A new online science education platform offers free access to personalized learning content, virtual lab experiences and networking with the global scientific community.
How Can I Save All My Emails for a Personal Backup?
Having a personal copy of your work emails can definitely come in handy both before and after you leave a job. You can refer to them later, for example, to document feedback you received or projects you worked on—perhaps for …
Personalized Learning: The Why, How, and What
Personalized learning is about meeting the individual needs of all learners in utilizing digital and non-digital strategies.
https://esheninger.blogspot.com/2020/01/personalized-learning-why-how-and-what.html…
Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook
The new ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ tool reminds us we’re living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. Here are the privacy settings to change right now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/28/off-facebook-activity-page/
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Quickly Create & Share Transcripts of YouTube Videos
VidReader was one of my favorite new tools in 2019. It’s a tool that makes it easy to create an interactive transcript of any YouTube video.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/01/quickly-create-share-transcripts-of.html…
In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?
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Presentation of the Week: The Crisis of Self Sovereignty in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Welcome to the CDS Accessibility Handbook
The Canadian Digital Service is committed to building accessible and inclusive services. Building accessible services means meeting the needs of as many people as possible. From the start, we work with the people who will use a product, including people …
Teacher tips, hero features, and other useful ideas to inspire your Kahoot!’ing in 2020
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to find and try some new ideas for your classroom. Find them right here! We prepared a cheat sheet with new features, inspiring teacher tips, and other useful things for …
Fighting Fake News in the Classroom
With social media so tightly woven into the fabric of society, it is unrealistic to think that I can get people to stop using it to obtain information. So, if we won’t stop getting information from these sources, what is …
The Top 5 Tech Trends That Will Disrupt Education In 2020 – The EdTech Innovations Everyone Should Watch
Here we consider the key technologies that underpin the EdTech revolution as well as the top 5 tech trends set to disrupt education in 2020.
How to Use the New Creative Commons Chrome Extension
Creative Commons just released a new Chrome extension that enables users to find Creative Commons licensed images without having to leave the browser tabs their currently viewing.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/01/how-to-use-new-creative-commons-chrome.html…
Reverb Record – Quickly Create Voice Recordings
Reverb is a relatively new service (still in beta) that is designed to let people create short voice recordings to share with others.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/01/reverb-record-quickly-create-voice.html…
Another Excellent Resource to Help Students with Their Writing
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL, which belongs to Purdue University, has a huge online library that features a wide variety of materials …
This School Banned iPads, Going Back to Regular Textbooks—But What Does the Science Say?
Research in Canada, where more than 6,000 students use iPads every day for learning, highlighted both the pros and cons of using iPads in the classroom. The study noted that access to information and student motivation were among the pros, …