What is a VPN? It is a way to protect your personal information after it leaves your device. What is a VPN and why would you want one? When you access a website, your traffic travels over several different networks before it reaches its destination. For most people, traffic goes from their device over wifi…
Self-control is a very important skill to develop which is sometimes pretty difficult to learn. According to Laura Markham Ph.D. of Psychology Today1, “Only 30% of 4 year olds can manage their emotions, anxiety and impulses to resist temptation.” Why should that matter? I’m actually surprised that the number is as high as 30%!
Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave Google Takeout lets you download or transfer your data. Enhancing student learning through the IKEA effect More evidence of taking ownership increases learning. Quiznetic lets you build interactive formative assessments Tired of Kahoot? Try Quiznetic.
Not quite useful for school settings, but if you use personal Google accounts, then the family updates will make sharing easier. I can’t wait to try this out with the shared calendar. Right now we have separate calendars for each family member, that’s shared with each person. Which you would think would work swell, and…
Researcher have found that bullying has a lasting impact on the bullied. “Students who experienced more frequent peer victimization in fifth grade were more likely to have greater symptoms of depression in seventh grade, and a greater likelihood of using alcohol, marijuana or tobacco in tenth grade,” said the study’s leader, Valerie Earnshaw, a social…
What do you do when you are stuck working the overnight shift at a hospital reception desk? You become an expert in Microsoft Paint. Turns out, sometimes our resistance to learn something new and master a new skill can lead to something pretty amazing. Pat Hines, who couldn’t be bothered to learn Photoshop and illustrated…
Quiznetic is a free online game maker, allowing you to create a quiz like game for your class. Quizzes are created in the form of a game board, and students run through the quiz asynchronously. That is, each student can answer questions at their own speed, not at the speed of the class like in Kahoot….
Making learning easy may not get the results you desire. In the period of 1920–40 American food manufacturers wanted to reduce the time and effort required to make a cake. They simplified so much the process that the cooks needed to add only water and bake the cake. Unfortunately, the sales of the cake mix…
Asus released the Chromebook Flip C100 mid 2015, a 2-in-1 Chromebook. At the time I couldn’t see the use of a Chromebook in tablet form. But, in 2016, Google announced Android apps were coming to Chromebooks, and the 2-in-1 Chromebook model became a lot more interesting. So much so that I bought a Flip….
Google’s latest AI toy may be its most clever: an automated drawing bot that analyzes what you’re doodling in real time to suggest a more polished piece of clip art to replace it. Called AutoDraw, the software is another of Google’s ongoing creative machine learning demonstrations that it releases as part of its AI Experiments series. It uses…