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Google is adding a Personal search tab
Under the More tab on the search results tab Google is adding a Personal tab. Selecting it searches your personal information stored in Google. Selecting Personal searches for matching data in your Calendar, Gmail, and Photos. It doesn’t appear to search Google Drive for content though. The Personal tab is only showing for personal accounts right now, and there isn’t any…

ⓔ Reflect the unread messages in your Gmail Inbox with Google Labs Unread message icon
By default, the favicon for Gmail is the boring old Gmail logo: . There is a way to update that icon, and have the favicon reflect the number of unread emails in your Gmail inbox. To do this, you will need to go to the settings in Gmail by clicking on the gear icon, , and then…

Looking back at 1990s technology
In this 50-year retrospective, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on the world, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad. Source: Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from WorldWideWeb to Google Hard to belief we are 20 years past the introduction of the PalmPilot! I wish…

Why Do So Many Schools Want to Implement Project Based Learning, But So Few Actually Do? | EdSurge News
In a world where so much knowledge is a two-second search away, many schools are losing interest in models that promote static learning to know. They’re looking to embrace dynamic models that promote learning to do and learning to be. Project-Based Learning (PBL) allows learners to develop skills by solving meaningful, real-world challenges , i.e. organizing…

The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning – Education Next : Education Next
In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…

Let’s talk about Mac backups
I was browsing Reddit instead of working, and stumbled upon I just lost all my writing. Let’s add this as a warning for anyone using a newer Mac (since they started adding the T2 chip for security). iMac Pro Mac mini introduced in 2018 MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later MacBook Pro introduced in…