Category: Edtech

Here is a great selection of some very good iPad apps to use with blind and visually impaired students. While some of the featured apps are free, others are are not. You may want to go through the collection …

Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether an information or service provided leads to positive, negative or neutral human feelings  or opinions.

https://simplified-analytics.blogspot.ca/2016/05/sentiment-analysis-in-age-of-digital.html…

Trend usually implies that something is short term, like a one-hit wonder on the radio, but when we talk about educational technology, these trends are here to not only stay, but grow. While it is hard to choose the …

We are facing unprecedented threats to the digital safety of our personal information. Here are nine tips to foil hackers, ransomware, online trackers, data brokers and other menaces.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-protect-your-digital-privacy-in-the-era-of-public-shaming…

Should you pay for all those features you’re never going to use, or should you find yourself a free alternative to Microsoft Office? You can use other great office software like LibreOffice and Google Docs, and save lots of …

Vocaroo.com is a website that allows you to record audio and share it in a BUNCH of different ways. It even houses the recordings for you, though not permanently. Think of the possibilities here!

http://www.thepaperlesstrail.com/2015/08/09/vocaroo-in-the-classroom/…

You can download YouTube video or any image, audio, video, software directly to your Google Drive. To do this you’d require a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive. This extension, developed by Google, allows users to save anything …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world. Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years — and the proliferation …

The NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 14th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to …

My story of using tools for student voice begins with listening to my students. I try to provide them with as much input as to how they will be educated as possible, and it’s no different when it comes …

This is a question thread on Quora which has just been answered by Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Khan predicts the rise of mastery-based learning, competency-based credentials, and alternative and clearer career paths.  

https://www.quora.com/How-will-education-change-in-the-next-10-years…

Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology.

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/01/25/the-growing-role-of-technology-in-personalized-learning/…

The current CC search tool is accessed by nearly 600,000 people every month — but we can do better. There is no “front door” to the commons, and the tools people need to curate, share, and remix works aren’t …