Category: Edtech

Teachers and administrators from pre-K through 12th grade named these tools their top picks for this year and beyond.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-teacher-picks-best-tech-tools…

The UAE, as an example of a country where students have access to devices, a quality internet service and a variety of educational platforms, was able to continue education in such tough circumstances as presented by the pandemic.

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/education-during-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-united-arab-emirates…

Becoming a super learner is one of the most important skills you need to succeed in the 21st century. In the age of technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education — a lifelong mastery of new models, skills and …

Imagining alternative futures for education pushes us to think through plausible outcomes and helps agile and responsive systems to develop. The OECD Scenarios for the Future of Schooling depict some possible alternatives.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/future-of-education-4-scenarios/…

We all have guilty pleasures. Fun fonts. Rainbow colors. Moving clip art. Patterned borders. But when does design support memory and learning, and when does it get in the way? Slide design, Bitmoji classrooms, learning management system banners, document layouts, …

Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201215131236.htm…

The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the influence of formative and summative assessment approaches based on an intelligent computer system that provides automatic feedback; the assessment is carried out in paper format, but obtaining feedback requires …

Whether we like it or not, digital devices are everywhere. Some of us can barely put them down, even when we’re with cherished family and friends.

https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/centers-and-initiatives/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/about-hmni/archive-brain-0…

Wide Open School (WOS) is a platform developed by the leading non-profit for kids and families Common Sense media. WOS provides access to a wide range of resources designed specifically to help enhance the quality of distance learning. The work …

The Government of New Brunswick is trying to reach young people with posts and ads on social media. But some experts say the message might not be getting across.

https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5887866

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A new breed of web-based virtual environments offering proximity chat (also called spatial chat) mimic the possibility of speaking or collaborating with one or more peers while remaining in the same virtual space as the entire class group.

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/articles/bringing-more-spontaneous-interaction-to-the-virtual-classroom-with-proximity-chat…

Online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) are 2 collaborative strategies that can help students make meaning of the course content and relate to it in an authentic way. For this article I spoke with Patti Kingsmill to find an …

Google’s image recognition technology is already capable of so much, but the most useful feature is real-time language translation using your smartphone. Now the Google Lens app is capable of performing translations without need of an internet connection.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-lens-now-translates-offline…

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to take a fresh look at our examination system and its shortcomings, along with the changing student-teacher dynamics.

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/how-covid-19-has-changed-the-way-we-look-at-exams-1762593-2021-01-25…

People have “lost sight” of how the coronavirus pandemic has “changed learning for the better”, the education secretary has said. While some consequences of remote learning have been “challenging to say the least”, others have actually been “unqualified success”, according …