Are you looking for some new ways to keep students engaged through the end of the school year? Here are 6 tools that I have found to be quite helpful as this school year winds down. More importantly, these …
The 5 Books On Bill Gates’s Summer Reading List
If you are worried your beach reads might be a little too easy this summer, Gates has some more heady suggestions for you.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40423240/bill-gates-summer-reading-list-from-jimmy-carter-to-trevor-noah…
Walking the line of predictive analytics in higher education
The age of big data and advanced analytics thrusts higher education institutions into uncharted territory. Predictive analytics opens a Pandora’s box of controversial questions: What are the ethical guidelines for telling students a discouraging prediction? Would discouraging information decrease …
Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?
If MOOCs are a sort of robot, then why haven’t the MOOC robots taken the faculty jobs? MOOCs seem like the poster child for technological unemployment. The faculty job market may be grim, but I don’t think that MOOCs …
Meet the interactive robot making a mark on Quebec’s classrooms
While the NAO humanoid robot sounds much like a work of science fiction, the 58-centimetre machine is actually making a difference in some Quebec classrooms. A researcher from the Université de Montréal has helped bring the NAO into four …
6 Good Websites that Provide Open Digital Textbooks for Teachers
This is a list featuring some popular platforms that provide open digital textbooks. Textbooks are arranged into different categories and content areas. Some of the textbooks are available for free download in various formats others can only be read …
Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I.
The world’s best player of what might be humankind’s most complicated board game was defeated on Tuesday by a Google computer program. Adding insult to potentially deep existential injury, he was defeated at Go — a game that claims …
MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2017 video presentations are now available
A selection of videos featuring presentations from the recent MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2017 is now available for viewing on Moodle’s YouTube channel.
https://moodle.com/2017/05/16/moodlemoot-uk-ireland-2017-video-presentations-now-available/…
Benefits of Using Backchannels In Your Classroom
Here are some of the key benefits of using backchannels in your classroom.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/benefits-of-using-backchannels-in-your.html…
Presentation of the Week: A Model of Personal Learning
Why school should start later for teens
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5 Things We’ve Learned About How Companies Track You Online And Off
The ability for companies to follow you from one platform to another — from your phone to your laptop to a physical store — is called cross-device tracking, and for businesses that want to market and sell stuff to …
An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly Well
Training software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607828/an-algorithm-summarizes-lengthy-text-surprisingly-well/…
My favorite college professor was YouTube
As I get ready to walk at my college graduation next week, I have more gratitude for one thing above all: YouTube. YouTube was my go to while doing homework, prepping for exams or just when I needed to …
How Artificial Intelligence enhances education
Artificial Intelligence has proven its role as a game changing factor in an increasing number of fields, causing transformations unimaginable in the past. It’s now showing glimmers of how it might forever change the learning process, one of the …