So the latest Apple event happened. I’m always a little disappointed in them. Maybe I put my expectations too high? Anyway, for schools, the big news is the inclusion of the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) and two iLife apps (iMovie and iPhoto) now available for free with new purchases. Too bad they didn’t include Garageband, but for schools… Read more →
iPhone 9-10-2013 Event Predictions
Today is the latest Apple iPhone event, a time when the Internet turns to all things Apple. What will probably be announced The next version of the iPhone will probably be announced, the iPhone 5S. Purported to be twice as fast as its predecessor the other redeeming feature will be the availablility of the 5S in a Champagne color. To… Read more →
Four myths of using iOS devices
First it starts as a tip or rumor, and then it blows up into an integral way you use or believe you can use you iPhone or iPad. Here are 5 such myths. Force quitting apps saves power and makes the phone run faster. IOS devices can’t multitask. The onscreen keyboard is terrible. It never types correctly. You can’t create… Read more →
AMC’s The Walking Dead as a free online course
Online education… and zombies: AMC turns The Walking Dead into a free online course Ahead of the new season of its hit TV show The Walking Dead, cable network AMC has partnered with education technology company Instructure and the University of California at Irvine for an online course based on the popular television series. The eight-week course, titled “Society, Science,… Read more →
Another vision of education in the future
An Infographic on the future of education The future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and learning is going to be social. Schools of the future could have a traditional cohort of students, as well as online only students who live across the country or even the world. Things are already starting to move… Read more →
Looking at the classroom of tomorrow
Technology Transforming the Classroom of the future Technology also allows “running before walking” — meaning kids can experiment with concepts way beyond their years, say using an application to design a roller coaster that could actually work. It makes learning subjects like math much more relevant. And no mention of interactive whiteboards… Read more →
“Fear based” testing regimes are hurting education
Google Glass creator says ‘fear-based’ testing regimes block technology The scientist behind Google Glass wearable technology has criticised the use of restrictive and “fear-based” testing regimes in education, describing a lack of innovation in the system as a crisis. Read more →
Multiple email addresses with one Apple ID
Apple IDs, the center of identification in the Apple universe, have the capability to attach multiple email addresses. By signing into appleid.apple.com you can verify additional email addresses. Once added you can use them with several Apple services, most notably, iMessages. Others can iMessage you with any of the verified email addresses. Read more →
Poverty can be like losing 13 IQ points
In How Poverty Taxes the Brain researchers have found out in one particular study how much poverty affects the brain: In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Warwick, low-income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests, saddled with a mental load that… Read more →
Updating Twitter and Facebook with blog updates
Now that I’ve switched from WordPress to Pelican I’m face with the dilemma on how to update Twitter and Facebook when I post to my blog. In WordPress I used the Social Plugin by MailChimp to automatically post, but plugins are not an option with a static website. But as I was working on a recipe in If This Then… Read more →