Three people in Illinois have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for its dodgy and unwanted Windows 10 upgrade practices. The plaintiffs are trying to have their case certified as a class action by claiming that Microsoft was unable to …
What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners
The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. But since then, it has evolved into something greater, and the main question every single person …
How To Transform How Students Showcase Their Learning
Adobe Spark is a great presentation tool which is great for: telling stories, explaining processes, introducing a topic, convincing an audience, providing information, showcasing a project. It can be used either via the spark.adobe.com page or by downloading the …
What are the 21st-century skills every student needs?
Today’s job candidates must be able to collaborate, communicate and solve problems – skills developed mainly through social and emotional learning (SEL). Combined with traditional skills, this social and emotional proficiency will equip students to succeed in the evolving …
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, Unless You Have an Accent
It’s super funny that Alexa can’t understand my mom — until we need Alexa to use the web, drive a car, and do pretty much anything else.
What’s Next for Education: 3 big mindset shifts for education
Angela Maiers wants us all to know that we matter. The author, speaker, and education thought leader is leading an entire movement—Choose 2 Matter—intended to do just that. In this installment of “What’s Next for Education,” three mindset shifts …
Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science
Google Scholar’s coverage of high-quality publications is more comprehensive in many areas, including in the social sciences and humanities, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and non-English language publications.
Presentation of the Week: Intro to Open Source Hardware (OSHW)
What we learn before we’re born
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Best Practices for Improving Online Courses Using Student Feedback
To create successively improved iterations of a course, you need know what’s missing or lacking from the current version. The best method for doing this is to solicit student feedback from past courses, and then use that feedback to …
Google Classroom: Now open to even more learners
Google just announced that they are opening up Google Classroom to users without G Suite for Education accounts. You could only use Classroom with people from your own school so far, but from now on schools will be allowed to …
Microlearning: What It Is Not and What It Should Be
Microlearning may not be an optimal solution for complex tasks in workplace learning, but its nature seems well aligned with learner-centered models such as personal learning plans and professional development interests. Finally, like most learning strategies, microlearning fits well …
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
Here’s a message from the web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to ensure it fulfils his vision of an equalising platform that benefits all of humanity.
Microsoft’s first-ever desktop PC blows away the Mac
It’s tempting to compare the Surface Studio to Apple’s iMac all-in-one PCs. They do share a certain design sensibility. But, in my opinion, the Surface Studio is so much more.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-studio-review-2017-3…
Updated Differentiation with Google Forms!
One of my favorite features allows us to differentiate a form for students, meaning we can send students to different questions and pages of information based on how they answer each question.
http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/shut-the-front-door-digital-differentiation-with-google-forms/…