Story-driven digital games can drive students to explore concepts like linear and nonlinear narrative, the unreliable narrator, and more.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/reading-digital-games-texts…
AI algorithm with ‘social skills’ teaches humans how to collaborate
An international team has developed an AI algorithm with social skills that has outperformed humans in the ability to cooperate with people and machines in playing a variety of two-player games.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-algorithm-teaches-humans-how-to-collaborate…
Three Higher Ed Design Trends for 2018
Designers are always looking ahead to new innovations in aesthetics and process. Whether that change is grounded in user needs, market opportunity, or pure curiosity, we’re always pushing forward. Rested from our winter holiday and motivated to make this year …
An education for the 21st century means teaching coding in schools
Being introduced to coding gives students an appreciation of what can be built with technology. We are surrounded by devices controlled by computers. Understanding how they work, and imagining new devices and services, are enhanced by understanding coding.
http://www.theedadvocate.org/an-education-for-the-21st-century-means-teaching-coding-in-schools-2/…
Today, Michio Kaku Described What Life Will Look Like in Twenty Years
From toilets that read our proteins to walls that talk to us, Kaku painted a staggeringly beautiful (and somewhat comical) picture of the world of tomorrow.
Checking For Plagiarism In Google Docs: Edit Where You Write
After recent integration with Google Classroom, Unicheck, a leading plagiarism checker has already announced a new add-on release for Google Docs. For the user this plagiarism checker add-on introduces the same core functionality, combined with several new convenience-level changes involving …
Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia
Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/teaching-assistant-robots-will-reinvent-academia…
Need to Go on a ‘Tech Diet’? Current Ways to Fight Your Device Addiction
Here are some other ways parents and educators can monitor and manage children’s screen time on mobile devices.
Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave
It’s official: Facebook is for old(er) people. Teens and young adults are ditching Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as popularity among the over-55s surges, according to a report.
How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism
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Presentation of the Week: Expanding (digital) access, openness and flexibility: Contradictions, complicity, costs and contestations
Why Mobile Technology Enhances Instruction
As mobile technology continues to steal the spotlight in K-12 classroom methodology, certain areas of study tend to be gravitating towards the trends more strongly. Last week an Education Market Research report found that 28 percent of class time for …
Flipped Classroom Research: From “Black Box” to “White Box” Evaluation
We propose and briefly discuss realist evaluation as a promising approach to evaluating educational interventions and for advancing our theoretical understanding of the flipped classroom. We argue that realist evaluation provides an analytical framework for posing the next generation of …
5 Google Drive Tips Everyone Should Know
Google Drive has become an indispensable tool in my digital toolbox. Today I have put together a list of five Google Drive tips to help teachers, students, or ANYONE make the most of Google Drive.
http://shakeuplearning.com/blog/5-google-drive-tips-everyone-should-know/…
Banning mobile phones in classrooms takes education back in time, experts say
Despite Government calls for smartphones to be banned in classrooms, some experts say doing so would take education back “a few years”.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-05/debate-on-mobile-phones-in-the-classroom/9397898
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