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I have wrote here in my blog about using Padlet in EDU and yesterday the company itself announced that they are switching to a subscription model. They say there will always be a free option but it...

Complaining is about who you are, not the world around you.

Many schools and classrooms would love to have their own app but the skills and/or cost of developing an app is often beyond our immediate reach. Google Slides offers a clean solution to your app d…

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Media multitasking, using two or more medias concurrently, prevails among adolescents and emerging adults. The inherent mental habits of media multitasking—dividing attention, switching attention, and maintaining multiple trains of thought— have significant implications and consequences for students’ academic performance. The goal of this review is to synthesize research on the impacts of media multitasking on academic performance. The research indicates that media multitasking interferes with attention and working memory, negatively affecting GPA, test performance, recall, reading comprehension, note-taking, self-regulation, and efficiency. These effects have been demonstrated during in- class activities (largely lectures) and while students are studying. In addition, students struggle to accurately assess the impact media multitasking will have on their academic performance. Further research should attend to understanding effects of media multitasking in more diverse instructional contexts and for varied academic tasks. Fostering students’ self-regulation around media multitasking is a promising area for future efforts towards improving academic performance of college students.

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The most important leadership choice of the day is choosing how you show up.

Do you like graphic novels or comic books? Are you interested in learning how to code? If you answered, yes, then you’ll love Dystopia 2153! This brand new, three-episode series teaches kids …

In its April issue, a writer at The Atlantic makes the argument that “retweets are trash.” Whereas once if you wanted to repeat something someone

A simplified ed tech evaluation process is on the horizon.

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Everyone's talking about encryption, but finding yourself lost or confused? Here are some key encryption terms you need to know.

Travel booking website Orbitz has announced it discovered a possible data breach that exposed information for thousands of customers. The incident, discovered by the company on March 1st may have exposed information tied to about 880,000 credit cards.

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In 2014, Cambridge Analytica played a key role in harvesting profile data from more than 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook executives waded into a firestorm of criticism after news reports revealed that a data firm harvested private information from 50 million users.

A DATA analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign reportedly tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission. The data leak allowed C…

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flickr photo shared by mrkrndvs under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license SAMR is an acronym standing for substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition. It is a model for looking at the integration of technology into education. It is often used to support staff with how to make better use of technology within the classroom. Devised […]