Apple removed an app from opposition leader Alexei Navalny following threats from Russia's government. What you need to know Senator Marco Rubio has slammed Apple and Google for removing a Smart Voting app in Russia. Apple was forced to remove the app from Russia's opposition leader because of threats from the government. Rubio said Apple was "complicit in the censorship of an oppressive, authoritarian regime." Senator Marco Rubio has sent a strongly-worded letter to both Apple and Google lambasting both companies' decision to remove Alexei Navalny's Smart Voting app from their platforms ahead of Russia's recent election. The Washington Examiner reports that Rubio sent both companies a letter stating: By bowing to Moscow's demand, Google and Apple have made themselves...
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Are you trying to raise a bilingual family? Raising bilingual children (or even multilingual) is a serious undertaking. So it’s always helpful to have fun resources to help you in the process -- and that’s where this Studycat review comes in. Today, I’ll be reviewing Studycat and Studycat Club. Studycat is an app aimed at teaching children ages 3 - 8 to love learning languages. They currently offer the app in English, Spanish, German, Chinese, and French for home use or in the classroom. Table of contents What is Studycat? Language Learning for Kids Age 3 - 8 How Studycat Works Our Experience with Studycat Fun Spanish Studycat Fun Chinese Studycat Club Features Studycat Pros and Cons Pros: Cons: Let’s...
“What a story is ‘about’ is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring.” We move through a storied world as living stories. Every human life is an autogenerated tale of meaning — we string the chance-events of our lives into a sensical and coherent narrative of who and what we are, then make that narrative the psychological pillar of our identity. Every civilization is a macrocosm of the narrative — we string together our collective selective memory into what we call history, using storytelling as a survival mechanism for its injustices. Along the way, we hum a handful of impressions — a tiny fraction of all knowable truth, sieved by the...
TRICK OR TREAT CRANKENSTEINTrick or Treat, Crankenstein is the new Halloween book by Samantha Berger. It features our favorite cranky dude...Crankenstein! Crankenstein is upset (again!) It is his favorite holiday...Halloween...but nothing is going quite right! Poor Crankenstein wakes up with a toothache, can't quite get his Halloween costume right, and his pesky brother steals candy from his Halloween stash! This complete literacy unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities to work through the book with your Kindergarten or First Grade class. The pack includes this class book, where each student can contribute a page, sharing what would make them have a cranky Halloween. It will be a class favorite in your classroom library! The unit has prompts for making text-to-self connections, character analysis,...
