The note-taking app Notion is now free for college students and educators
Notion, the sleek and sophisticated note-taking app, is going free for the education market. The company said today that teachers and students who sign up with an academic email address will get a free upgrade to the premium version of the software, which entitles them to unlimited uploads, storage, and version history features. The service has…
The newest digital risk for students, ‘Sharenting’
“Sharenting” – where parents share personal information about their children on social media – is the “weakest link” in risking online fraud and identity theft, warns Barclays. The bank says parents are compromising their children’s future financial security with so much online sharing. Source: ‘Sharenting’ puts young at risk of online fraud – BBC News…
Knowing what to ask is more important than just knowing
Fans of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy treasure the bit where a group of hyper-dimensional beings demand that a supercomputer tells them the secret to life, the universe and everything. The machine, which has been constructed specifically for this purpose, takes 7.5m years to compute the answer, which famously comes out as 42….
Instead of wirelessly projecting your mobile device, use Chrome Remote Desktop to control your computer
Source: Chrome Remote Desktop Hat tip to Lance Yoder over at Edgaged.net for this tip. In his district, instead of trying to wirelessly display a mobile teacher device, he flipped it. Instead, the teacher uses Chrome Remote Desktop to control a PC hooked up to the TV. This set up bypasses most of the issues…
Students are not very good at identifying good instructional techniques
What they’ve found is that an approach called active learning (also called active instruction) consistently produces the best results. This involves pushing students to work through problems and reason things out as an inherent part of the learning process. Even though the science on that is clear, most college professors have remained committed to approaching…
Quickly enable or disable Chrome extensions with Extensity
Source: Extensity – Chrome Web Store There are times when you want to quickly disable or enable an extension, without going through the process of opening the extensions tab. Extensity adds an icon to your toolbar to quickly enable or disable an extension. After clicking on the icon, all of your extensions are shown. Disabled…