Creating mobile apps, taking notes, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
Create mobile apps from a Google Sheet with Glide The pros and cons of taking notes on the computer {Comic} Summer is Coming […]
Kids are finding out that their digital footprint is being created by their parents
For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids in this story, is referred to by a pseudonym—discovered that her mom had been posting photos of her, without prior approval, for much of her […]
Bullets.tech is a great website for tech news summaries
Source: Bullets.tech | Notes for busy minds Trying to keep up with science and technology news can become overwhelming. Bullets.tech is a website that breaks down science and news articles to five bullet points. This would be great for helping students find things they are interested in or keeping up with science news. […]
Classrooms are getting Oculus Rift VR headsets around the world
Although virtual reality may be experiencing slow adoption in the consumer market, one area where it seems to have truly untapped potential is in the classroom where virtual worlds could help students visualize and learn about history, science, and culture in an unprecedented fashion. To capitalize on VR’s increasingly instrumental role in visual education, Facebook-owned Oculus […]
The pros and cons of taking notes on the computer
Computer note-taking was a point of contention at my school. Almost every teacher used laptops. But we varied in how much we allowed students to take notes on them during class. Those in the no-computer-notes camp pointed to how often students were distracted by messaging and social media. Those who allowed laptops for notes argued that […]
Create mobile apps from a Google Sheet with Glide
Source: Glide – Amazing apps from Google Sheets I’m planning on writing a longer article on using Glide, but it looks way too cool not to share now. For free, you can create a mobile app based on a Google Sheet. For now, here is their intro video on the website. […]
Fortnite, Surgeon Dexterity, and Programming – Top 3 of the Week
The Dangerous Effects of Fortnite Because of screen time and lack of hands-on activities medical students don’t have the dexterity to learn their job Replacing the Foreign Language Graduation Requirement with Programming […]
The Dangerous Effects of Fortnite
“They are not sleeping. They are not going to school. They are dropping out of social activities. A lot of kids have stopped playing sports so they can do this.”Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital, was talking about the impact “Fortnite: Battle […]