Category: Edtech

After recent integration with Google Classroom, Unicheck, a leading plagiarism checker has already announced a new add-on release for Google Docs. For the user this plagiarism checker add-on introduces the same core functionality, combined with several new convenience-level changes involving …

Here are some other ways parents and educators can monitor and manage children’s screen time on mobile devices.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-02-09-need-to-go-on-a-tech-diet-current-ways-to-fight-your-device-addiction…

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/teaching-assistant-robots-will-reinvent-academia…

It’s official: Facebook is for old(er) people. Teens and young adults are ditching Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as popularity among the over-55s surges, according to a report.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/12/is-facebook-for-old-people-over-55s-flock-in-as-the-young-leave…

As mobile technology continues to steal the spotlight in K-12 classroom methodology, certain areas of study tend to be gravitating towards the trends more strongly. Last week an Education Market Research report found that 28 percent of class time for …

We propose and briefly discuss realist evaluation as a promising approach to evaluating educational interventions and for advancing our theoretical understanding of the flipped classroom. We argue that realist evaluation provides an analytical framework for posing the next generation of …

Google Drive has become an indispensable tool in my digital toolbox. Today I have put together a list of five Google Drive tips to help teachers, students, or ANYONE make the most of Google Drive.

http://shakeuplearning.com/blog/5-google-drive-tips-everyone-should-know/…

Despite Government calls for smartphones to be banned in classrooms, some experts say doing so would take education back “a few years”.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-05/debate-on-mobile-phones-in-the-classroom/9397898

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Below are some resources that teachers may find useful when attempting to implement technology into their classrooms, separated by 5 common areas that are increasingly important for teachers, and for an effective learning environment—Organization, Project Based Learning, Class Management, Presentations, …

Here are some of the biggest ways Finland is winning in global education.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/finland-education-beats-us-2017-5…

Christine Peterson finally publishes her account of that fateful day, 20 years ago.

https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software…

In today’s post we are sharing with you this visual featuring over 90 EdTech start-ups that are shaping the future of education.

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/02/top-edtech-start-ups-that-are-shaping.html…

YouTube video essays are long-form (relative to many other internet videos) critical videos that make arguments about media and culture. They’re usually meticulously narrated and edited, juxtaposing video footage, images, audio, and text to make an argument much like a …