Technology for Learning Blog

Dear Colleagues & Students

Something else I wish I knew many years ago…

For those of you using the calendar in Outlook, here’s a quick (30 second watch) way to share times you are free (rather than taking a screen shot):

Dear Colleagues and Students

I never knew you could do this with YouTube videos in Chrome…

1 min to watch now = many future minutes saved…

Dear Colleagues & Students

Some interesting experiments on this link (1min 30sec to watch)

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/digitalwellbeing

Dear Colleagues and Students

Screencastify is a really useful tool for creating and sharing your own screencasts (or gifs) with just a couple of clicks.

There have been some great updates recently.

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This article came into my inbox yesterday and I have shared it with a few colleagues already. I though its balanced approach to a contentious issue worth sharing with you. Rather than interpret the article myself, here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite, encouraging you to foster your own “reading resilience” and engage with the full article:

“Public anxiety about the capacity of digital-age children and young adults to read anything longer than a screen grab has come to feel like moral panic. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest we must take such unease seriously….”