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Throughout the course of a day, teachers find themselves pulled in many directions. However, technology is already integrated in nearly everything we do and nearly every job our students will encounter. Poida. Technology and Teaching: Finding a Balance. Technology and Teaching: Finding a Balance. 11 Times 'The Simpsons' Predicted the Future of Technology. JasonElsom : Have you been for a .... Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber? Can a calculator make you smarter?
The QAMA calculator can. You use it just like a regular calculator, plugging in the numbers of the problem you want to solve — but QAMA won’t give you the answer until you provide an accurate estimate of what that answer will be. If your estimate is way off, you’ll have to go back to the problem and see where you went wrong. If your estimate is close, QAMA (developed by Ilan Samson, an “inventor-in-residence” at the University of California, San Diego) will serve up the precise solution, and you can compare it to your own guess. An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992–2013. Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37-year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection--as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone.
So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through an oral history of Apple's design, a decoding of the signature as told by the people who helped create it. A longer version of the story that includes material not published elsewhere is available in the Byliner original ebook, Design Crazy. "This is our signature," Apple's gauzy television ads proclaim, referring to the familiar words that the company stamps on the undersides of its products: designed by Apple in California. The ads fall in the grand Apple tradition--beginning with the "1984" Super Bowl spot--of seeming to say a great deal while revealing little. The singular Cupertino computer company is one of the most intensely competitive, pathologically secretive organizations in the world. So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency.
Reasons_for_Use_of_Technology_in_Education.png (PNG Image, 700 × 4000 pixels) - Scaled (16%) The Star. Reasons_for_Use_of_Technology_in_Education.png (PNG Image, 700 × 4000 pixels) - Scaled (16%) Reasons_for_Use_of_Technology_in_Education. eSchool News How technology has changed our idea of 'knowledge,' and what this means for schools. While technology hasn’t transformed education to this point, it definitely has transformed learning, researcher David Weinberger argues—and this shift has important implications for educators By Dennis Pierce, Editor in Chief, @eSN_Dennis Read more by Dennis Pierce Before the internet existed, humans had a very different concept of what “knowledge” was.
Before the internet existed, humans had a very different concept of what “knowledge” was, says researcher David Weinberger. This concept was defined by the physical properties of the dominant medium for sharing information back then—paper—and the limitations it placed on this process. YouTube. An Introduction to Technology Integration. An Introduction to Technology Integration.
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Thanks for your patience! Hello and thanks for your interest in Mailstrom — the best way to clean up your inbox and achieve inbox zero! Because of some very favorable and widely-shared coverage in Lifehacker yesterday, the Mailstrom community nearly doubled in size in about four hours! Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required. @pdok: It's not necessarily illegal if you buy a legitimate copy of Mac OS X.
It may violate the license agreement (and that's far from a settled question, as is whether the license agreement is even valid to start with), but that doesn't make it illegal. Free eBook: 154 Brilliant iPhone (and iPad) Tips. Too Cool Not to Share. Did you know you can add your own keyboard shortcuts on the iPad or iPhone?
How about some faster ways to reject suggested auto-corrections as you type, or write contractions, or a single-tap method to magnify and select text? This free eBook from Michele Ballard is jammed full of handy, cool techniques like these. I recently downloaded this book from the iBooks Store and was so impressed by the first few tips alone that I knew I had to share it here. Most of these tips will work on the iPad too. Tips are organized into sections like “Keyboard and Writing Tips”, “Mail and Calendar”, and so on. Are ROMs Really Necessary on a Nexus Phone? I rooted my Galaxy Nexus last night, and got a lot of people asking me this very question.
I'm curious about you other Nexus users: Do you use a custom ROM? Why or why not? I'm already pretty stoked on some of the other features CyanogenMod has to offer. Can't believe I didn't do this sooner! I always ran custom ROMs on my HTC devices because I didn't use the stock launcher anyway (LauncherPro pre-ICS, Nova thereafter) and the HTC ROMs were sometimes missing features I really liked. Top apps to outfit a new iPad or iPad mini. You know the scenario: a friend or family member got an iPad or iPad mini as a gift this week.
Now they want to know what to do with the pretty slab of aluminum and glass. The App Store can be an overwhelming place, with programs that can transform the iPad into a word processor, a MIDI instrument, or a 3D gaming machine. That variety can be daunting if you are sampling the App Store for the very first time, but here's a place to start for those new to tablets. We chose a few popular categories that cover some of the most common usage scenarios, then listed the top app in each that we would recommend to a friend. In some categories, we also mention alternatives that might appeal to those with more specialized tastes. Image editor The iPad's screen is great for editing images, and photo buffs have no dearth of options for editing images while on the go. Must-have apps for your new Android tablet. Know someone who emerged from this holiday season with a new tablet in hand—and they now want your advice on what to do with it?
An Android device is only as good as the apps you install, so we've drawn up a listed of some top Android apps for tablet newbies. The apps we've chosen below are not necessarily new or edgy, but we've field-tested them all and find them solid choices for a wide variety of users wanting to get started with some basic tablet tasks. (See our iPad version as well.) How To Tell If Your Boss Is Spying On You. The new tech battleground: Tearing down walls, building bridges. This article is part of Next, The Globe's five-day series examining the people, places, things and ideas that will shape 2013. Call it a TV guide on steroids. The NextGuide is an iPad application that helps users find out exactly what shows are on at any given time, in any given place. The app, developed by San Francisco-based start-up Dijit Media and released this fall, acts as a personalized program guide, following its users’ watching habits and suggesting new content based on those habits.
If the app notices you’re a fan of movies starring Bill Murray, it may give you a heads up the next time Ghostbusters is playing, or when Mr. Murray is due to appear on Letterman. “People always say ‘I have 500 channels and there’s nothing to watch,’” said Jeremy Toeman, chief executive officer of Dijit Media. At the core of the NextGuide is a simple but powerful concept. “What we’re doing adds value to everybody in the food chain,” Mr. 6 Reasons People Use Twitter. 10 Ways Social Media is Transforming our Culture and World. It’s 2012, and yet I feel more calm about our future than ever before. The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular.
Someone had pruned the 71 best YouTube covers of the track from the 350,000 or so available. 30 Things You Should Not Share On Social Media. I don’t know whether you have started to notice that a lot of people are wanting help with their cows and ducks on Facebook (and I am finding it a touch annoying as I am not fond of cows),this activity is due to a very popular online game called Farmville. What prompted me to write this list germinated when the few Farmville updates turned into a stream and then became a raging torrent.
On Facebook you can actually turn this stream off in the settings section which is a good thing as I have stopped counting sheep when trying to go to sleep and started counting bovines… by the way Mashable have a post that shows you how to block those fascinating Farmville updates. For those of you who are statistically minded… the Facebook-platform game FarmVille has So what have the settings for controlling Farmville streams have to do with not sharing certain things on Facebook. How Virtual Private Networks Can Protect Your Mobile Device. Home » Security » Networks » How Virtual Private Networks Can Protect Your Mobile Device Needing a safe way to communicate through the World Wide Web has never been more crucial. You no longer need a computer to log on.