The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to …
What makes a good instructional video?
What makes a good instructional video? What does the research say, and how can it help us think about organising the content of our videos?
https://teachthinkblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/what-makes-a-good-instructional-video/…
Tired of Gmail? Try a Privacy-First Email Provider
Your inbox holds plenty of sensitive information. Here are some alternatives that put your correspondence under lock and key.
https://www.wired.com/story/tired-of-gmail-try-a-privacy-first-email-provider…
My Top Personal Learning Tools 2020
I’ve named my list ‘personal learning tools’ because I think of learning as an activity that blends my own activities as a ‘student’ with those as a ‘teacher’. It’s a practice that thinks of learning as immersive and ongoing; I …
Five Features of Microsoft Teams to Note
Five interesting things to pay attention to on Microsoft Teams.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/five-features-of-microsoft-teams-to-note.html…
Pixel is a powerful, portal, personal pocketful of AI
Pixel is a little sandbox for consumer AI, so gives us insights into the way technology is moving and therefore the way online learning will move.
https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/pixel-is-powerful-portal-personal.html…
Canada Learning Code Launches K-12 Computer Science Education Framework
Canada Learning Code, a non-profit organization that promotes digital literacy education, has unveiled a new national computer science education framework designed to serve students from kindergarten to Grade 12.
https://betakit.com/canada-learning-code-launches-k-12-computer-science-education-framework/…
Art in the age of machine intelligence
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Presentation of the Week: Paper or Screen Reading?
10 quick and easy tools to boost your EdTech confidence
Here are 11 easy-to-use and worthwhile EdTech tools that can be integrated seamlessly into your lessons for a host of different purposes.
https://www.tes.com/news/ed-tech-tools-tips-lessons-boost-technology-lockdown…
Here’s what the future of classrooms looks like
From hologram professors to virtual field trips to the Amazon, here are a few of the trends that could shape the classroom of the future.
https://thenextweb.com/growth-quarters/2020/08/10/heres-what-the-future-of-classrooms-looks-like/…
Zoom from Teacher and Student Perspectives
I have always found it helpful to look at tools from the students’ perspectives as well as my teacher perspective. Doing that helps me better understand how students will use the tools and better prepares me to help them troubleshoot …
The NSA’s Tips to Keep Your Phone From Tracking You
These steps all involve some degree of convenience trade-off, so consider your comfort level and risk profile and adjust accordingly. A lot of it, though, you can implement with minimal interruption to your regularly scheduled smartphone usage.
https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-tips-smartphone-data-canon-ransomware-twitter-bug-security-news…
Google Lens’ new ‘Homework’ filter will solve math problems from a photo
You’ll be able to take photos of math problems to bring up step-by-step solutions and concept explainers.
https://www.engadget.com/google-lens-socratic-math-problems-102931355.html…
Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection
This paper reports on a collaborative test of 15 web-based text-matching systems that can be used when plagiarism is suspected. The sobering results show that although some systems can indeed help identify some plagiarized content, they clearly do not find …