A list of great tricks for those who use Google tools!
http://www.alicekeeler.com/2016/12/26/10-google-apps-tricks-learn-2017/…
Online Students Need More Face-to-face Time, Not Less
An analysis of the factors that predicted student performance in online classes — factors that included course design and use of technology, among others — found that only one predicted better grades: the depth of interpersonal interaction among students and …
Why Adaptive Courseware Will Scale in Higher Ed
Adaptive courseware is a technology that can provide academics with valuable information regarding who needs help, and in wh at areas. It can also allow faculty to reshape valuable classroom time so that the focus is instead on active learning …
Using Video to Improve Teaching Practice
Technology now makes it easier than ever to use video in coaching. At a very basic level, every teacher with a smartphone has the ability to create a video of herself/himself teaching.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/10/using-video-to-improve-teaching-practice.html…
A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon
A new ransomware epidemic, dubbed “Bad Rabbit,” is spreading at an unprecedented rate thanks to its use of “Eternalromance,” an open source Python version of the NSA’s Eternalsynergy tool, which was also dumped by the Shadow Brokers.
We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
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Presentation of the Week: AI and Machine Learning Demystified
Schedule a Phone Call to Yourself and Politely Escape any Boring Situation
You have been invited to a meeting that would last really long. You cannot say “no” but secretly wish that someone calls your phone in the middle of that never-ending meeting and rescue you from the boring situation. Well, you …
Adobe says it wants AI to amplify human creativity and intelligence
Adobe says that it has no interest in building a general artificial intelligence platform — instead, it wants to build a platform squarely focused on helping its customers be more creative.
10 Ways To Use Facebook In The Classroom
When you begin to see Facebook as a potential education tool, you will discover several ways to integrate this platform into your classroom. To help you begin, let’s look at ten ways to use Facebook in the classroom.
http://www.theedadvocate.org/10-ways-use-facebook-classroom/…
Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
The digitized notebooks debuted in 2007 as a joint project of the British Library and Microsoft called “Turning the Pages 2.0,” an interactive feature that allows viewers to “turn” the pages of the notebooks with animations. Onscreen glosses explain the …
The Crowdsourcing Fallacy
Jake Orlowitz makes the important point that crowdsourcing isn’t simply about assembling a crowd. A number of things need to be in place before the crowd can work effectively, and he lists a bunch of them: the crowd has to …
Tracking online learning in Canadian universities and colleges
A survey of online learning and distance education in Canadian public post-secondary education.
AlphaGo Zero trains itself to be most powerful Go player in the world
While previous versions of AlphaGo initially trained on thousands of human amateur and professional games to learn how to play Go, AlphaGo Zero skips this step. It learns to play from scratch, simply by playing games against itself, starting from …
Welcome to the era of the Google ecosystem
Android? Nope. Chrome OS? Nah. Google’s new focus is firmly on itself as an ecosystem — and that is one monumental change.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3233300/mobile-wireless/google-ecosystem.html…