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How can a distracted generation learn anything?
If smartphones are harming our ability to focus, how should teachers change their methods to give children the skills they need?
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190220-how-can-a-distracted-generation-learn-anything…
Galaxy Fold is here — with six cameras and two batteries
Samsung’s first truly flexible device converts from a phone to a tablet and will be available April 26.
https://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-fold-is-here-with-six-cameras-two-batteries-for-1980/
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Six Tools To Create Interactive Learning Content On Your Blog
There are different ways to embed eLearning options on blogs. In this post, you’ll see six different free tools that you might find useful to make your class blog or website more interactive.
How sharing work can build students’ networks
What if the work that students created served as the launching pad for building and nurturing connections? How might tools and schools organize themselves with this virtuous cycle wherein learning and connecting are intricately linked?
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/how-sharing-work-can-build-students-networks/…
Here Is A Good Video Converter Tool to Try Out
Video Converter is a good web tool and Chrome app that allows you to convert a wide range of media format to MP4, AVI, MPEG, FLV, 3GP. For teachers, this simple tool does serve the purpose, for those of you …
Canada OER Group – 2019 update
A 2019 update from members of the Canada OER Group, a growing assembly of educators collaboratively working on open educational resources across the country.
https://bccampus.ca/2019/02/19/canada-oer-group-2019-update/…
Vision 2030: Redesigning Education for the Future
This work speaks to how changes impact learning at a concrete and practical level by creating changes in the lives of individual learners. It looks at what learning will become and how we provide for that new kind of learning.…
4 Good Digital Textbook resources for Teachers
Here are some of the websites and apps for digital books. These platforms provide a wide variety of features that include: search for and access digital textbooks, rent or buy textbooks, and some of them (e.g Chegg) offers homework help …
Want To Learn Coding? Check Out These Resources Recommended By Tech Experts
Below, 13 experts share their recommendations for beginners interested in learning coding.
How education helped me rewrite my life
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Presentation of the Week: Edtech tools and categories
Presentation of the Week: Understanding student success in distributed and online learning
The Secrets of Learning a New Language
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Our smartphones aren’t sparking joy, and we need to rethink our addiction to them
Smartphones and computers have not improved education or brought happiness. Most of our digital pastimes are addictive and create empty cravings, not joy.