Author: Rafael Scapin

The question of whether or not something works is a basic one to ask when investing time and money in changing practice and in using new technologies. For learning analytics, the moral dimension adds a certain imperative, although there is …

Do you shop online? Follow the news on your iPad? Use Google to search for information? Of course you do. And you may well have noticed that these activities are becoming increasingly personalised experiences: ‘you recently bought X, you might …

A great collection of resources for teaching with the iPad.This will include resources from all of the best sources, from Apple’s own stuff to TeachThought to edutopia to MindShift to DMLCentral to Jackie Gerstein and more.

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/resources-for-teaching-with-ipads/

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The role of the institution and the changing nature of online learning.  The article addresses the specific question of assessment in open learning and in informal learning.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.ae/2014/09/beyond-assessment-recognizing.html

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Augmented Reality is exactly what the name implies: an augmented version of reality created by mixing technology with the known world. It might be a distorted, augmented, or less augmented version of the actual world but in its basic form, …

A great list of Education blogs by Teach100, a web service that ranks and scores hundreds of education blogs. It uses a complex set of algorithms to rank education blogs based on a number of data including social media popularity …

The inventor of the web says data must be owned by its subject, rather than corporations, advertisers, and analysts.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/sir-tim-berners-lee-speaks-out-on-data-ownership

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From citing a tweet to how to evaluate websites, these resources cover almost everything students need for developing their citation skills. Check them out below.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/04/excellent-guides-to-help-students-make.html

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Here are a few practical things you can do to help prevent cheating in your classroom.

http://teach4theheart.com/2014/10/13/8-ways-to-prevent-cheating/

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Using Google apps such as Google Forms and Google Sheets (spreadsheet similar to Microsoft Excel) is free and easy. These tools combine to provide and excellent way to receive feedback and even distribute self-graded quizzes.

http://teachamazing.com/create-surveys-and-graded-quizzes-with-google-drive/

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A new study conducted by high school students finds that some youngsters do equally well on tasks when moving between their laptops, smartphones and other devices, compared to less media-obsessed teens.

http://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/brain-health-news-80/today-s-teens-can-be-adept-multi-taskers-study-suggests-692470.html

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How we can harness the wealth of information to help meet the key challenges facing society in the 21st century, while addressing concerns about the privacy and security of personal data, and the legal and ethical issues this raises.

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1720…