Source: A Study of 1 Million Teenagers Reveals This Much Screen Time a Day Leads to the Happiest Kids
I struggle with this myself. It’s not that I’m mindless scrolling through social media, it’s my RSS feeds, news, and ebooks that I use the most. Sometimes a fit in a game or two. Is that a bad thing?
As a previous math teacher, I have a soft spot for the pains teachers and students can feel when trying to use math symbols and expressions in technology. The same thing can be said in science when typing chemical formulas. Technology seems to play best with normal letters and numbers, rather than exponents, subscripts, fractions, and such. Although…
Now you’ve unpacked the Pi you may be wondering to do with it next…and that’s where we come in. Here’s a quick guide to getting started with Raspberry Pi. Source: So you got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas! Now what? – Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi, if you don’t receive it as part of a…
It’s great that we all have a device in our pocket that is as powerful as our current computers. But, it also leads to a terrible work-life balance if you are using it for work, so what are your options? Setting up a separate work phone A few years ago I realized that I didn’t…
Scientists have developed a new system that allows people with no coding experience to teach robots simple tasks, such as grabbing an object and dropping it into a bucket. The system aims to mimic how humans learn, and even allows robots to teach what they’ve learned to other robots. That could allow machines to one…
I received a tweet asking me for suggestions on keyboarding programs for students. I didn’t respond. I couldn’t respond. I am not a fan, and when schools are saying that they are either a) in a time crunch or, b) having limited use of technology, I struggle that we use this precious amount of time…
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…