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Inattentive, unfocused minds in classrooms are nothing new. The mindset needs to shift from how well teachers teach to how well students learn to address this problem.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/education/story/20190819-from-passive-to-active-learning-1578655-2019-08-09

Teachers had a lot of questions about an Edutopia video featuring a blended learning model developed in a public high school, and the team behind that model has answers.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/answers-your-blended-learning-questions

Today’s children are all “digital natives” which is referred to “a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age”. In the current stage, educators are …

PowerPoint for Office 365 can transcribe your words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language you are speaking, or as subtitles translated to another language. This can help accommodate individuals in the audience who …

There are a few ways that you can extract the audio from a video. One of the easier ways to do that is found in GarageBand. In the following video I demonstrate how to extract the audio from a video …

Find out how the Gmail’s Schedule Send feature is used, and why you should add it to your routine.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-the-gmail-schedule-send/

These are free self-paced courses to help you develop and improve your Google search skills. You will get to learn ‘tips and tricks to become a fast and effective fact-finder with Power Searching with Google, deepen your understanding of solving …

Researchers found that parents and children interact more meaningfully when sharing a print book versus an electronic one.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-08-14-ebooks-are-great-just-not-for-young-readers

The latest addition to the panoply of translation devices is the pocket-size, AI-powered Langogo. The handy little device translates 70 languages from Arabic to Vietnamese with Bulgarian, Malay, and 20 Spanish dialects in between. Langogo is connected to what it …

When MOOCs first burst onto the scene in 2012 — the year the New York Times dubbed “the year of the MOOC” — their success was enabled largely by the convergence of four key technologies: cloud computing, video distribution at …

From the developer of the popular Flippity service comes a new tool designed for students. That tool is called QuickCite and it helps students properly format MLA 8 citations. Students can also use QuickCite for less formal citation needs like …

Cite websites, books, papers, articles, podcasts, songs, and much more using Citationsy. Perfect references and footnotes every time. Citationsy is perhaps the world’s best-referencing tool. This Chrome extension will let you cite any website with a single click. We support …

LiquidText is a great iPad app you can use to annotate your PDFs, gather and organize your information across all your documents and webpages. You can create your own workspace in LiquidText and start importing your documents from popular cloud …