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History teacher and class discover Boston’s own Forest Gump
The Briefcase …they slowly uncovered the life of a man who not only oversaw the liberated Dachau but also found himself a participant in an uncommon number of consequential events throughout Massachusetts and U.S. history. In a way Delaney couldn’t have imagined when he first popped open the suitcase that day, Joyce would turn out…
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Increase your cognitive flexibility with Starcraft 2
Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter Playing Starcraft, according to the study, “stresses rapid and simultaneous maintenance, assessment, and coordination between multiple information and action sources was sufficient to affect change.” The result of playing real-time strategy games such as Starcraft is “an underlying dimension of cognitive flexibility” across several laboratory tests. Now maybe…
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#tlah Getting started with virtualization using VirtualBox
Do you want to check out Linux on your current machine safely, leaving your current set up untouched? Virtualization allows you to do this using VirtualBox. We are investigating this method to integrate BYOD with our 1 to 1 program. Wikihow has a nice write up on how to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Keep in…
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Apple is allowing you to download older versions of apps that are compatible with your current OS
Over at Reddit there is a screenshot that shows Apple giving the users of older devices the ability to install the last compatible version of an app for their current OS. Hopefully this will continue, it’s very frustrating on my original iPod touch to not be able to find any apps that install on iOS…
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#tlah Push notifications on the cheap
Taking control of your notifications is nice, but sometimes you want to be able to customize alerts. For iOS there are apps such as Boxcar, Pushover, and App Notifications. These apps are nice and do the job, but they require a little more setup and/or they cost. As I was working on my iPhone for…
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Almost half of U.S. jobs could be replaced by the computer in 20 years
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being…
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The technology every school needs
School air conditioners: Kids need to learn. Baltimore County will be closing its public schools early today due to the unseasonable heat. We’re also seeing school closures widely in the midwest. And it really is hot. But all across the region things that aren’t schools are staying open thanks to the miracle of climate control…
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Six months too young for the iPad?
Discovering That Your 18-Month-Old Is Using an iPad in Pre-School On a recent summer day in Nashville, Kara Teising opened her Facebook page for a lunchtime scroll through her timeline when she discovered a photo posted by her son’s daycare: an image of her 18-month-old son surrounded by other toddlers, their chubby faces glued to…