YouTube Tips and Tricks (September 2020)
A group of teachers interested in Google Educator Certification has started meeting periodically at our school in “Genius Bar Sessions” to dive into different Google products...
Tips for Discussing Conspiracy Theories with Students
Conspiracy theories are far more than an amusement today. The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a study finding that...
Reflections on AI, China-U.S. Relations, Education & Innovation
The rapid improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning algorithms and systems is one of the most important technological trends to study, discuss, and understand...
A Return to the Simple Pleasures of Daily Blogging
I miss blogging. Ironically, for the first time in YEARS, I actually have two of my six classes of students I’m teaching this semester blogging again...
Provide Family Tech Support FREE with Teamviewer
If you are the “go to geek” in your family when it comes to technology support, you should know about Teamviewer. While there are a number...
Ad Blocking Lessons Learned with Pi Hole, Google (Nest) WiFi and AppleTV
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a relatively inexpensive and straightforward way to block all the advertisements in YouTube and other apps on the AppleTV?...
Twitter Threads as Bear Traps
Living as we do amidst an overwhelming quantity of digital information, each one of us needs to develop better skills for filtering our feeds. We also...
Recording and Sharing Your iPad with In-Person and Remote Learning Students
Update 8/24/2020: I’ve created a step-by-step tutorial for these steps, using either Google Meet or Zoom. This is linked from our “Lesson Cast” support page on...
Media Literacy Conversations About Conspiracies and Culture Wars
The past two months I’ve been working on a media literacy project with fellow educator and colleague Brian Turnbaugh (@wegotwits) which we have titled, “Conspiracies and...
Podcast474: Brainstorming “Fact or Fiction? Apollo Moon Landings” Workshop and Lesson
Our conversations about media literacy, conspiracies, culture wars, and the Apollo Moon landings continue! The current generation of youth has been exposed to more conspiracy theories...
