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Fact vs Fiction

3/31/2016

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UPDATED 4/5/2016

Thanks to Brian Briggs for compiling ALL these April Fool's Google videos from this year. I had seen a few but did not know of all of these.
  • Gmail Mic Drop (they had to get rid of this because of problems it caused. Read about it here)
  • Search your photos using emoji
  • Google Cardboard Plastic
  • Apps in Space
  • YouTube SnoopaVision
  • realBooks
  • Style Detection for Google Cloud Vision API
  • Parachutes by Google Express
  • Self-driving bicycles
  • Google Search for your socks
  • Chrome Chromebook
  • Compressing everything

Original Post Below
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Google just loves April Fools Day. With this day coming up you can be sure to expect Google and other tech companies to "unveil" some pretty incredible tools. You should be cautious though - No tech company will release ANYTHING revolutionary on April 1st.  These pranks are often so well produced that they seem like could be real. For example... check out one of my favorites. Google Nose
I've compiled some of my favorite of these Google April Fool's Day pranks. They are fun to just watch but try playing a game with your students. Fact vs Fiction.

Start a class day off by saying "OK kids, watch this video and then decide if this is Fact or Fiction" Play a video and then poll them if they think it is real or not. Before you reveal the answer, ask what some of the clues they found to make their decision.  In order to make this challenging, you have to find some videos of real technologies to keep them honest. So, I put together a list of both of Fact and Fiction videos below.

FACT

Loon
Google Self Driving Cars  
Makey Makey Go
Vessyl
Phree
Bruno Trash can
Bios Incube ​

​Do you have any mind blowing technologies that we can add to this list? Please comment or share back if you have any. 


FICTION

Gmail Tap
Autocompleter
Fiber bar
Gmail motion
Google nose 

and check back after April 1st to see what Google did for 2016.
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Nice Article!

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