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RSS is a family of technologies that give you a simple feed from a spot on the web—a news site, a podcast, a blog—into your RSS reader. It’s a timeline of sorts, yes, but it runs at a sane speed, …

Try your hand at robotics with Nybble, a programmable cat that walks, bats its paws, and even regains its balance after a jump from a tall surface. The cat is the brainchild of RongzhongLi of Petoi, who built the feline …

Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem is an implementation blueprint for connecting learning experiences across time and space. This co-created plan represents an advancement of how and where learning will occur in the future.

https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/modernizing-learning-building-future-learning-ecosystem

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With Jisc’s learning analytics service going live last summer, we caught up with some of the people who are part of the community of practice shaping the service, to find out how implementation is going and what learning analytics is …

As in many other fields, AI in education is focused on performing cognitive functions such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving with application to vast the challenges and opportunities of continuously educating the 7.7 billion people on the planet.

https://www.holoniq.com/notes/ai-potential-adoption-and-barriers-in-global-education/…

Good resources to help you creating interactive video-based lessons.

https://practicaledtech.com/2019/04/07/creating-interactive-videos-video-based-lessons/…

In 2018, Chinese startups received over 50% of all the capital invested by venture capitalists in EdTechs worldwide. Chinese EdTech companies received more money than the total amount invested in EdTech firms from all other countries combined.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2019/04/05/why-is-china-the-worlds-leader-in-edtech/#40b73a25756e…

When there are debates about the world’s top performing education systems, the names that usually get mentioned are the Asian powerhouses such as Singapore and South Korea or the Nordic know-alls, such as Finland or Norway. But with much less …

Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1…

Microsoft just announced that it is beefing up Outlook with new AI-driven features. In the next few weeks (in North America in English), it will roll out a trio of features in Outlook on the web to expedite meeting prep, …

Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep neural networks. Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto (UofT), has been named a recipient …

Researchers from the University of Michigan found parents talked more about the technology than content when using electronic books. With print, the frequency and quality of interactions were better, said lead author Dr Tiffany Munzer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47666948…

From 100 per cent renewable power and scientifically-driven longevity to neurotechnology and automated deliberation, these are the breakthroughs that will shape the future of humanity.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hay-festival-2019-technology-science-breakthrough…