Growth Discourse: A Framework for Discussing Hard Topics with Students | Cult of Pedagogy
If you've been avoiding certain topics in your classroom, this approach may give you a way to dig back in.
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James Marriott calls my critique
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GitHub - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...
We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.
The Testing Effect: Why Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Learning Tool
Commentary on The Testing Effect: Why Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Learning Tool by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
Smartphones At Age 12 Linked To Worse Health - Slashdot
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania finds that preteens who own smartphones by age 12 have significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, and poor sleep compared to their peers. Axios reports: Kids who owned a smartphone at age 12 were found to have about 31% higher odds of depressio...
Google's RCS Archival feature will let employers see your chats
New Pixel update means your RCS messages might be visible to your boss
Research Guides: The PALABRA Archive at the Library of Congress: Search by Author
This guide provides access to the PALABRA Archive, a collection of audio recordings of poets and writers from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and from other regions with Luso-Hispanic heritage reading from their works.
New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming | 4 Corners of the World
Various authors, languages, and cultures reflected in the latest release of PALABRA Archive recordings celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
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Chromium x64
Chromium x64, free download for Windows. Fast and efficient web browser with 64-bit architecture, built for speed, stability and security while browsing the Internet.
Download latest Chromium release (64-bit and 32-bit)
Download latest Chromium release for Windows, Mac and Linux (64-bit and 32-bit)
Pinokio Manual
Run your own personal Internet on Mac, Windows, and Linux with one click.
Home · Enafore
A fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.
Home · Semaphore
An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.
MastoDeck - advanced Mastodon client
The ultimate Mastodon client for power users. Real-time, fully customizable, built to match how you use Mastodon.
Home · Pinafore
An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.
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Statuzer
Multi-accounts, multi-columns Mastodon client/frontend
Local Timeline | Elk
webtoo.ls is a small server dedicated to Open Source tools in the Web ecosystem and their maintainers, collaborators, and close community members.
Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
Hour of AI 2025
Minecraft Education launches “Hour of AI: The First Night,” a free DLC and demo that lets players conquer the notorious first night with an AI agent they program themselves. The lesson is playable by anyone through Minecraft Education’s MakeCode environment. The module extends a decade of Hour of Code collaboration with Code.org and Microsoft, embedding puzzle-driven tasks that teach pattern recognition and resource classification. Players train their Agent and its mini-helpers to gather materials and automate shelter construction before sunset.
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
Never Run Out of Ideas: Lessons Learned from Writing 1000+ Blog Posts : Conferences That Work
“I may run out of ideas, but I’ll never run out of new combinations of ideas.” —Jerry Weinberg, “Weinberg on Writing – The Fieldstone Method“, Chapter 16, Putting Your Subconscious to Work
Jerry’s book uses frequent analogies to building fieldstone walls.
How not to run out of ideas: Stone Wall GIF by JC Property Professionals
Every stone-built wall is unique because you build it from a unique combination and arrangement of stones. Even using the same set of stones, you can build thousands of unique walls by stacking them differently.
The same is true of creating unique combinations of ideas.
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital…
5 Free Apps You Should Install As Soon As You Upgrade To Windows 11 - SlashGear
There’s no shortage of great apps for Windows 11, but we’ve narrowed our list to five standouts.
Winaero Tweaker
The ultimate all-in-one tweaker for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7.
Be careful responding to unexpected job interviews
Contacted out of the blue for a virtual interview? Be cautious. Attackers are using fake interviews to slip malware onto your device.
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