Collect and archive tweets with Twitter TAGs
TAGS – Twitter Archiving is a Google Sheet extension that can be used to collect and archive Twitter searches. This looks like a great tool for your classroom to collect tweets.
Practice, Practice, Practice – steps to internalization
Source: [Image] The 4 Stages Of Learning – Keep practicing that skill or habit until it’s internalized. : GetMotivated I came across this graphic on Reddit, and thought it would be something I could share in the classroom. It goes along with the concept of failing and learning.
Coding and the brain
It’s true: programmers think differently than everyone else. Not to say that programmers are necessarily smarter, more logical, or more rational than everyone else, as is commonly said. But scientists have recently started studying the brains of programmers and have come to some interesting conclusions. Source: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to…
Collection of internet safety resources
Over the past few weeks we have been taking an ever increasing look at web resources that we can share regarding Internet safety. Here are some of the best ones and a brief description of the contents of each link: Source: Welcome to Chris Hamady .com – Journal – Internet Safety Resources A great collection of safety…
Google advanced search, comic, and reading research – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/03/easily-use-googles-advanced-search-tools-with-the-google-chrome-extension-fast-advanced-google-search/ https://eduk8.me/2018/03/comic-we-probably-deserve-it/ https://eduk8.me/2018/03/increased-letter-spaces-increases-reading-speed-and-fluidity/
New book, The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
We are raising the anxious generation, and the conversation about the causes, and the potential cures, has just begun. In The Self-Driven Child, authors William Stixrud and Ned Johnson focus on the ways that children today are being denied a sense of controlling their own lives—doing what they find meaningful, and succeeding or failing on…
Some doctors are using practices that don’t work
The news last fall that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo ought to be shocking. Each year, hundreds of thousands of American patients receive stents for the relief of chest pain, and the cost of the procedure ranges from $11,000 to $41,000 in US…
Increased letter spaces increases reading speed and fluidity.
“Generally speaking, our lab is interested in learning about how kids learn to read. More specifically, we want to know how the brain activity of kids that have difficulty learning to read differs from those who are not.” said Elizabeth Sacchi, a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University. “Through some of my studies, I came across…
Easily use Google’s advanced search tools with the Google Chrome extension Fast Advanced Google Search
Google has several advanced tools for searching the web, but, they require several clicks to use. Fast Advanced Google Search is a Google Chrome extension that gives you quick access to these advanced tools. Once installed, the extension can be invoked with an alt-G, with the cursor focus in the Keywords box. From that point on, you can…