You can download YouTube video or any image, audio, video, software directly to your Google Drive. To do this you’d require a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive. This extension, developed by Google, allows users to save anything …
The Internet Of Things 2017 Report: How The Iot Is Improving Lives To Transform The World
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world. Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years — and the proliferation …
NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition
The NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 14th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to …
10 Tools For Student Voice
My story of using tools for student voice begins with listening to my students. I try to provide them with as much input as to how they will be educated as possible, and it’s no different when it comes …
Presentation of the Week: An enhanced learning analytics plugin for Moodle: Student engagement and personalised intervention
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How will education change in the next 10 years?
This is a question thread on Quora which has just been answered by Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Khan predicts the rise of mastery-based learning, competency-based credentials, and alternative and clearer career paths.
https://www.quora.com/How-will-education-change-in-the-next-10-years…
The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning
Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology.
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/01/25/the-growing-role-of-technology-in-personalized-learning/…
Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta
The current CC search tool is accessed by nearly 600,000 people every month — but we can do better. There is no “front door” to the commons, and the tools people need to curate, share, and remix works aren’t …
Experiential Learning and Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Duo
Experiential learning is a means of moving from theory to application which allows for a fair amount of student discovery and serendipity to take place. Digital storytelling is a way for students to record, report or even be evaluated …
5 Ways to Create Virtual Learning Experiences in Your Classroom
One of the biggest problems with edtech is the price tag – it can be incredibly cost prohibitive. However, that does not mean that you and your students have to be relegated to using only the old learning methods. …
Dawson College student designs ‘BreakBuddy’ app to make most of free time
A student at Dawson College has created the “BreakBuddy” app, which tracks class schedules so friends can meet up in between classes.
A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them
Larsen’s project LibreText is a sprawling, Wikipedia-like enterprise. Some of its content comes from existing open resources, and the rest is created by students, professors and outside experts from scratch.
Tutorials to Help You Get Started Creating Apps in Your Classroom
The MIT App Inventor is a fantastic tool for any teacher who would like to have his or her students try their hands at creating a working Android app.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/02/tutorials-to-help-you-get-started.html…
Udacity open sources its self-driving car simulator for anyone to use
The online education company is also making available its self-driving car simulator via open source license, allowing anyone with a working knowledge of Unity to gab the assets, load its preexisting scenes and create their own tracks for virtual …