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Advertisers are notorious for watching what you do and where you go online. That’s valuable and very profitable information. Here’s one way to stop some of the spying.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2022/10/02/how-delete-hidden-trackers-invade-your-browser/10441047002/

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The use of videogames as an educational tool in the higher education classroom is becoming increasingly common. Research has demonstrated that the use of educational videogames (serious games) can lead to meaningful learning outcomes. However, very little work has been …

I wanted to know what would happen if I suddenly gave up my smartphone – whether I’d feel better or worse, more productive or less capable of doing my job. Like so many others, I’d treated my phone as a …

Forget Google Drive, USB-C cables, flash drives and labyrinthine third-party apps! There’s a much easier way to transfer photos, documents, and videos from your PC to phone — it’s a wireless, lightning-fast method, too.

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/this-pc-to-phone-transfer-method-is-so-easy-why-didnt-anyone-tell-me-about-it…

Over the past three pandemic-interrupted school years, as educators scrambled to respond to the greatest disruption to schooling in over a century, a common refrain emerged: Don’t return to the way things were.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0922/School-2.0-How-has-the-pandemic-changed-learning…

Don’t want to pay for Photoshop, or don’t like it? Try these alternatives that come at no cost.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-alternatives-photoshop/

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The rapid pivot to online education following the outbreak of COVID-19 has meant universities and other schools around the world were suddenly leaning heavily on educational technology to facilitate remote lectures and exams. Resources for teaching online are still in …

A Mozilla report found feedback buttons didn’t stop the majority of similar recommendations.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23356434/youtube-dislike-not-interested-buttons-bad-recommendations-mozilla-report

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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system in Canada and around the world received an unexpected shock as schools, colleges and universities closed and people began working and learning from home. As faculty, instructors, students, administrators, policy-makers …

What makes increasing your knowledge even easier is that you can do so from anywhere using your smartphone, tablet, or even a Chromebook that can run Android apps. The various education chosen for today’s roundup proves that learning new things …

Making word clouds doesn’t have to be time-consuming, the Word Art word cloud generator does the work for you. Here’s all you need to do.

https://www.makeuseof.com/word-art-how-to-make-word-clouds/…

The creation and use of NFTs or (non-fungible tokens) are popular topics of emerging technologies.  How will NFTs be used in the world of work and, more importantly for us, in education? What do we need to know to help …

Blooket is a game-based learning platform that allows teachers to create educational games to share with students. You can host live games that students can play using a generated ID or assign games as homework for students to play at …

Students using the Moodle learning platform can now listen to learning content in more than 50 languages, thanks to a new integration with digital voice and text-to-speech tool ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker is the first text-to-speech provider to become a Certified Integration …