Amanda Smith talks to Nanci Appleman-Vassil and Gale Mote, who are facilitating the upcoming ATD workshop LearnNow: Flipped Classroom.
https://www.td.org/videos/8330nanci-appleman-gale-mote-podcast-edit…
Sir Ken Robinson: ‘The education system is a dangerous myth’
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Sir Ken Robinson argues that our approach to teaching is wrong – and hundreds of years out of date.
https://www.tes.com/news/sir-ken-robinson-education-system-dangerous-myth…
Finland has the most effective universities in the world
When adjusted for GDP, Finland’s higher education system is the best in the world, according to the latest Universitas 21 (U21) rankings, which compare the higher education systems of countries instead of looking at the strengths and weaknesses of individual …
DIY Tools for Creating Your Own Apps
Developing a good, functioning mobile app is one of those things that takes time to do well and so the summer is a good time to give it a try.
https://practicaledtech.com/2018/05/27/diy-tools-creating-apps/
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Comics belong in the classroom
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Presentation of the Week: Secrets to Impactful Presentations
Google and Coursera launch a new machine learning specialization
The two companies are launching a machine learning specialization on Coursera. This new specialization, which consists of five courses, has an even more practical focus.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/google-and-coursera-launch-a-new-machine-learning-specialization/…
Apple, Google, & Microsoft… Oh My! Which is Best for Your School?
This week the NYCSchoolsTech Team brought innovative educators a chance to hear directly from “The Big Three: Apple, Google, and Microsoft” (listed alphabetically). During this day-long event at state-of-the-art NYCSchoolsTech center, educators from across the city came together to learn …
Speaker Deck – A Simple Way to Share Your Slides
Speaker Deck is a bare-bones service, but it is easy to use and could be useful for sharing presentations that are image and text heavy. For schools that don’t use Google Slides or the online version of PowerPoint, Speaker Deck …
2025: Imagining the Future of Mobile Apps in Higher Education
Students are Likely to Have an Unprecedented Level of Flexibility and Functionality in the Mobile-Enabled Higher Ed World of Tomorrow.
https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/02/imagining-future-of-mobile-apps-higher-education/…
A school in China is monitoring students with facial recognition technology that scans the classroom every 30 seconds
The technology scans classrooms at Hangzhou No. 11 High School every 30 seconds and records students’ facial expressions, categorizing them into happy, angry, fearful, confused, or upset. The system also records student actions such as writing, reading, raising a hand, …
How Helping Students to Ask Better Questions Can Transform Classrooms
Good questioning may be the most basic tenet of lifelong learning and independent thinking that school offers students. Taking the time to activate curiosity doesn’t have to mean abandoning learning standards, nor is it necessarily a waste of time.
Why You Should Be Afraid of “Free” Tech Tools
Typically, no one is going to release an app or tool without making a buck; thus, there has to be a model for monetization. The main reason to be wary of “free” tech tools: big data. An increasingly common means …
6 EdTech Companies That Are Disrupting Higher Education
Now that almost everyone is technologically literate, tech companies have found their place in the higher education market and are slowly but surely changing the way we approach self-improvement. Looking to better yourself after high school or in between jobs? …
9 Web Tools for Creating Digital Magazines
Creating a digital magazine easy nowadays. With web tools, students can layout their writings, pick from hundreds of cool fonts, and add their own images or choose from a library of stock images. Some web tools allow students to embed …