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Technology in pandemic teaching
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
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Child care and equity
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
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Probes
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
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Everipedia
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
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ebooks are the future
Librarian and blogger Doug Johnson has a new post on the future of ebooks and concludes that digital books are the future. I have tried to make this same point multiple times mostly challenging the argument that comprehension is better … Continue reading
Is the web dead or is it dying
A post with the title “The web is dead” got me thinking about this topic and the arguments made by the author. Of course the author is using the term “web” in a specific way. His reference is to web … Continue reading