Thinking About The R in SAMR
A Must See Chart on SAMR Model and iPad Teaching
Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.
An Easy Way to Insert Files from Your Google Drive into Your Gmail Messages
Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.
Google Classroom: Early videos of their closest attempt at an LMS
ListenFor years the ed tech community has speculated about Google entering the LMS market, including Wave (discontinued, but some key features embedded in other tools), Apps for Education, and even incorrectly with Pearson OpenClass. Each time there is some possibilities, but Google has not shown interest in fully replacing LMS functionality. Google Classroom, announced in […]
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WHY ZOG HATES PRIVACY AND HATES ENCRYPTION
Looks Like the NSA May Lose Its Standing Invitation to Weaken Encryption
There has been plenty of bad news when it comes to NSA spying, so it’s encouraging when the news is good. At the end of May, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology signaled the beginning of the end for NSA’s effort to undermine encryption, passing an amendment that extricates the NSA...
Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillanc
Defending press freedom for the next generation
What Are You Doing with the Technology You've Got?
This binder contains resources for educators who want to learn more about making best use of existing technology.
Obama administration advising cops to not disclose surveillance technology
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire …
Evernote and Feedly Hacked, Attackers Hold Sites for Ransom
TweetDeck Vulnerability Opens User Accounts To Hackers
A "cross-site scripting" vulnerability apparently left the social media service interface open to attacks.
Circumvent Wi-Fi Time Limits at Coffee Shops by Spoofing Your MAC Address
It's great that coffee shops offer free Wi-Fi to customers, but many are starting to employ time limits to limit how long you spend in their establish
Feds swoop in, snatch mobile phone tracking records away from ACLU
Email Self-Defense - a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
Email surveillance violates our fundamental
rights and makes free speech risky. This guide will teach you email
self-defense in 40 minutes with GnuPG.
Your Android phone, now with NSA-grade security
You now get NSA-grade encryption on your Android device in less than one minute.
'Squalid And Rancid' Government Spying Must Be Stopped, Says Stephen Fry
'Squalid And Rancid' Government Spying Must Be Stopped, Says Stephen Fry
7 Ways to Break Destructive Patterns - Leadership Freak
Lousy leaders solve the same problems over and over.
Why I'm sending 200 copies of Little Brother to a high-school in Pensacola,
The principal of Booker T Washington High in Pensacola FL cancelled the school's One School/One Book summer reading program rather than letting all the kids go through with the previously approved assignment to read Little Brother, the bestselling young adult novel by Cory Doctorow. With Cory and Tor Books' help, the teachers are fighting back.
Animal Farm: Watch the Animated Adaptation of Orwell’s Novel Funded by the
Built Not Bought #spurs #leadership #nbafinals
Now, before you Miami Heat folks freak out about the Spurs trouncing the Miami professional basketball team last night, or before the Spurs fans freak out that this post isn’t about them, I&#…
Guardian launches SecureDrop system for whistleblowers to share files
SecureDrop platform allows sources to submit documents and data while avoiding most common forms of online tracking
Research Reveals Why People Avoid Taking Positive Action
OpenSSL Flaw Discovered: Patch Now
In the wake of the Heartbleed flaw, a researcher finds new weaknesses in OpenSSL that could be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle attacks,
YesAllWomen and Ed-Tech Conferences, or Why ISTE is Unsafe
Update 6/11/2014: ISTE has added a Code of Conduct to the website for its 2014 conference#YesAllWomen in ed-techEarlier this week, Ariel Norling published an incredibly brave article — an inc...
The Five Dumbest Ways That People Defend NSA Spying
Over the past year, as the Snowden revelations have rolled out, the government and its apologists have developed a set of talking points about mass spying
A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material
Zombie Pedagogies: Embodied Learning in the Digital Age
The document explores the concept of 'zombie pedagogies' within the context of digital learning, emphasizing the intersection of physical and virtual spaces in education. It critiques the disembodiment of teaching and learning facilitated by technology, arguing for a more engaged and hybrid approach to pedagogy. The author, Jesse Stommel, invites educators to confront the complexities of technology and to recognize the ongoing relationships and decay inherent in both human and educational bodies.
Guest Post: Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?
This is Secretary of State John Kerry’s answer, given May 28 on CBS This Morning: “He should man up, come back to the United States. If he has a complaint about what’s wrong with American surveillance, come back here and stand in our system of justice and make his case. But instead, he’s just sitting […]
Leadership is Not What You Think it is
Leadership is not celebrating victory at the end of the battle. …it’s the sleepless nights mourning the lives your decisions cost. It’s not standing on stage in front of thousands of people. …it’s knowing others talk about you behind your back, to achieve their own objectives. It’s not having your name in the history books. …it’s the […]