Similar Posts
The death of ed tech, Comic for July, and blurring out images – Top 3 of the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/07/is-ed-tech-dead/ https://eduk8.me/2018/07/comic-july-is-the-worst/ https://eduk8.me/2018/07/image-blur-is-a-web-tool-that-allows-you-to-blur-sensitive-information-on-pictures/
What the green padlock in your browser really means
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with…
{Coding} Why students should code, from a 15 year old programmer
Imagine if you grew up around people but never learned the language they spoke to each other. Wouldn’t it be absurd? Yet, technology powers almost everything in today’s world and most children have no idea about language it speaks. This rapid growth of technology requires a rapid pace of education to follow it, but it is pretty…
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — The Startup — Medium
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does…
Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It. | EdSurge News
In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. But what has been left unsaid is how our…
