The fundamental question of education technology was posed by one of its seminal figures, Seymour Papert: will children program computers or be programed by them? In a new book, The App Generation, Katie Davis and Howard Gardner revisit that question …
Search Mind Cipher for Your Next Brainstorming Session Warm-up Activity
Mind Cipher is a collection of brain teasers, logic puzzles, and riddles submitted by members of the Mind Cipher community. All submissions placed into one of ten categories. The categories include mathematics, logic, lateral thinking, and physics. All submissions are …
Three Tools to Stop Companies Spying on your Web Browsing
Want to limit the ability of companies to track what sites you visit online? Check out these tools that shut down common ways used to track browsing habits.
http://www.zdnet.com/three-tools-to-stop-companies-spying-on-your-web-browsing-7000022774/…
3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter
If the list of accounts you follow on Twitter has gotten a little unruly over the years, we can help. We’re highlighting three useful tools that will allow you to analyze and manage the accounts you follow to improve your …
Presentation of the Week: OERs and Open Online Courses
Which technologies will have the biggest impact by 2025?
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The Beginner’s Guide to Google+
Google+ has established itself as the second-largest social media site in the world and boasts a monthly active user base of 235 million. Learn how to use it with this great beginners’ guide.
http://mashable.com/2013/10/27/google-plus-beginners-guide/
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What to do if your social media account has been hacked or hijacked
It’s hard to know what to do in these situations so we’ve prepared a primer on how you can deal with attacks if your social media account were to be compromised.
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/10/27/social-media-account-hacked/…
The 11-Minute Guide To All 8 Intelligences
The video below explains the basic concept of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, its impact on educational strategies, and provide some concepts that would allow education to reach more learners and develop the learner’s skill in a more comprehensive manner.…
Add Voice Comments to Google Documents With Kaizena
Kaizena is a handy tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents. It’s a good tool for giving audio feedback to your students.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/add-voice-comments-to-google-documents.html
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Captcha Fail: Researchers Crack the Web’s Most Popular Turing Test
Captcha is the the gold standard for Turing tests on the web: Whenever an online form wants to check if you’re a human being and not a spambot, it asks you to decipher one or two distorted words, presented as …
How to Copy Someone Else’s YouTube Playlists
Many YouTube users have curated relevant videos about specific subjects into playlists that you can watch on any device with a click. This article will show you how to clone a Youtube playlist into your Youtube account. This is helpful …
Digitally Archive Your Handwritten Doodles With ‘Draft’
For writers, artists and thinkers who still prefer ink pens to keyboards, there’s now a way for handwritten memos and doodles to live on digitally. Draft is a service that that scans your physical notebooks and archives them in a …
Two Distraction-Free Writing Platforms for Teachers and Students
Writing is a thinking process that requires an environment that nurtures creativity and production and there is nothing better than a distraction-free platform. Today I am introducing you to two relatively new writing tools that you can use with your …
How to Encrypt (almost) Anything
Encrypting your data makes it completely unreadable to anyone but you or its intended recipient. Best of all, much of the software used in offices and on personal computers already has encryption functionality built in. You just need to know …