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Integrating Online Curation and Social Annotation into Courses
Online Curation is recognized as a necessary life-long skill for managing information overload. It involves purposefully collecting online content on a given topic, selecting and organizing the most relevant or interesting information, summarizing its significance for the collection, and sharing …
Is this the right way to use machine learning in education?
Graham Attwell points to ‘Predicting Employment through Machine Learning‘ by Linsey S. Hugo and comments that it “confirms some of my worries about the use of machine learning in education.” The idea is that student records could be used to …
StayFocusd: a productivity extension for Google Chrome
This extension helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of …
Robotics and coding now an option in the Saskatchewan curriculum
Across Saskatchewan, students from Grades 7 to 12 may now see robotics and coding become part of their practical and applied arts classes, due to the province’s launch of a new course curriculum.
…List of free and amazing online courses from top universities
Open Culture and Class Central compiled a list of thousands of enticing free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and lectures from top-shelf educators at great universities like MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/list-of-free-and-amazing-onlin.html
…Researchers use AI to track students’ performance in online courses
What insights might be gleaned from an education platform that’s entirely online? Plenty. In a newly published paper on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a trio of scientists at the University of Copenhagen investigated an AI model that ingested data from …
Draw.io is a free Flowchart and diagram creation software for Windows, Linux, macOS and your browser
Flowcharts are incredibly useful diagrams to explain process flows. But how do you make them using a computer? Microsoft Office or Libre Office can be used to create flowcharts. But an application like Draw.io that specializes in drawing diagrams can …
Meet the edtech startup that wants to make learning fun by rewarding students who study
Started by Persainjit Singh, Prakash Gupta, and Swati Gupta in 2017, Gurugram-based Extraclass is a social online learning platform that curates content for students, parents, and teachers.
https://yourstory.com/2019/09/edtech-startup-extraclass-gurugram-online-platform-rewards
…A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created
The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-successful-artificial-memory-has-been-created
…How Gamification Through Mobile Apps Can Improve Student Engagement
Gamification can help enrich educational experiences in a way that students will recognize and respond to,” said Elizabeth Lawley, a professor of interactive games and media at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
…Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists
Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter
If you don’t have time to sit and read a physical book, is listening to the audio version considered cheating? To some hardcore book nerds, it could be. But new evidence suggests that, to our brains, reading and hearing a …
Ditch Google with these privacy-first alternatives
Google is the web’s most dominant services company – it’s also one of the world’s biggest advertisers. If you’re trying to protect your data, these are the best alternatives.
…Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The future of education is technological. Necessarily so. Or that’s what the proponents of ed-tech would want you to believe. In order to prepare students for the future, the practices of teaching and learning – indeed the whole notion of …