can be text, email address, website addresses, etc. In column B, put a description of the QR code. This will be used to name…
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with…
An option to control the flow of email in Gmail from students is to have your Google Apps for Education (GAFE) administrator add a footer to student emails. In the footer, the administrator could put a hashtag such as #studentofSCHOOL where SCHOOL is your school district or building. The idea is that the tag is something unique. Your…
drumbit is an online drum machine that works without a log in. Using the drum machine is pretty simple. Click in the beat where you want an instrument to play. Clicking on the play button will play your masterpiece. Your sets can be saved, and the sequence can be downloaded as a .wav file to be…
Today’s generation of fighter pilots could be the last of their breed, thanks to an AI system dubbed ALPHA that’s proving unkillable in air combat. The US Air Force has just completed dogfighting trials in a simulator, pitching the software against retired Air Force Colonel Gene Lee. The AI – which ran on a $35…
