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📑 What I learned at work this year | Bill Gates
👓 2018, Month by Month | Ire Aderinokun – Medium
2018 has been a year of many challenges for me, both professionally and personally. Although it has been hard, I have probably grown more…
👓 The end of 2018 | Oh Hello Ana
This may be the first time that I am writing a year review before the year actually ends so it is a good sign. Also, It’s really hard to create blog post titles so I decided to go dramatic. I had a couple of goals for this year. I wanted to work on my wellbeing, do a talk at a meet up, go to the g...
🔖 Learning Gutenberg: Series Introduction | CSS-Tricks
Hey CSS-Tricksters! 👋 We have a special long-form series we’re kicking off here totally dedicated to Gutenberg, a major change to the WordPress
👓 2018: A year in review | Andy Bell
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It’s safe to say that 2018 has been a jam-packed year for me, both personally and professionally. I’m going to reflect on this year in this post and also look forward to 2019. Let’s dive in!
👓 My 2018 | Remy Sharp
With the 12 year of this blog's existence, I present to future me: stuff that happened in 2018 that 2019 version of me has already forgotten. And yes, content warning: this will be me, me, me!
👓 2018 in numbers | Adactio: Journal | Jeremy Keith
I posted to adactio.com 1,387 times in 2018
👓 AI Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat | WIRED
Teachers are being forced to adapt to new tools that execute homework perfectly.
There is some interesting discussion in here on how digital technology meets pedagogy. We definitely need to think about how we reframe what is happening here. I’m a bit surprised they didn’t look back at the history of the acceptance (or not) of the calculator in math classes from the 60’s onward.
Where it comes to math, some of these tools can be quite useful, but students need to have the correct and incorrect uses of these technologies explained and modeled for them. Rote cheating certainly isn’t going to help them, but if used as a general tutorial of how and why methods work, then it can be invaluable and allow them to jump much further ahead of where they might otherwise be.
I’m reminded of having told many in the past that the general concepts behind the subject of calculus are actually quite simple and relatively easy to master. The typical issue is that students in these classes may be able to do the first step of the problem which is the actual calculus, but get hung up on not having practiced the algebra enough and the 10 steps of algebra after the first step of calculus is where their stumbling block lies in getting the correct answer.
👓 These 1923 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2019 | LifeHacker
For the first time in twenty years, as the Atlantic points out, a whole year’s worth of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2019. Under the terms of the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, works first published in 1923 will enter the public domain, meaning anyone can re-publish them, or chop them up and use them in other projects, without asking permission or paying the old rights holders. You can record new versions of the musical compositions; you can show the movies for a profit; you can even remake them. Amazon can sell you the ebook and keep all the money, and Project Gutenberg can give you the ebook for free. The Atlantic has a short list; we have a longer one below.
👓 A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain | The Atlantic
For the first time in two decades, a huge number of books, films, and other works will escape U.S. copyright law.
👓 #MeToo law restricts use of nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases | LA Times
Among victims and advocates, an important step in dismantling the pervasive problem of harassment and the system that has kept it under wraps for so long is to void or curb the use of NDAs to settle sexual abuse cases.
🔖 Public Domain Day 2019 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!
👓 James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race | New York Times
The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds.
👓 Opinion | In Search of Lost Screen Time | New York Times
Imagine what we could do with our money, and hours, if we set our phones aside for a year.