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Caution Chromebooks Gary S Stager Phd Medium

Providing students with a Chromebook rather than a proper laptop computer is akin to replacing your school orchestra instruments with kazoos. Lots of good points in this article. I think my favorite is the fact that if cost is the issue, then the Raspberry Pi is really what schools should be buying their students. I think it drives home the fact that it has nothing to do with cost and everything to do with the schools’ inability to manage and take care of these machines.
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Hidden Costs Of Climate Change Running Hundreds Of Billions A

And yet this does not include this past months’ three major hurricanes or 76 wildfires in nine Western states. Those economic losses alone are estimated to top $300 billion, the report notes. Putting it in perspective, $300 billion is enough money to provide free tuition for the 13.5 million U.S. students enrolled in public colleges and universities for four years. When climate change starts effecting the bottom line, will that make some of these holdout corporations sit up and take notice?
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How To Zoom An Apple Map With One Finger

I love this tip. Here’s how to do it: Bring up Apple Maps. Double-tap in the map, but on the second tap, don’t lift your finger. So tap-lift-tap-leave. Now slide up or down to zoom in and out. This is really handy. source
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