That’s the conclusion drawn by researchers at San Diego State University studying sleep-deprived American teenagers. After conducting a meta-analysis surveying more than 360,000 subjects, they concluded that decreasing sleep time comes at the expense of increasing screen time. “Teens’ sleep began to shorten just as the majority started using smartphones,” states Jean Twenge, Professor of…
When a neighbor asks her what she’s doing on her computer, the girl replies ‘What’s a computer’ making the not-so-subtle point that an iPad Pro is more than enough computer for many tasks. Source: Apple Posts ‘What’s a Computer’ Video Promoting the iPad Pro – MacStories I’ve tried out using an iPad as my mobile…
Source: ActiveLit Via: “ActiveLit” Lets Students Play & Create Choose Your Own Adventure Games In Virtual Classrooms | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… To create the stories, you use Quest to write interactive fiction. Quest is available online and as a Windows download. The stories play out very much like the Choose Your Own…
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Dr. Anna Konopka, the 84-year-old New Hampshire physician who recently lost her medical license in part due to a lack of computer skills, has an uphill battle ahead of her. In two lengthy phone interviews with Ars on Tuesday, Konopka said if she is reinstated by the state’s medical board—at this point, a big if—she would…
Copying and pasting content into individual slides can be tedious. There has to be a better way! Now that Google Apps Script allows us to code Google Slides I have some new templates for you to try! The Doc to Slides Add-on will allow you to take content from a Google Doc and push it…
Source: SlidesCarnival – Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations Are you tired of the default themes in Google Slides? Then check out the free templates from SlidesCarnival! To use one of the templates, scroll to the bottom of the template page. There are two buttons, one to download the Powerpoint template, the…
Source: Anchor – Radio, reinvented Although you can do some of the work for the podcast from the browser, you’ll need to use one of the mobile apps to unleash all of the power. Anchor is the easiest way I’ve found to record and share audio. It’s as simple as hitting the record button. Each recording…
This article isn’t about coding, it’s about teaching kids how to think and solve problems in a structured manner. 6 years ago, Netscape pioneer Marc Andreesen published an essay in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software is Eating the World.” This article is now nearly 6 years old, which shows that even 6 years…
An 84-year-old doctor in New London, New Hampshire, appeared in state court Friday in an effort to regain her medical license, less than a week after closing her office on October 28. State authorities claim that—because Dr. Anna Konopka doesn’t have a computer, much less know how to use one—her organizational skills are lacking, according…