Teachers in August #Eduk8Meme

A ton of announcements came out of the Google I/O 2018 keynote yesterday, but the most exciting is that Linux is coming to Chromebooks! I mentioned two years ago what a game changer Android apps will be for Chromebooks, and this is even bigger! Students will be able to edit videos, create and modify graphics…
Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances — like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints — as sources for meaning and joy….
You can only live your life asleep or awake. There isn’t any in-between. You are mentally here, or you are mentally elsewhere. This is the reason changes oftentimes doesn’t happen. Source: Going Through Life Asleep – Drew Tolbert I love the thought experiment he proposes.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s groundbreaking 1968 Demo – also known as “The Mother of All Demos.” It was there at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference that Doug and his team at SRI first presented their seminal work in personal and collaborative computing to the world – this was…
Calculator apps are funny, you don’t think about them until you need them, and then you want them to work fast and then get out of your way. Calculator for Google Chrome works well for that. Once installed, Calculator adds an app that you can launch from Google Chrome that does what it says it does, and…