Here are some of the tools our content team leverages to make that process efficient. While some of this may be overkill for you or your team, there may be some value in seeing how content gets created from …
Google Forms: Create a Formative Assessment Quiz
An excellent tool for formative assessment is Google Forms. Good formative assessment allows you to be quickly responsive to student needs. Google Forms gives you the data from students instantly after they press submit. Since all student answers are …
Belgium takes Facebook to court over privacy breaches and user tracking
Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for ads.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/belgium-facebook-court-privacy-breaches-ads…
A Teacher’s Guide to Using PowerPoint
PowerPoint presentations provide the opportunity to combine many of those tools into one place. In one lesson, you can easily incorporate speech, text, images, videos, and audio. You want your presentations to be engaging for your students. PowerPoint provides …
Great list of resources: data science, visualization, machine learning, big data
Fantastic resource created by Andrea Motosi. I’ve only included the 5 categories that are the most relevant to our audience, though it has 31 categories total, including a few on distributed systems and Hadoop.
How to visualize your Facebook network
Facebook knows the social network of more than a billion persons. If you are a Facebook user though, you have little tools to explore your own social network. We are going to see how, with a few scraping tools, …
Tech-savvy cheats beware: Universities are banning smartwatches
As technology has gotten smarter and a lot smaller, educators have raised concerns that gadgets — from blue tooth earpieces to Google Glass — could be used to cut corners during important tests.
http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/universities-banning-smart-watches/…
10 Easy and Innovative Ways to Use PDF Files
Here are 10 ways in which you can extend the uses of PDFs, in order not only to increase your productivity but also extend your knowledge of such a useful document format.
http://socialbarrel.com/10-easy-and-innovative-ways-to-use-pdf-files/98741/…
The Internet of Education Things (part 1)
If we distil the Internet of Things down to its essential purpose, it is the use of technology to permit us as human beings to yield or surrender some aspects of our attention, the need for our attentiveness, to …
Do we see reality as it is?
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Presentation of the Week: MOOCs and pedagogy: where are we heading?
Google Launches ‘Expeditions,’ An App For Shared Virtual School Field Trips
The app is aimed at giving students the ability to travel to places they otherwise might not had the opportunity to reach.
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Why Technology Alone Won’t Fix Schools
Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces, so in education, technologies amplify whatever pedagogical capacity is already there.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/why-technology-alone-wont-fix-schools/394727/…
Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun: How Nanodegrees can democratize tech education
Nanodegrees aren’t much different than college; the end result of the education is pointing you toward a career. In the case of many Udacity students, it’s a second or third career.
Do MOOCs Work Best For Educated People?
If there is any overall pattern so far it is that students who are beginning students, more remedial students, they’re going to have problems.
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/16/taking-stock-do-moocs-only-work-for-educated-people/…