Author: Rafael Scapin

Constructionism, long before it had a name, was intimately tied to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Student and teacher project‐oriented resources highlighting these new AI programming components appeared at the same time. In this paper, we review this history, providing …

Language learning isn’t as daunting as you might think. And technology makes the process even easier. Here are some ways how!

https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-learn-new-language-with-technology/

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Workspace is now open to everyone including those with a Google free account, according to an announcement made by Google and covered by Tech Crunch. The strength of Workspace is that it provides an integrated platform where you can easily …

Hybrid teaching and learning — some combination of in-person and virtual instruction — is here to stay, according to a survey of parents and teachers conducted for the educational technology company Instructure.

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/6/21/22538899/hybrid-learning-here-to-stay-teachers-make-the-difference-instructure-survey

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The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to knowledge dissemination and to obscure other, equally important, forms of education that help students be better citizens, thinkers, writers and collaborators. These other forms of education are the …

Cohort-based courses are still a nascent category. As in any popular trend, we’ll likely see prominent failures, too — but as the types of courses offered evolve, the definition of cohort-based courses will evolve, as well.

https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/

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Everything you upload to the internet has metadata attached to it. This is everything related to a file that’s not the content itself—format, what program it came from, its creation date, and sometimes even the name of its author. If …

Despite the visibility and energy surrounding artificial intelligence, higher education is taking measured steps toward incorporating this technology.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/6/educause-quickpoll-results-artificial-intelligence-use-in-higher-education

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A recent article in The New Yorker asks, “Is Online Test-Monitoring Here to Stay?”. Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes, especially since the broader student surveillance industry is rapidly expanding.

https://www.assortedstuff.com/the-growing-business-of-student-surveillance/

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Wick Editor is a free tool for creating animations in your web browser. Wick Editor doesn’t require you to register or sign into any kind of account in order to use it.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/06/wick-editor-nice-tool-for-creating.html

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As Google’s reinforcement learning–powered chip designer shows, innovations in AI hardware and software will continue to require abstract thinking, finding the right problems to solve, developing intuitions about the solutions, and choosing the right kind of data to validate the …

Long before the advent of personal computers, inventors and researchers created what they called “teaching machines” in hopes of revolutionizing education. Some of these creations date back to the 1920s, and were made from wood and brass.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-06-15-new-book-explores-the-long-and-surprising-history-of-teaching-machines

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There’s no doubt that the past year has accelerated our love of digital and how we access and consume content. Canadians continue to turn to digital video as a way to inform, entertain and learn new skills, discovering new content …

Podcasts radically shift the dynamics around who gets to teach, and who gets to learn. Yes, it’s true that they can’t replace a world-class, IRL, teacher-to-student relationship, but they *can* teach us more than a few vital lessons. Here are …

A photo can bring back fond memories, but a video can help transport you back to the tropical destination you vacationed at years ago. So researchers at the University of Washington have developed a deep learning method that can turn …