You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities…
7 Free Teaching Tools You Might Not Have Heard Of
Explore these free alternative web-based tools that support learning.
https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/7-free-teaching-tools-you-might-not-have-heard-of
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AI is growing in higher education, but it isn’t automating everything
Higher education institutions are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence as a helping hand in major decisions like admissions and counseling, but AI is still serving as an assistant, not a full-time employee.
Podcastle- An Easy Way to Convert Text to Podcasts
Podcastle is a text to speech Chrome extension that allows you to convert text into podcasts. This is an ideal tool for multitaskers who would rather engage in various tasks in real time. Whether it’s your favourite blog posts, news …
Time to Rethink AI Proctoring?
Proctoring companies that use artificial intelligence to monitor students’ behavior during online exams typically require university instructors to review footage of unusual activity. But is that human oversight actually happening?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/28/are-colleges-checking-ais-work-remote-exam-proctoring…
Assessing Students as in a Video Game
If you ask teenagers to do their homework they’ll find a thousand other things to do. But put them in front of a video game, and they’ll focus on it for hours. How exactly do game designers create this kind …
Factile- An Easy Way to Create Jeopardy-style Quiz Games
Factile is an excellent web tool that enables teachers to create multimedia quiz games for their classroom. Using a simple and intuitive gameboard, teachers will get to create engaging quiz games without the need for any coding skills.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2021/05/factile-easy-way-to-create-jeopardy.html…
How Are Final Exams Changing During the Pandemic?
The academic year is winding down at schools and colleges, and some instructors are rethinking their usual approach to final exams to fit this unprecedented time.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-05-18-how-are-final-exams-changing-during-the-pandemic
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An Analysis of Digital Education in Canada in 2017-2019
In this study, we report a systematic analysis of qualitative data exploring the digital education landscape in Canada and its changes over time. Findings shed light on the growth of digital education, the situated and multidimensional nature of digital education, …
Teens who use internet for more than an hour daily have lower grades
The study included 10,000 students, with an average age of 13.5 years. Teens who used the internet, social media or video games for four or more hours daily were four times more likely to skip school than those who did …
Can Machines Control Our Brains?
Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control.
Intellectual Integrity: It Can Be Learned!
Since spring 2015, the community of practice of the Réseau des répondantes et répondants TIC (REPTIC) and the Regroupement des bibliothèques collégiales du Québec (REBICQ) [in Fench] have combined their expertise and strengths to address a growing concern within the …
A Collaborative Brainstorming and Voting Tool – No Registration Required
Brainstormer doesn’t require any kind of registration in order to use it. At the end of every brainstorming session students can vote for their favorite ideas that were submitted during the session.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/05/a-collaborative-brainstorming-and.html…
Recommendations for Good Practice Using AI in Learning
This is intended to be a quick and accessible summary you can give to management.
https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2021/05/recommendations-for-good-practice-using.html…
Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment
Learn more about rubrics and alternative assessments in our online courses, online certificates, and graduate degree.