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3 Tips For Teaching With Robots
Robots are a great teaching tool but sometimes they need a human touch, says Sandi Castro, the Career and Technical Education Coordinator Del Valle ISD in Texas. [more…]
The Power of Humility: Why Egoless Leadership Helps Schools Thrive
You know the leader who is the loudest, most brash, and polarizing personality. They have a chip on their shoulder, and a take-no-prisoners approach, demanding compliance. Yet [more…]
Best Free Veterans Day Lessons & Activities
The best Veterans Day lessons and activities can provide the perfect way to engage your students in a variety of topics ranging from STEM to history and [more…]
Who Owns Melbet?
Melbet is an international bookmaker that was founded in 2012. It belongs to Alenesro Limited, which operates under Pelican Entertainment Limited. It has its headquarters located in [more…]
I Used To Create Long Slideshows. Here’s 4 Things I Do Instead
For a while now my LinkedIn bio has began, “I’m an educator, journalist, author, and recovering PowerPoint user.” It’s true. A few years ago, I vowed never [more…]
Help me write: Google Doc’s New AI Writing Tool Explained for Teachers
Help me write is a new AI writing tool that Google recently began rolling out for select users. It is fully integrated into Google Docs, and is [more…]
My Student Was Submitting AI Papers. Here’s What I Did
Over the summer it finally happened to me: While reading a student essay in an introductory online college course at one of the universities at which I [more…]
Best Cryptocurrencies to Mine with a PC in 2024
The days of mining bitcoin with a PC are over. As the difficulty of bitcoin mining has increased, using your computer has been made redundant in the [more…]
Automatically redact PII for machine learning using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Customers increasingly want to use deep learning approaches such as large language models (LLMs) to automate the extraction of data and insights. For many industries, data that [more…]
A Buzzing, Flashing Phone Ringer For the Elderly
For a lonely person, elderly or otherwise, the sound of a ringing phone can be music to the ears, unless of course it’s another spam call. But [more…]
2023 Halloween Hackfest: Treat Trough of Terror Is Actually Pretty Cute
Even though it seems the worst of COVID has passed, October generally kicks off cold and flu season, so why not continue to pass out Halloween treats [more…]
AI Lesson Plan Tips
AI (artificial intelligence) is becoming a mainstay in discussions around technology use in the classroom. We are already ubiquitously surrounded by AI in our everyday lives, with [more…]
Monitor Apache Spark applications on Amazon EMR with Amazon Cloudwatch
To improve a Spark application’s efficiency, it’s essential to monitor its performance and behavior. In this post, we demonstrate how to publish detailed Spark metrics from Amazon [more…]
How to teach your students to use Flocabulary
Flocabulary is an amazing tool for building community during back to school season, allowing educators to present engaging hip-hop videos to teach academic vocabulary. But don’t hog [more…]
How to Invest in Coinbase’s Base Project and COIN Stock
Executive Summary Base is an Ethereum Layer-2 project owned by Coinbase. Like other L2s, the goal is to improve Ethereum’s speed and scalability. Importantly, other developers can [more…]
Automate secure access to Amazon MWAA environments using existing OpenID Connect single-sign-on authentication and authorization
Customers use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) to run Apache Airflow at scale in the cloud. They want to use their existing login solutions [more…]
Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them
Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, [more…]
Smart Sphere or Magnetic Magic
Sometimes a coworker sees something on your desk, and they have to ask, “Where can I get one of those?” and that has to be one of [more…]
How To Model a Twisted Part in FreeCAD
Quick references are handy, but sometimes it’s nice to have a process demonstrated from beginning to end. In that spirit, [Darren Stone] created a video demonstrating how [more…]
How to Withdraw Money from Bet9ja
Being able to withdraw your winnings successfully is one of the most important features of any online betting platform. Fortunately, Bet9ja makes it easy to withdraw cash [more…]
Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework
In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA [more…]
