Category: Edtech

It may sound like something from a science-fiction film, but a Canadian inventor believes he has made a device that could eventually allow patients to test for infections and illnesses from home. The cube operates as a miniature DNA …

“I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer, so it’s theoretically possible to copy the brain onto a computer and so provide a form of life after death” – Stephen Hawking

http://3tags.org/article/mind-transfer-to-a-computer-and-immortality-may-be-within-reach…

At home and at work, dozens of wireless networks are streaming invisible radio waves through your space and body. (So are the phones, computers, Bluetooth speakers and other devices that connect to them.) It’s logical to wonder—and worry—about what …

Today we are just focusing on some Chrome extensions that will be very useful if you are a heavy Google Product user. With these extensions, managing Google products will be really easy.  

http://www.socialpositives.com/2016/10/top-10-chrome-extensions-for-heavy-google-product-users/…

Even if you’ve done your best to hide from Facebook, it probably has a huge dossier on you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-what-does-it-know-chrome-data-ads-marketing-information-spying-a7338101.html…

Raise.me is a platform that helps 9-12th grade students prepare for college by earning scholarships for their achievements in high school. Over 150 colleges and universities have partnered with Raise.me, and award micro-scholarships for both academics and extracurricular activities.…

The Why Files is a resource designed for students to learn about the science of stories in the news. The Why Files doesn’t cover every current events news story, just the stories that have connections to science concepts.  

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/10/the-why-files-explains-science-of-news.html…

Office 365 Education provides an easy to use framework for PLCs that was built on feedback received directly from teachers. PLCs help keeps everyone together, enabling educators to communicate and collaborate with their peers efficiently in one place. Let’s …

The Open University of Brazil (UAB), a consortium of over 100 public higher education institutions in Brazil, has just announced its open educational resources repository — eduCAPES, during the 9th meeting of UAB Coordinators in Brasília. The repository is …

YouTube Go, a data efficient YouTube app, has been announced at the Google for India keynote. The app includes smart offline feature and it designed to use a lesser amount of data while streaming videos. This will help the …

This framework is useful if you’re trying to make sense of how people learning together online. The idea of intellectual capital is what drives crowdsourced knowledge banks like Wikipedia, iTunesU, and even YouTube.

http://teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/framework-learning-digital-networks/…

Here are some highlights from the complete list of Free Online Courses. We’ve added a few unconventional/vintage courses in the mix just to keep things interesting.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/a-master-list-of-1200-free-courses-from-top-universities.html…

Windows PCs don’t have to slow down over time. Whether your PC has gradually become slower or it suddenly ground to a halt a few minutes ago, there could be quite a few reasons for that slowness.

http://www.howtogeek.com/228570/10-quick-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-windows-pc/…