A disruptive innovation: an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances.
You’re Doing it Wrong! How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts
A lot of Google users have more than one Google account, often a school account and a personal account. If you are like me, you have like fifteen accounts. Logging in and out can be an absolute pain! But …
Teachers Say Technology Is The Most Important Investment For Schools
Teachers want more technology in their classrooms — and fast. A new study from DonorsChoose.com, a nonprofit organization that lets teachers request items for their classes so donors can fulfill their requests, found that teachers rank technology as the …
10 Great Web Tools for Creating Digital Quizzes
Below is a collection of some of the most popular quizzing tools we have covered so far. Be it a flipped, blended, virtual or even traditional classroom, the tools below will enable you to easily create interactive quizzes, questionnaires …
Presentation of the Week: Technology to Enhance Assessment of Student Learning
What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?
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What 7 Factors Should Educators Consider When Choosing Digital Tools for Underserved Students?
In the report we summarized research findings about the conditions and practices that support positive outcomes of technology use and digital learning experiences for underserved, under-resourced, and underprepared students.
15 Tech Tool Favorites From ISTE 2016
Monica Martinez creates professional development for the EdTechTeam, a partner of Google For Education. She has tried and vetted many of the apps available to teachers on many different platforms and has compiled an in-depth list of resources that …
Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI
After losing on mobile, can microsoft win the next battle? Microsoft is proud of its work on AI, and eager to convey the sense that this time around, it’s poised to win.
3 Great Grading Add-ons for Google Docs
Below are three Google Docs add-ons that you can use to grade students assignments and provide written feedback to them. The apps will absolutely facilitate your grading and save you some precious time to spend on other instructional tasks. …
10 Steps to a Blended Learning Classroom Using Office 365
Take these ten steps (five in this blog entry, five more in the sequel) to ensure you are successful in supporting blended learning opportunities by using Office 365.
http://www.mguhlin.org/2016/07/10-steps-to-blended-learning-classroom.html…
32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking
Do you know someone whose arguments consist of baldly specious reasoning, hopelessly confused categories, archipelagos of logical fallacies buttressed by seawalls of cognitive biases? Surely you do. Perhaps such a person would welcome some instruction on the properties of critical …
Could AI replace teachers? 10 ways it could
Teachers are not ends-in-themselves, they are always a means to an end – improvements in the learner. Given this premise, could it be possible to eventually replace teachers with AI technology? This may not happen soon but let’s, as …
10 Interesting Ways to Integrate QR Codes in Your Teaching (Infographic)
With the advance of mobile technologies, QR Code technologies open up a vast terrain for educational uses. There are several ways teachers can leverage the educational potential of QR Codes in their instruction. The visual below sums up 10 …
Sugata Mitra – the professor with his head in the cloud
He does amazing things with children and computers, and is said to have inspired Slumdog Millionaire. So why isn’t the educationist a household name?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/07/sugata-mitra-professor-school-in-cloud…