tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326053344094419375.post4638745302969456471..comments2024-03-18T23:51:24.440-04:00Comments on The Electric Educator: RIP Google SpacesJohn R. Sowashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00830158152077843312noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326053344094419375.post-46037247711971969582017-03-26T09:40:38.305-04:002017-03-26T09:40:38.305-04:00Google Spaces was also an amazing Family social ne...Google Spaces was also an amazing Family social network that was not only based on "showing myself" or getting "Like" over and over but it was based upon thematic: family events, games, sciences, books, school, TV show and the list goes on. Many parents let their children dive into Facebook, instagram, Snapchat.. Studies (Sherry Turkle and many others) show that our children are losing empathy when they start using Facebook before 18 (and most of them are connected to Facebook at 8 or 9) Googles Spaces is easy to work with. Children and their friends, parents, grand parents and all family can share real things with each other. Most of the time around a Thematic. We can also share Photosfrom Google Photos, comments. Google Spaces was a good start to learn how to interact socially at a smaller scale instead of being overwhelmed on this huge human social network we've created to promote ourselves mostly. On Facebook the tremendous amount of information is inevitably swallowed by the black hole of everything that becomes nothing most of the time. Too many information is coming from everywhere, going in every direction. The brain can't "compute". Our children and teens think they can handle it. But they can't. We see the brain activity in MRI. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776201885580590854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326053344094419375.post-73710531947669525632017-02-27T10:09:20.796-05:002017-02-27T10:09:20.796-05:00Because it was likely to last longer. I use Google...Because it was likely to last longer. I use Google Classroom for teacher communications. I mark each class "TEACHERS."orangemathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05099727076265177042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326053344094419375.post-42527667676524195662017-02-25T12:14:43.508-05:002017-02-25T12:14:43.508-05:00Spaces was/is a superb product for unifying differ...Spaces was/is a superb product for unifying different teacher groups in a school or district, but it may have been too active - too many notifications. It was meant to compete with Slack and Yammer. Very sad to see it go, but it is hard to get a group established.orangemathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05099727076265177042noreply@blogger.com