I have met an oracle and now you can too.

A few years ago I was able to hear an oracle speak, and it was amazing. He talked chatbots, which are now everywhere, to CRISPR and how we will be able to edit our own DNA. It was fascinating.

While he painted a big picture of the world, he brought it down to us, how this new world impacts educators.

At one point he mentions how a cancer researcher, Kevin Jones, stays sharp by holding on to two super important values, humility, and curiosity. These two values really made me think, mostly because what he said about research didn't make sense to me.

Leave the science out of it for a second, could we teach the kids these two values which empowers the researcher to do great work? Absolutely. That was the whole purpose of this talk, see the future and empower those around you to do great things.

The whole time Tom Vander Ark spoke he talked about these big ideas while making them approachable to even our youngest learners.

If you have a few minutes on May 28th, 2-4PM, join this event. Sign up is free and I promise you will not regret it. You can see this oracle from the future speak.

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Like your ELMO but with an iPad (elementary classroom teachers)

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Who is emailing me? The Blue Man Group??? (Add an image to your Google account.)

WHY It is always nice to put a face with a name. Sometimes we need a tiny little reminder of what someone looks like because we don't see them very often. Follow these steps to add/change the image associated with your Google account. HOW Open your email. Click your image. It might just be a blue circle if you have not added something already. Click Change . Find an image you like. Your amazing new image will appear. From now on everyone can put a name to a face!

Annotate PDF? How might I do that?

So I have a PDF and I need to edit it. Here is one method that works pretty well for me. Open Word. Click File . 1. Click Open . 2. Click Browse . 3. Find the PDF you want to annotate. 4. Click Open . Click OK when you see this box. Bam! Your PDF now opens in Word. Note: you maybe have to click Enable Editing at the top of the screen. Finished editing and want to turn it back into a PDF? Click File . 1. Click Save As . 2. Click This PC . 3. Pick a location. I usually save things to my desktop. 4. Click Save as type - and choose PDF. 5. Click Save .

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