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Ask yourself: Has your boss ever given you a task and demanded you complete it without any internet access?

https://medium.com/future-test/why-online-assessments-should-be-open-book-24978aec68ec#.6gtji8ur9…

Looking for some good tools to use to create and publish your own apps? The list below has you covered. It features a number of key platforms that enable you to easily design educational apps to utilize in your …

An inventor at IBM has patented technology for a cognitive assistant that could learn all about you, then remind you of a name you can’t remember the moment you need to say it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/sorry-dave-afraid-i-cant-do-that/431559/…

If you need a timer for your class activities, these are the three timer tools that recommend more than any others.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/02/my-three-favorite-classroom-timer-tools.html…

We were curious to know  which Chrome extensions are being used the most in schools today, so we spoke with over 30 educators from around the country, to see what they’re installing on their Chromebook fleets!

http://newmindgroup.com/2015/11/30/7-teacher-approved-chrome-extensions/…

Apple has expanded its research efforts in virtual and augmented reality, building out a large team that is experimenting with headsets and other technologies, reports Financial Times in a detailed post on the company’s virtual reality work that covers …

Microsoft is ramping up its push to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10. If you haven’t already downloaded Windows 10, your computer may do it for you automatically as soon as this week. Microsoft …

Build an edtech teaching toolkit that works for you with reliable tools that suit your needs and circumstances. Learning should focus on content, not on figuring out how a tool works. While I’ll probably use 100 tools during any …

The findings in this report provide a snapshot of the B.C. post-secondary system as a whole, we also explore similarities and differences in OER use among faculty across the three institution types in British Columbia: research-intensive universities, teaching-intensive universities, …

Virtual Private Network is a personal network created over the internet that allows your network traffic to pass using a secure and encrypted connection.

http://fossbytes.com/a-guy-just-made-this-giant-comparison-chart-featuring-100-vpn-services/…

There is a lot to achieve by 3-D printing in front of the world, but it is not keeping the researchers to halt in working from pushing ahead. Brace yourself as 4D printing is here, the researchers are developing the …

Christine Ortiz is taking a leave from her prestigious post as a professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start a radical, new nonprofit university that she says will have no majors, no lectures, and no …

We are sharing with you some excellent books we have reviewed in the last few years. These are works guaranteed to stretch your intellectual muscles and elevate you to a state of illumination.  We invite you to check them …