Through the wonder of t and some custom Python, I grabbed a list of Twitter users who tweeted with the #oetc18. Anyone I miss? Let me know! @33Struke David Strukel Massillon, Ohio native, educator @Hiramcollege, Ph.D. @BGSU, now Dr. Struke! @3PLearning 3P Learning A place for schools and families to love learning. The award-winning team…
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If society learns to value motivation as much as intelligence or leadership skills, it could be an enormous boon for children. Source: Highly motivated kids have a greater advantage in life than kids with a high IQ Intrinsic motivation that is, it isn’t about external rewards such as stickers or money.
The “Best Footprint Forward” project explored what children know about digital footprints. Focus groups were made up of 33 children aged 10-12 years from three schools in regional NSW. Analysis of the focus groups reveals children have strategies to keep safe online, but they need further guidance on how to build a positive digital footprint….
Because implementing artificial intelligence would create new positions—such as people who would train machines or ensure that the machines do not, say, hurt humans—the Accenture analysis found that employment could increase by 10 percent due to the increased need for human-machine collaboration. Humans would need new digital skills to collaborate with machines, and “human-interface designers”…
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Summary: A new study reveals exposure to dim light might impact memory and learning. Researchers report rodents exposed to dim lighting lost 30 percent of hippocampal capacity and performed poorly on spatial tasks they had previously experienced. Source: Dim Light May Make Us Dumber – Neuroscience News The rats were kept in a bright, 1000 lux…
It’s another year for the Ohio Educational Technology Conference so it is time to update my conference checklist! 1. Set up a hashtag shortcut on my phone Under iOS, keyboard shortcuts can be set up to speed up typing. For the #oetc18 hashtag, I will set up a keyboard shortcut for ooo, which will expand…
But the focus on code has left a potentially bigger opportunity largely unexplored. In the past, people were educated, and learned job skills, and that was enough for a lifetime. Now, with technology changing rapidly and new job areas emerging and transforming constantly, that’s no longer the case. We need to focus on making lightweight,…