Although it’s often out of our hands due to various services suffering data breaches or compromising our confidential, personally identifiable information, you can still protect yourself to some degree. Here are a few of the things I do: Banking and Credit Get alerts via your bank mobile app …
Over the last few YEARS, I’ve kept Readdle Documents app on my iOS phone. It’s been a handy app to have and I started using it when it was free. Unfortunately, they’ve switched to a subscription model that is $9.99 a month with recurring billing. While a part of me feels bad about …
These are great suggestions to adopt: Rejoice in what you have, cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of your will, make the best of what is in your power and take the rest as it comes.
Anyone who watched a teacher work through the pandemic, facilitating remote learning, knows how important teacher-student relationships are. There are people out there, though, who think kids are being indoctrinated at school. Unfortunately, some see SEL as a problem: “What’s clear is that there is …
I often think that I will be learning about and how to apply critical thinking for the rest of my life. 🤣 3 Signs You’re a Scientific Thinker You follow the evidence. Philosopher David Hume stated, “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” You know which evidence is trustworthy and …
Watching news on television, reading articles about how the melting polar ice caps are changing the Earth’s mass enough to affect how our clocks, I have to admit, it’s a bit much. It almost makes you wish for a checklist, right? Heatwave Increased hurricanes Forced human migration …
Wow, this is…so wrong. Given that Snapchat encrypted the traffic between the app and its servers, this network analysis technique was not going to be effective. This is why Facebook engineers proposed using Onavo, which when activated had the advantage of reading all of the device’s network …
Bummer. Daniel Kahneman died. He was the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. You can read an overview here. In a New York Times article about Kahneman, Steven Pinker said of Daniel’s work: “…human reason left to its own devices is apt to engage in a number of fallacies and systematic errors, so if …
In every town, there’s a street with a sign board with a huge hand. The hand beckons passersby, hoping to attract their attention. The hope of a response that provides direction draws people in. The desire to get certain information about an uncertain future is a powerful pull for some folks. …
I honestly hadn’t ever heard the concept of scientific consensus before reading about it while exploring Melanie Trecek-King’s Thinking Is Power website. There’s so much that seems to have been left out of my education, and I wouldn’t be surprised a lot of folks haven’t …
Prevagen…a proven memory aid to help you remember stuff, or a well-funded example of pseudoscience? Consider this popular commercial sharing an anecdote from someone who claims to be a real person (aren’t we all?): Of course, Greg Faley IS a real person. He’s starring in a …
Earlier this week, I had a chance to revisit my thoughts on educational technology in the classroom. “We need to get back to pen and paper,” said a colleague today. The statement was a reflection of some of the conversations going on at the State level. A part of me cringed a bit to hear …
Love these two images from Eric Partaker that highlight concerns about management that I am sure many of us have encountered: And
What a fascinating perspective and from Aldous Huxley. I don’t recall learning about this while reading his book. How funny we learn what made them famous but not what impelled them to greatness. It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. Man …
How fast does it take people to get addicted to AI? How many minutes does it take to get addicted? Microsoft reports that all it takes is eleven minutes a day for 11 weeks (11 x 11 is the AI tipping point). They describe it in this way: A time savings of just 11 minutes a day was the magic number …
In World War Z movie, Brad Pitt’s character says to a family in Spanish, “Movimento es vida,” or “Movement is life.” In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, you have to keep moving to stay ahead of the horde coming to consume you. The same may be true of how to avoid dementia. Consider: individuals …
Here’s a 3-2-1 on book bans in libraries, which National Public Radio (NPR) reported as increasing in 2023. Photo by Slav Romanov on Unsplash The American Library Association reported that: The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the …
Problem I was a few days ago old when I discovered my smart health tracker also keeps tabs on my location and movements, available to the police. Well, at least I think that it does based on my viewing of the latest CSI: Las Vegas (cue music). Photo by Dushawn Jovic on Unsplash Everyone I know is …
Limit that screen time for younger humans, including television time…new research suggests… a reduction in screen time for toddlers exhibiting sensory processing symptoms, coupled with sensory processing practices delivered by occupational therapists. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) …
My colleague, Lindsay Zilly, shared this opportunity…Check it out: LEGO® Build the Change and Take Action Global are excited to announce open call for registration for the 2023-2024 Institutes. Accepted educators will have the opportunity to join for a free, month-long educator experience with …
Attention Smart home devices get compromised every day. Whether it’s your security camera to a baby monitor, your privacy is increasingly at-risk. Interest An estimated 672 million households are expected to use smart home devices by 2027. What can anyone do about cybersecurity challenges …
Attention “Your teacher said you misbehaved in class. Bow your head and pray for guidance and how you can better behave in class,” said Rev. Johnson, a chaplain at a public school in Texas. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Can you see public schools where your school counselor has been …
What a disappointing development, if not for sports, for America’s claim to prizing diversity: Black college athletes should rethink any decision to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, the NAACP advised in an extraordinary letter issued in response to efforts by Gov. Ron …
Someone asked me recently for AI resources and a scope and sequence. I couldn’t help but wonder, “Why aren’t you using AI interactively to put together a scope and sequence?” The response shown in this blog entry could be developed a lot more through some interactive …
Need something to read? Check out this book, Computational Thinking Education in K-12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Physical Computing: A guide to computational thinking education, with a focus on artificial intelligence literacy and the integration of computing and physical objects. Get …