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The Social Dilemma is a recent Netflix documentary from Jeff Orlowski. The video explores digital social media services and processes those responsible for these services use to maximize the commitment of viewer attention and the negative consequences of these processes. … Continue reading →

Wakelet is a great free classroom tool for creating and sharing collections. These collections might be personal or group efforts and might be generated to serve a variety of educational goals. I have written about Wakelet previously. This effort is … Continue reading →

This opportunity requires immediate action if it sounds interesting. Justin Reich, author of “Failure to disrupt” (a book about why technology has not played a larger role in education) is offering a free presentation entitled – What the History of … Continue reading →

The challenge and the inequity of child care has become quite visible during the pandemic. The issue has been there in the past few decades but not widely discussed. It is now obvious how important child care is to the … Continue reading →

This is a continuation of my series on data literacy Probes provide a way to collect information from the environment and summarize it numerically. You use a probe when you check someone’s temperature with a medical thermometer or a thermometer … Continue reading →

Wikipedia has a challenger in the category of user created encyclopedia content. Everipedia (the encyclopedia of everything) is based on a blockchain model. The new platform is being promoted by notables including the cofounder of wikipedia. I am not certain … Continue reading →