Tag: Google Drive
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Automatically organising and summarising your notes
To use Tailwind — which is available through Labs, Google’s refreshed hub for experimental products — users pick files from Google Drive. Tailwind then creates a private AI model with expertise in that information, along with a personalized interface designed to help sift through the notes and docs. Wiggers, K. (2023, May 10). With Project…
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Writing about the software that I use to write
Note: I started writing this post more than a year ago and have regularly pushed it back in the queue. It began as a list of text editing software that I thought might be useful for people who are stuck using MS Word but has since grown beyond a simple list. I like to think…
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T&L seminar with UCT Law Faculty
Earlier this year I was invited by Alan Rycroft at the UCT Law Faculty to give a presentation at a seminar on T&L. The seminar took place yesterday and I presented some research that I did in 2012 where we used Google Drive as an implementation platform for authentic learning. I’ve written about authentic learning before,…
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Understanding vs knowing
Final exams vs. projects – nope, false dichotomy: a practical start to the blog year (by Grant Wiggins) Students who know can: Recall facts Repeat what they’ve been told Perform skills as practiced Plug in missing information Recognize or identify something that they’ve been shown before Whereas students who understand can: Justify a claim Connect…
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Using Google Translate for international projects
In preparation for the FAIMER residential session in Brazil, the coordinators spent months sharing documentation and ideas, and discussing every detail that goes into planning something like this…and they’ve been doing it in Portuguese. Initially I thought that this would mean I’d have no idea what was going on until I got there, but then…