It has always been good advice to take what you see on the internet with a pinch of salt, but online video has lately become even less trustworthy. Deepfakes, clips altered or fabricated with an artificial intelligence technique called machine …
Metacognition and Why it Matters in Education
Metacognition enables students to reflect on who they are, what they know, what they want to know, and how they can get to that point.
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/10/metacognition-and-why-it-matters-in-education/…
3 ways AI is changing education right now (and in the future)
The future of AI in education is only limited by our imaginations and the speed at which technology is developed.
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/10/08/3-ways-ai-is-changing-education-right-now-and-in-the-future/…
Pros and Cons of Virtual Reality-Based Learning
This is a good assessment of the potential for virtual reality (VR) in education. The author notes that lower-quality VR may produce nausea, and that because it is totally immersive, VR has limited application in combination with other activities.
Digital Badges Continue to Grow – Are You Using Them at Your School Yet?
If you’ve been paying attention to the evolution of digital badging you know that it has been on a steady upward trajectory for over a decade or so now. And thanks to efforts like the Connecting Credentials initiative, the potential …
Why language is humanity’s greatest invention
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Presentation of the Week: Topics in Distributed Learning Technology
Hypersay – For Creating Engaging Training and Conferencing Presentations
Hypersay is a great tool for making presentations both interactive, multimedia and digital. All you have to do is upload your existing presentations (PDF, PPT or Google Slides) to the platform and then you can start to add interactions such …
AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
As AI gets better at performing routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only stressful ones will be left. The work experience could suffer.
My Favorite Source for High Quality, Copyright-Free Images and Videos
Students and teachers need good sources of copyright-free images. I’ve shared other sites and strategies before, but Pixabay is hands-down my favorite site for copyright-free images and video. What sets Pixabay apart is quality. The images and videos are of …
Digital natives: where is the evidence?
This paper will critique and show new evidence against this conception of the digital native as based purely on generational differences.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27739/1/Digital_natives_%28LSERO%29.pdf…
Loop – A Nice System for Gathering Feedback from Students
There is no shortage of online tools for gathering feedback from students. Loop lets you create an online classroom to post questions for your students to respond to with emojis, with words, or by selecting an answer choice. You can …
10 Tools for Developing Students’ Listening Skills
For many students listening is the hardest of the four skills to master. Unlike reading, listening happens in real time and it can be hard to control the speed of the information coming at them. There are now a great …
What Makes a Great Teacher: Pedagogy or Personality?
Of course, a teacher’s passion, charisma, warmth, and humor influence the way students experience a class. But teachers aren’t really “born” knowing how to connect and inspire children in a classroom setting. Instead, they must grow these capacities by continually …
Jumping from one resource to another: how do students navigate learning networks?
This paper presents a model showing how students form connections to different kinds of resources, along with the criteria they use to decide on which resource to choose. The findings were derived by conducting retrospective think-aloud sessions with nine participants …