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COVID changed education, and post-pandemic learning will look different–here’s how edtech plays a crucial role.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2022/12/06/online-solutions-to-new-post-pandemic-realities/…

Vanier College is proud to announce that the newly created Campus Biodiversity Network will be launched during the United Nations COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity to be held in Montreal December 7-19, 2022. The new Campus Biodiversity Network is a …

The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers. A recent study by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, concluded the pandemic had ‘sped up’ some of this reorganizing, …

OpenAI has recently released their latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot prototype powered by a model from the GPT-3.5 series. It provides a service where you can ask questions and it comes back with a detailed answer in a conversational way. …

Z-Library, recently taken offline by the FBI, was a free, online shadow library that offered students relief from these expenses. Users could download textbooks from numerous academic publishers through the site for free. For students, the shutdown of Z-Library seems …

This article is about the future of AI-generated lesson plans and how we might think about this development today and into the future.  

https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=15151…

How will machine learning disrupt education, say five to ten years down the road? My guess: individualized tutors. Imagine a tutor working with you teaching you important concepts, walking you through examples, answering your questions, going at your own pace.…

In the last few years, interactive notebooks (INBs) have become incredibly popular in all sorts of classrooms. If you’re new to the concept, or just unsure of where to start, here’s what you need to bring this learning tool to …

Whether you’re looking to shorten work to meet a word count or you can’t quite get the wording right, these eight online paraphrasing tools will help.

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-online-paraphrasing-tools/…

“Web 3.0” has been the center of much discussion this year. Advocates believe that Web 3.0 will unleash a radical and beneficial transformation of the Internet. Detractors claim that Web 3.0 is little more than a buzzword for marketing purposes. …

Last year, a test of cephalopod smarts reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish were given a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appeared to demonstrate that there’s more going …

Cohere is making natural language processing accessible to all developers and businesses.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90815628/a-platform-that-can-read-and-write…

Do yourself a favor and save all your important documents on your computer.

https://lifehacker.com/its-never-been-easier-to-digitize-your-life-1849816670…

Why has covid produced a longing for in-person learning, rather than a great drive for online learning? In our professional lives, the appeal of space and place interactions, while increasingly augmented with online engagement, remains strong.

https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=15047…

It’s got some room for improvement, but the Scribe delivers on its promise of an e-reader that you can use to take notes, mark up documents and doodle.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-kindle-scribe-review/…