My year reading a book from every country in the world
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Presentation of the Week: Digital Literacies, Learning Pathways & Open Badges
The Connected School: How IoT Could Impact Education
The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon be called the Internet of Everything (IoE). By the year 2020, it is predicted that more than 50 billion connected devices will be on the Internet. How will the Internet of Things …
Getting More with Digital Diagnostic Assessments
The benefits of this transition to digital assessment included richer question types, greater insight into student knowledge and problem-solving skills, and access to rich (auto-generated) reports.
http://edulastic.com/blog/getting-more-with-digital-diagnostic-assessments/…
Big Data in E-Learning: Looking To the Future
As more and more institutions continue use e-learning, the amount of data coming out from these courses are multiplying considerably. For a thorough understanding of Big Data and its possible effects on the future of education, one must first …
The Future Belongs to the Curious: How Are We Bringing Curiosity Into School?
Curiosity is the quest for new ideas and information. Folks who are curious aren’t satisfied with what they already know or have figured out. They go after what they don’t know or can’t understand—and that missing information can become …
How to Organize Google Drive
After using Drive for any length of time, your filing and organization system can quickly get out of hand, especially when you are faced with what to do with files that have been shared with you. So, here are …
What Educators Want from Digital Tools (2.0)
This study of more than 3,100 teachers revisits key questions explored in the original Teachers Know Best report: how teachers use digital instructional tools in the classroom, as well as their attitudes towards technology and whether they believe existing …
Meet four Toronto EdTech startups who are changing education — for the better
An increasing number of startups are training their focus on EdTech, developing products and solutions that make learning easier, better, faster and more streamlined. Meet some of the Canadian startups doing just that.
6 reasons why Chromebooks are the device of the moment
By all accounts, Chromebooks are the device of the moment, with 2.5 million shipped to schools in the first half of this year alone. There’s no doubt they’re trendy, but is there any deeper reasons for the sales surge …
The Digital Revolution Is Coming to the Classroom
Studies from the Gates Foundation show tech in the classroom is becoming more common and can boost student performance.
The shape of classrooms to come
These days, education is swinging from intimate in-person seminars to massive online open courses. Georgetown University’s come up with something in between.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/11/09/the-shape-of-classrooms-to-come/…
A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language
A group of researchers from the University of Sassari (Italy) and the University of Plymouth (UK) has developed a cognitive model, made up of two million interconnected artificial neurons, able to learn to communicate using human language starting from …
Presentation of the Week: Learning is Not a Mechanism: Assessment, Student Agency, and Digital Spaces
The moral bias behind your search results
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