🙋♂️ Of bits and bytes for May 27, 2024 (Summer Links Only Special)
Internet Travels
Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week
With it being summer and me not wanting to get burned out, for June and July the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter will be links only. Hopefully that won’t be too boring for you, but I also want you to get a chance to recharge. The full newsletter will return in August!
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Apps
- Visual Studio Code for Education will be generally available at the end of the month – Neowin
- You can now send emails directly to a Google Chat space
- AI For Students – Magic!
Pedagogy
Technology
- Custom GPTs open for free ChatGPT users – The Verge
- New Chromebooks with generative AI for Educators
- ChromeOS 125 is rolling out with tons of new features
- How one school district is turning to AI to solve its bus driver shortage – CBS News
- Chromebook Plus Hands on: The Best Part Isn’t AI
- I put GPT-4o through my coding tests and it aced them – except for one weird result | ZDNET
- Tabbed PWAs for Chromebooks will be a game-changer web apps
- New 'Add to Chromebook' badge and tabbed PWAs are coming
- Gordon Bell, Legendary Designer of Computers, Dies at 89
Tips
- gemini-for-google-workspace-prompting-guide-101.pdf
- I read Google’s 70-page Gemini prompting guide, here’s what I learned
- How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
Pop Culture
- In-person friendships are better for health than virtual connections – The Washington Post
- 8 Things You Should Never, Ever Say To A Teenager | HuffPost Life
- Do smartphones really cause mental illness among adolescents? Ten problems with Jonathan Haidt’s book – Parenting for a Digital Future
- The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens – The Atlantic (Archive)
Potpourri
- How Permanent Behavior Change Really Works | Psychology Today
- The true story behind the kid who went 1940s viral for his week at the cinemas in San Francisco – Gazetteer SF
Extra Credit
Here are extra links that I found interesting that may or may not be education related or interesting to you and I didn’t want to lose them.
- Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers | Ars Technica
- Why AI Can't Replace Teachers – John Spencer
- Digital Leisure Reading Does Less to Aid Comprehension Than Print Reading | Tech & Learning
- My Secret to Creative Rejuvenation? Conferences. – The New York Times (Archive)
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