Things move fast in the edtech world, and we hear all the time from teachers how hard it can be to keep up. This is why we’ve created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz …
Things move fast in the edtech world, and we hear all the time from teachers how hard it can be to keep up. This is why we’ve created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz …
Here are eight great activities and tools to foster an environment of collaboration in your classroom.
Could a robot do your job? Millions of people who didn’t see automation coming will soon find out the painful way. The answer is a resounding yes.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/jobs-of-future-and-skills-you-need/…
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” – Elon Musk
http://teacherrebootcamp.com/2016/09/11/feedbackscreencasting/…
As companies increasingly seek to update and modernize their digital workplace, along with the supporting skills their workers, they frequently struggle to determine what an effective organizing principle should be.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-the-organizing-principle-of-todays-digital-workplace/…
Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation. At Harvard a few years ago, a professor complained that the most common grade was an A-. He was quickly corrected: The most common grade …
New income and expenditure data on Canadian universities came out over the summer courtesy of StatsCan and our friends over at the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO), so today it’s time to check in on what the latest …
Years ago, in an interview, Steve Jobs told the world what courage means for Apple. He called it a quality that allows Apple to choose right technologies for its products and users. He also said that if the customers …
To ban or not to ban, that is always the question when it comes to personal devices in the classroom. While pushing students to learn outside our classrooms is a step in the right direction, how do we ensure …
According to researchers, a new computer based brain training program helps improve a child’s performance in math and reading.
Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/…
Microsoft has accepted that Windows 10 has failed to perform as expected. The software giant hoped that by mid-2018, Windows 10 will be running on 1 billion devices. Now, this number seems far-fetched due the constantly shrinking PC market …
A bunch of plant nuts decided to build Plantbot. You take or upload a photo of a plant, and using some machine learning tools available online, it’ll tell you whether or not your plant is healthy and what might …