Author: Rafael Scapin

The best protection consists of setting up and maintaining layers of security on your devices: keeping your operating system, browsers, and software updated, paying for decent but not overbearing virus and malware protection, installing browser extensions for Web privacy and …

Classroom “clickers” quiz students in real time, allowing instructors to gauge student learning and reinforce what is being taught. New research suggests that the effectiveness of these devices hinges largely on the teaching methods being used with them, not the …

Google just announced that it will sunset the company’s social networking service Google+ for consumers in the coming 10 month period. Google+ was Google’s last attempt at creating a Facebook competitor that would put Google on equal footing with the …

There are times when a good video or video clip can be just the thing that a student needs to see how all of the pieces of a topic come together. And sometimes just seeing a demonstration or hearing an …

The Top Tools for Learning 2018 list was compiled by Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Below you will find an interactive table of the Top 200 Tools for Learning 2018. This table also shows their …

Reading and responding to students’ emotions could help boost engagement levels and academic performance.

https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2016/02/how-affective-data-could-change-learning-outcomes…

There are some significant new trends in this year’s list. Could this be the tipping point for some real change in how (workplace) learning is perceived and supported?

http://modernworkplacelearning.com/magazine/10-trends-for-digital-learning-in-2018/…

The apps include thesauruses, dictionaries, and translation.  Students can use these apps to search for meanings of new lexical items, translate across multiple languages,  access tons of contextualized examples of language use and many more.

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/10/8-great-translation-and-dictionary-apps.html…

I have been producing video tutorials for several years, for all the courses I teach. Over time, I have used different software (JingPro, Camtasia, Screencast-O-Matic, etc.). I found that this software is very complete, even in its free version, and …

These are web-based citation generators you can use to easily generate and  format your references based on various citation styles. They support several citation formats (e.g., APA, MLA7/8, Chicago and many more) as well as a multitude of sources that …

Take a look at the diagram below that compares the Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning (PPL100) with the Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (WPL100) in terms of the frequency of learning.

http://modernworkplacelearning.com/magazine/what-does-the-top-tools-for-learning-2018-list-tell-us-about-the-future-direction-of-ld/…

The best way to think about persuasive technology is to start with the iconic furniture store Ikea.  

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-10-02-what-does-edtech-and-ikea-have-in-common-persuasive-design…

The “Ed-Tech Top 40” analysis is based on real-time online activity from over 300 schools and districts during the school year. It was generated from more than 2 billion data points using a plug-in on Google’s Chrome browser that identifies …