New Year’s resolutions are a lot easier to create than they are to keep. Luckily, Goals in Google Calendar is there to help you find time for the things that matter. Set a goal like “run 3 times a week,” and Calendar will help you find the time and stick to it. Starting today, we’re adding new ways to make sticking to it even easier.
The system is getting in the way. Sir Ken Robinson has counseled education leaders all over the world. He’s seen what works and what doesn’t. And there’s a lot we can do in the United States — and in other countries — to improve. Take standardization and competition. We’re mass-producing lessons and units for the…
Google is pushing their machine learning to new and interesting processes, and is now applying their AI to Google Photos. New features Google can now find older photos of recently photographed people, making it easy to remember those moments with friends and family. Google photos can now put together an album of a subject of…
“This is so new for teachers, whereas librarians have been doing this for ten years,” said Paige Jaeger, a school librarian turned administrator and co-author of Think Tank Library: Brain-Based Learning Plans for New Standards. According to Jaeger, librarians were some of the first educators to realize that the Internet made finding information (their bread and…
Computer note-taking was a point of contention at my school. Almost every teacher used laptops. But we varied in how much we allowed students to take notes on them during class. Those in the no-computer-notes camp pointed to how often students were distracted by messaging and social media. Those who allowed laptops for notes argued that…
Source: Chrome OS Capture Mode: Say hello to your Chromebook’s new snippet tool I would bet that it won’t be as nice as screencasting tools such as Screencastify or Loom, but I could image several scenarios where it would be really nice to have a screen recorder built in.
See how families live around the world with Dollar Street Dollar Street is a project where Anna Rosling Rönnlund interview families around the world and photographed the families. This photos are used on the website to show a fictional street, where the poorest families are on one end of the street and the richer families live at…
