But the best of the best use Google Sheets differently than most. The experts use Sheets to automate their work. To help you take your Google Sheets game to ?, meet David Krevitt. David is the Mozart of Google Sheets. Ha, 2017 composer! Time-consuming tasks which take most entrepreneurs hours, David is able to do in just minutes. (Thanks,…
Fingers, blocks, pebbles and a myriad of other physical manipulatives are all tools helping students problem solve. But does that usefulness carry over when physical manipulatives give way to digital ones? The answer is a resounding yes! In her dissertation paper “Do Gestural Interfaces Promote Thinking?” published in 2011, Ayelet Segal, confirms that interactions with touch screens are effective in…
Gravit Designer is a cross-platform vector graphics program. In the past I’ve recommended Boxy SVG as a way to edit vector files on Chromebooks. Boxy SVG works pretty well, but it doesn’t have near the features that Gravit Designer includes. Gravit Designer is a cross-platform tool that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and in the browser. Apps…
New research by scientists at Michigan State University suggests that laptops do not enhance classroom learning, and in fact students would be better off leaving their laptops in the dorm during class. Although computer use during class may create the illusion of enhanced engagement with course content, it more often reflects engagement with social media, YouTube videos,…
Few saw the Chromebook coming. When it launched half a decade ago, the category was broadly maligned for its limited feature set, middling hardware specs and operation that required an always-on internet connection to work properly. But things change in five years. In 2015, the category overtook MacBooks in the U.S. for the first time ever, selling…
My new laptop is an Asus Chromebook C302. My laptop history I’ve bounced between macOS and Linux for my laptops over the past 10 years. My latest laptop was a Lenovo Yoga 11″, on which I ran Ubuntu Mint a majority of the time. I could dual-boot into Windows, but I very rarely did that….
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To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military. Source: Chicago won’t allow high school students to graduate without…
The think-tank examined the relation between social media use (including online time) and mental illness: While twelve percent of children who spend no time on social networking websites on a normal school day have symptoms of mental ill health, that figure rises to 27 percent for those who are on the sites for three or…
The cliché is a fifty-year-old asking some ten year old student for help in making the computer work. Having trouble making working with your device or your software? Just grab one of those digital natives to handle it for you! Well, not so fast. Here’s Jenny Abamu at Edsurge saying what I’ve been arguing for over…