The 100,000-student classroom
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Presentation of the Week: Ethical considerations about the datafication of education
What Is Gamification In Education? 6 Ways To Gamify Your Classroom
Can education be fun? The gamification of education is taking schoolwork and turning it into entertainment. Therein, the teacher uses interactive boards like ViewBoard, and other tools to disguise lessons as games that students will be eager to engage in. …
Beautiful Questions: “How Humans Learn” and the Future of Education
The author starts with a pair of disarmingly simple queries: What can sociological and neurological research tell us about learning, and do our dominant pedagogies align with these insights?
Mac’s Accessibility Features Teachers Should Know About
You will get to learn how you can use Mac’s VoiceOver with the blind and those with low vision, the different things people who are deaf or hard of hearing can do with Siri, how to tap into Mac’s assistive …
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of paintings. It’s not perfect, but when it …
Microsoft, Alphabet team up to teach quantum computer programming
The very concept of a quantum computer can be daunting, let alone programming it, but Microsoft thinks it can offer a helping hand. It’s partnering with Alphabet’s X and Brilliant on an online curriculum for quantum computing. The course starts …
A Handy Tool to Create Interactive Content for Your Class
Genially is a web tool you can use to create animated and interactive content for your class. You can design presentations, infographics, portfolios, video presentations, posters, CVS, quizzes, games and many more. Creating visual stories is simple and easy and …
Social Assessment™: New Ways of Learning, A Modern Framework for Feedback
How Social Assessment can drive employee engagement and improve performance.
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Tips to Keep Video Production Afloat: Dipping Your Toe Into the Open Water
Discover how video can be used to solve problems in education. Seek answers to challenges the audience has faced in their own use of video. Identify time-saving strategies for video production.
Why Competency-Based Education Is Exciting And Where It May Stumble
Competency-based education has piqued the interest of many communities because of its promise to make learning a more personal experience for students. In a competency-based model, children move through school based on their ability to demonstrate proficiency in skills and …
This 20-year-old Montreal student speaks 19 languages — and counting
At the age of 20, the Montreal linguistics student can already speak 19 different languages, most of which he taught himself through a combination of internet videos, music and conversation with friends.
Future Learning in an Advanced Decentralized Learning Ecosystem
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Presentation of the Week: The Third Wave: the Next Generation of Distributed Learning Technology
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help
Artificial intelligence that reads journal articles and highlights key findings could help researchers stay on top of the latest research. But the technology isn’t ready for prime time.