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April 17, 2023
Parts of the David Rumsey Historical Map collection has been available in the desktop version of Google Earth for quite a while. Recently, almost the entire collection was made av...
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April 13, 2023
QuestionWell is a new AI tool that will generate reading comprehension and guiding questions for just about any article that you specify. Questions created by QuestionWell can be ...
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March 24, 2023
Navigating copyright laws can be challenging for educators, especially when trying to create engaging and informative materials for their students. However, sometimes we might unk...
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February 22, 2023
If you open up your iPhone and see a variety of messages claiming that you’ve been hacked, your phone is not protected, that viruses have damaged your phone, or, my personal favou...
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February 13, 2023
Facebook users need to be on their guard for bogus emails claiming to be from Facebook, that tell users their account has been disabled.
The emails make use of the classic “app...
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February 13, 2023
Four-day weeks are becoming more common in school districts, particularly in rural areas of the U.S. While these shorter weeks are popular with stakeholders, might there be unint...
February 1, 2023
AI Text Classifier is a new tool from Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT, that will detect whether or not a passage of text has been written with ChatGPT and similar AI writing tools....
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February 1, 2023
Dark patterns, also known as deceptive design patterns, occur when a user interface has been carefully crafted to nudge or trick users into doing things they didn’t set out to do....
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December 16, 2022
There are various [ways] to use word clouds. You can use them to quickly scan an article and get an idea of its main theme. You can also use word clouds to summarize a long text,...
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December 15, 2022
Law enforcement agencies want to make sure parents are informed about various apps their kids may be using online.
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December 15, 2022
There is definitely no shortage of calculators around. Most devices are currently equipped with some sort of a built-in calculator. These types of calculators are basic and simple...
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December 14, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you some of the best crossword puzzle makers that you can use to easily create and share a wide variety of crossword puzzles. All of thes...
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December 12, 2022
On Wednesday, the State of Indiana filed two lawsuits against TikTok, Inc, the company behind the same name app, and its parent company, ByteDance.
The first suit alleges TikTo...
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December 2, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you a handpicked collection of platforms where you can access a wide variety of printable Christmas worksheets to use with your kids and ...
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November 2, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you a collection of some of the best online geography games to use with your students and kids to help them learn about the world around ...
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October 27, 2022
Also, allowing students to share their feedback is in itself an empowering practice for students. It empowers them with a voice and makes them feel valued. Knowing that their opin...
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October 27, 2022
It's time to update your Apple devices to ward off a zero-day threat discovered by an anonymous researcher.
As is customary for Apple, the advisory revealing this attack is som...
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October 26, 2022
Google Docs and other Google Workspace tools are always improving! Here are 5 things that you might not know about since they are new! Type in docs.new to try these out! Contiin...
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October 18, 2022
Through distributed efforts students get to develop the social skills of empathy, collaboration, and coordination. Technology has made it even easier for teachers and educators to...
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October 18, 2022
We can delegate some of our decision making work to technology. For instance, activities that require picking out students names can be easily managed using random name picker to...