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All this means that you have to be very careful about what you see in articles or on social media. If someone is sharing an image of a Tweet rather than Retweeting it, or sharing a screenshot of a Facebook post, there is a non-zero chance it’s fake. Obviously there’s …
Successful people don’t grow by accident, they grow by design. When you schedule personal development time on purpose, you are making time to design the life you want. You are essentially who you create yourself to be. Once you embrace the “growth” habit, you will improve your way of life. …
… there is one 45-second bit that popped out to anyone who is interested in writing or telling stories. When talking about the frantic rewriting process of their script, Trey reveals his simple rule for rewriting and improving the story. “I call it the rule of replacing ands with either buts or therefores.” Trey says that …
Just how does machine learning work? You’ve probably read a primer or two on the subject, but often the best way to understand a thing is to try it out for yourself. With that in mind, check out this little in-browser experiment from Google named Teachable Machine. It’s a perfect two-minute summary of …
Neuropsychologists of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers performed significantly better and showed an increased brain activity in the brain areas that are relevant for learning. Prof Dr Boris Suchan, Sabrina Schenk and Robert Lech report their …
Researchers Feng Liu, Yong Shi, and Ying Liu set out to test and rank the intelligence quotient (IQ) of various natural and artificial intelligent systems, including humans, Google, Bing, Baidu, and Siri. Based on the tests conducted, Google’s AI has an IQ of 47.28. That ranks just below a six-year …
Everypixel is a AI powered search engine for photos. Everypixel will search 50 online photo repositories and find photos based on what you asked. The AI seems to be pretty good, except on a search for kitten one of the results was this: There isn’t a safe search option, and in …
Tech tools for struggling readers and writers Is algebra worth the time? Applied Digital Skills from Google is a free curriculum based on tech skills
Would you like a text only version of a news site? Well, CNN offers one! The site is available in English and Spanish, and offers text only versions of the news. This could be a good site to use with easily dis-tractable students or as a way to use a …
We’ve been there, the class is studiously working on their Chromebooks, researching ancient Rome when, BAM, a student navigates to a site with an annoyingly loud auto-playing video or ad. For those situations, AutoMute can help. Once installed, AutoMute will mute all of the tabs in the browser. The user can then mute or …
