With the Common Core’s emphasis on data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus on using technology to deliver content and collect data rather than cultivate learning and stimulate cognitive development.Using education technology isn’t so much about students mastering a device or procedure so much as it is about mastering themselves first.
I’ve seen assessment tools used by teachers in the belief that the tools are an instructional tool. Just because you can get pretty graphs out of a piece of software does not mean it can be used as an instructional replacement. Assessment tools have taken over a lot of edtech, because they are easy to use to generate pretty graphs under the guise that student use of the tool is teaching students. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week With it being summer and me not wanting to get burned out, for June and July the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter will be links…
As she neared 24 straight hours of playing Dead Space, Kaitlyn Richelle watched in shock as a $250 donation flashed across her screen. “That’s the goal,” she shouted. “That’s the tuition.” She paused her Twitch stream, struggling to get a full sentence out. She had just raised $5,000 to help pay for medical school. Source: Meet the streamers using…
In my initial post about Android on the Asus Flip Chromebook, I wrote how it was pretty easy to get the Amazon App store up and running. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. At the time, my Chromebook was in Developer Mode. This mode is different from the Developer Channel for ChromeOS. Developer Mode removes a…
Twitter announced several upcoming changes to the format of the Tweet and how tweets will be treated in the future. The goal is to open up more characters to be used in the tweet itself. Replies When you reply to a tweet, the @USERNAMEs will not count as characters in the tweet. The limit will…
Hundreds of millions of people play intellectually-demanding video games every day. What does individual performance on these games tell us about cognition? Here, we describe two studies that examine the potential link between intelligence and performance in one of the most popular video games genres in the world (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas: MOBAs). Source: Exploring…
Auto-playing videos have become the “punch the monkey” of today, read on to learn how to stop auto-playing videos in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari! We’ve all been there, browsing news.google.com and clicking on a news article when WHAM, a video starts playing. Not only is it annoying, you usually have your volume turned up, annoying everyone….