Category: Edtech

Google has released updated AIY Vision and AIY Voice kits that include what you need to get started. There’s a Raspberry Pi in the box, plus a new Android app.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/16/google-aiy-kits-include-raspberry-pi/…

While we’ve been inundated over the past few years with the promises and potentials of virtual reality (VR), it’s been tough to slice through the hype to find facts, especially the kind of trustworthy research on VR adoption, effects, and …

Whether you want to create an educational tutorial, an explanatory screencast, or and illustrative visual, these whiteboard apps empower you with the required tools to unleash your creative thinking. Check them out and  share with us your feedback in our …

Smartphone owners who want to learn how to code can learn the fundamentals with Google’s new app, “Grasshopper,” which launched Wednesday.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-app-grasshopper/…

There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, so there’s bound to be great interest in the news that the corporation has now made more than 16,000 of its FX available for free download.…

With the proliferation of web technologies and mobile apps, the concept of a paperless digital classroom becomes more relevant than any time before. This post features some of our favourite web tools and apps teachers can use to transform their …

Google is partnering with 3D laser-scanning nonprofit CyArk to build VR representations of world wonders.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17241710/google-cyark-partnership-vr-virtual-reality-preserve-historical-sites…

Passive learning with devices involves the consumption of information and low-level and engagement instructional techniques such as taking notes, reading, and digital worksheets.  On the other hand, active learning empowers students through meaningful activities where they actively apply what has …

AI is especially influential for children who need special education.  Developing fully intelligent education tools and new virtual teaching assistants will take time for sure. But given the current technological advancements, here is the five changes AI is already making …

Focusing on the massive open online course (MOOC) platform, the purpose of this study is to realize personalized adaptive learning according to the needs and abilities of each learner.  

http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/8470…

Like traditional bullying, there are warning signs for teachers to watch for in their students. These signs can help you identify a victim or a cyberbully and step into the situation. Cyberbullying can be quite harmful to the well-being of …

Google launched a new experience today that it’s calling Talk to Books. It’s pretty much what it sounds like: the demo asks for input in the form of regular old sentences, then tries to locate logical responses to those …

Supercomputers often take up the size of a basketball court and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but as Github user Wei Lin has demonstrated, it’s possible to make a homebrew computing cluster that doesn’t break the bank.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpb78/diy-computing-cluster-esp32-raspberry-pi…