Today's GrokIt:
Welcome to another year of GrokIt!
GrokIt originally appeared 9 years ago. While teaching at RHS, I conceived it as the digital equivalent of the Do Now or activator you may be used to other teachers giving to you to start the class.
Interestingly enough, I believe the blog has taken up a much more important role in my classes.
I envision using GrokIt as a hi-tech portal to get you and your energies focused on the class topics of the day by hyperlinking around the net to:
•discover state-of the-art technologies
•bump into some engaging topic
•just enjoy a fun and interesting website.
My hope is to try to kindle a spark of interest in computers and technology.
After all, the World Wide Web and everything in it was created by software developers, computer programmers, web designers, all kinds of techie people of which you are the next generation.
I also want to create a class community, a public forum from which you could express your opinions and see the opinions of others about these topics.
So here's today's GrokIt.
One of my favorite sites is Wired. Check it out @
http://www.wired.com/
Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.
dmac
3 comments:
I picked the article "An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness" and I find it cool how one day that you could be able to use social media to help manage and predict mental illness.
I read the Mass Transit Is in Jeopardy and so Are The Cities I cant believe they are going to lay off 9,000 bus and train operators also that they need "12 billion for 2021- or everything will fall apart"
I read the Mass Transit Is in Jeopardy. I was suprised on the fact that " NYU’s Rudin Center of Transportation suggests that the MTA’s proposed cuts could lead to the loss of as many as 450,000 jobs and $50 billion in earnings in the region, tanking the area’s GDP by $65 billion".
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