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Performing a Google search, reading at college, and 10 more weeks comic – Top 3 of the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/06/drag-words-to-the-address-bar-or-new-tab-button-to-perform-a-google-search/ https://eduk8.me/2018/06/a-story-on-the-difficulties-university-students-face-when-reading-more-than-200-words-at-a-time/ https://eduk8.me/2018/06/comic-10-more-weeks/
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How rudeness can affect your day
We posit that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate employees’ perceptions of subsequent social interactions leading them to perceive greater workplace rudeness throughout their workday. We expect that these contaminated perceptions will have important ramifications for employees’ work behaviors. Source: PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET Think about that student that comes to…
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Waiting for the future of education
Serious people sometimes make silly predictions. Source: The Future of Education Will Never Arrive History is littered with failed experiments, but these failures are what have brought us the world we have today. Cynicism aside, computers will get better at understanding people, and when that happens, who knows what will happen. To get an…
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Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email
Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email. Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Sending a link to the current page would seem to be a very useful feature, but it’s not built in to Google Chrome. That’s where the Send from Gmail extension comes in. Once…
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A story on the difficulties university students face when reading more than 200 words at a time
I’d suggest that happiness for students might arise from challenge, from hard work fairly rewarded, or from the acquisition of new skills. But there is of course a quicker route: you keep students happy by not failing them. And then – surprise! – when they graduate they are not literate, or numerate, or knowledgeable enough…
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Drag words to the address bar or new tab button to perform a Google search
Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar. This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted…
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Encyclopedia Britannica, free icons, and a bathroom break – Top 3 posts of the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/06/help-your-students-evaluate-internet-resources-with-the-britannica-insights-chrome-extension/ https://eduk8.me/2018/06/over-a-million-icons-are-available-in-the-noun-project/ https://eduk8.me/2018/06/comic-bathroom-breaks/
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10 things to do on your iPad
When I reflect back to early versions of iOS and the workarounds that teachers and students used to have to jump through hoops to complete through third-party applications, the iOS operating system has come a very long way from where it used to be. Source: Ten things every educator should be able to do with their…
