11 edtech trends to watch in 2017. The Frugal Mama Files: Meal Planning: How we eat well on a $75 weekly budget. 19 Healthy Make Ahead Lunch Bowls. I’ve created a new Facebook group to help us keep in touch!
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Beginning in elementary school, we teach students to "take notes" so that they can maintain a record of the content disseminated to them by the teacher. And yet, with mobile devices replacing paper notebooks, this process has become increasingly complex as students (and teachers) struggle to apply previous strategies to new tools. In the past, I wrote about the 4Ss of Note Taking With Technology. Students should choose a system that: Supports their learning needs Allows them to save across devices Possesses search capabilities Can be shared. The Joy of Typing – The Message – Medium. How to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind – The Coffeelicious – Medium. Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally. The Joy of Typing – The Message – Medium. That said, the pro-handwriting folks are also correct.
Handwriting fires up mental modes that are usefully different from typing. When it comes to note-taking during a lecture, being a really fast typist can — as the researchers reported in the Atlantic found — nudge you into bad habits. In the presence of a lecturer or interview subject, typing seems to turn us automatically into transcriptionists, trying desperately to capture verbatim the incoming words, instead of trying to ingest and distill their meaning. The real reasons you procrastinate — and how to stop. iStock Have you ever sat down to complete an important task — and then suddenly discovered you were up loading the dishwasher or engrossed in the Wikipedia entry about Chernobyl?
Or perhaps you suddenly realize that the dog needs to be fed, emails need to be answered, your ceiling fan needs dusting — or maybe you should go ahead and have lunch, even though it’s only 11 a.m.? Next thing you know, it’s the end of the day and your important task remains unfinished. Did Media Literacy Backfire? – Data & Society: Points. Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs.
Others are clamoring for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and labeling. Both of these approaches are likely to fail — not because they are bad ideas, but because they fail to take into consideration the cultural context of information consumption that we’ve created over the last thirty years. The problem on our hands is a lot bigger than most folks appreciate. Kids & Tech - MS PA 1/13/17 - Google Slides. You are More Powerful than Your Devices (Multitasking and Self-control in the Digital Age) Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching. If you’re a first-time investor with, say, $15,000 in savings, you have plenty of options these days.
Newfangled robo-advisers like Betterment and Wealthfront will happily take your money, as will incumbents like Charles Schwab, which have launched improved digital products. But if you’re starting at zero, with practically nothing in the way of savings, you would have found few options designed to serve your needs—until now.
There are suddenly half a dozen startups eager for your first saved dollar. They aspire to grow with you, transforming your initial commitment into a healthy nest egg. But for the foreseeable future, they have set themselves up to manage small accounts—$100 here, $1,000 there, growing by maybe $5 or $10 per month. The results are varied. Mka. This webpage provides technology guidance for students, faculty and staff that will not be returning to MKA next year.
Please complete a final backup prior to returning your MKA-issued laptop and charger (two chargers for faculty/staff) to your campus Tech Center. You will keep your external backup drive with all of their personal data and files. All of your data and settings will be erased from your laptop after it is returned. Your various MKA accounts will be discontinued at the end of June.
This includes Google Apps for Education, @mka.org email, Evernote premium, NoodleTools and Moodle. Please visit/contact your campus Tech Center if you have any questions. Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone. On a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from a man in pajamas called “Honey Bear” and wrote down his pseudonym for the night: “Presence.” Harris had just arrived at Unplug SF, a “digital detox experiment” held in honor of the National Day of Unplugging, and the organizers had banned real names. How Technology Hijacks People's Minds. From a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist Estimated reading time: 12 minutes.
