Without question, social media platforms (including Facebook and Twitter) need to dramatically and quickly improve their capabilities and policies to both identify “bad actors” and limit the harmful damage they can do online around the world. Here are a few …
Flexible Classroom Seating and Reimagining Classroom Culture
Classroom furniture has often been an afterthought in many schools, but furniture can and does have a significant impact at all levels.
http://www.bsdfutureready.com/blog/flexible-classroom-seating-and-reimagining-classroom-culture…
Innovative Educators Don’t Recommend Screen Time Limits
What recommendations should we be giving parents and youth when it comes to screen time? In past limiting some types of screen time made sense. A time when the American Pediatric Association (AAP) made long-standing screen time limits recommendations. However, …
Introducing DigiGlot, a newsletter about languages and tech
DigiGlot is a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter that reports on how indigenous, minority, and endangered language communities are adopting and adapting technology to increase the digital presence of their languages, and in the process changing the internet landscape by increasing linguistic …
Learning Engineering: Making Education More “Professional”
The evolution of ed tech has always demonstrated that as tech platforms get more complex, product teams turn to other disciplines to get the expertise they need.
7 Ways Games Enhance Learning
Watching and analyzing how people play games reveal a great deal on the process of learning. Gaming theorist, Tom Hatfield (author of the popular book/; Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century) contends that successful video games include 7 learning …
Introducing the Teaching and Learning Professional Development portal
The TLPD portal (phase one) focuses on sharing and showcasing professional development learning events by B.C. public post-secondary institutions. These events can be searched by topic, keyword, location, or date.
Remove Image Backgrounds With PhotoScissors
PhotoScissors is a free image editing tool that you can use to remove the background from your images. PhotoScissors is available to use for free online and is available to download as desktop software.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/01/remove-image-background-with.html…
7 ways to search without using Google
For those special searches, here are seven search sites you can use other than Google. These services cover a range of themes and needs, but you’re almost guaranteed to find one useful – and you might find yourself consulting it …
Presentation of the Week: Trusted Learning Analytics
Governments don’t understand cyber warfare. We need hackers
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The 5 Technologies that will Change Networking in 2019
The networking field is changing fast. This year, several emerging technologies will fundamentally impact how businesses and their employees connect. The good news is that each technology also represents a solid opportunity to improve some aspect of how a company …
Moving Towards Sustainable Policy and Practice – A Five Level Framework for Online Learning Sustainability
This paper addresses the issue of sustainability in online learning in higher education. It introduces and discusses a five-level framework for helping higher education institutions to make the transition from enterprise to sustainable policy and practice in online learning.
What is digital literacy?
It’s perhaps not surprising that there are different answers to this question and every answer we’ve found has limits and challenges. We want to try to introduce our students to the richness of the question and to ask how this …
Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, but Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems
When it comes to textbooks, faculty members have a lot of feelings. Many of them negative. But their thoughts on digital coursework and openly licensed materials aren’t any less conflicted.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Worry-About-the/245435…