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A spreadsheet can be impressive but, with a closer look, meaningless

Why people love spreadsheets?

A colleague once told me "Paper is the greatest invention of humankind, because it accepts anything you put on it" I believe digital spreadsheets, then, are an even greater invention, because they not only accept anything you put on them, but they also allow you to easily adjust huge amounts of data to conclude whatever [...]

Ti-ti-ti… Gossip as a teaching tool

I wrote this article in 2010 in Portuguese when I was involved in distance learning, and from time to time, I revisit it because… it is great. Today, I’ve decided to summarize it in a post in English. As teachers find themselves in a constant battle for their students’ attention In a world overloaded with […]