This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/movies/the-social-dilemma-review.html…
4 Important Skills for Distance Education
In today’s post we are sharing with you what we believe are four of the basic distance learning skills you as a teacher (and student) should master in order to optimize your remote teaching experience.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/09/4-important-skills-for-distance.html…
Online classes: 5 reasons students could benefit from ‘cameras off’
As a researcher who studies behavior and the brain, I have found the evidence suggests that online instruction can pose a range of challenges for students if they are required to keep their cameras on during class. Here are five …
Whiteboard Chat – Online Whiteboards You Can Share and Monitor
Whiteboard Chat is a free service that you can use to create collaborative whiteboards to use with your students. It is possible to use Whiteboard Chat without an email address which makes it quick and easy to get started.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/whiteboard-chat-online-whiteboards-you.html…
Opinion: What teaching CEGEP online has taught me
I thought I’d miss everything I love most about my work, but what happened was not what I’d expected.
Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It’s really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim’s class “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical …
Microsoft builds deepfakes detection tool to combat election disinformation
Microsoft has developed a deepfakes detection tool to help news publishers and political campaigns, as well as technology to help content creators “mark” their images and videos in a way that will show if the content has been manipulated post-creation.…
Video Puppet is Now Narakeet – Still Turns Slides Into Narrated Videos
Narakeet is a service called Video Puppet that turns PowerPoint presentations into narrated videos. The new features include greater control over the voice-over. You can now have multiple voice-over voices in your video and you can now control pauses in …
Creating a sense of presence in synchronous online courses
In an online course, many students may experience a sense of anonymity. How do you encourage them to participate, to interact?
Canadian and International Experts Weigh In: An Annotated List of AI-Related Resources for College and University Students with and Without Disabilities
On May 1, 2020 the Adaptech Research Network held two Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meetings via Zoom. Participants from Canada, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA shared AI-related apps and devices as well as projects and articles. The …
A Handy Tool to Help You Create Educational Apps to Use in Your Instruction
AppSheet is a platform that allows you to easily create various types of mobile apps without the need for any coding knowledge. As a teacher, you can use this service to design apps to help you enhance your teaching and …
Online Learning Student Experience is the New Climbing Wall
What will distinguish an online MIT education from OpenCourseWare or an MIT MOOC micro-master’s degree in a way that will justify a substantial price premium.
https://eliterate.us/online-learning-student-experience-is-the-new-climbing-wall/…
TeacherMade – Quickly Create & Share a Variety of Online Activities
TeacherMade is a new tool that lets you tick both of those boxes. With TeacherMade you can quickly and easily convert some of your favorite “old standby” activities into online activities to share with your students.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/teachermade-quickly-create-share.html
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Virtual Icebreakers for Remote Classrooms
Preparing for the fall 2020 semester and looking for resources to support online learning, teachers have been reaching out on various online teacher communities. One topic that kept popping up was icebreakers and especially what icebreakers worked well in an …
The role of Centres for Teaching and Learning during Covid-19 – and beyond
CTLs report a shift in faculty attitude; faculty pay more attention to their recommendations now than in the past. While they used to ignore the CTLs’ emails and invitations, now they appreciate them.
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