These are rock-solid and trusted online edtech blogs that continue to be sources of inspiration for us. You’ll find organizations dedicated to talking about technology, as well as teachers from the trenches who are actually doing it.
How Screen Addiction Is Damaging Kids’ Brains
A new book out on August 9 called Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, one of the country’s top addiction experts, details how compulsive technology usage and reliance on screens can neurologically …
12 sci-fi technologies already changing the way we live
What cutting-edge technology can we expect to experience in our lives in the near future, and what will be developed next? To find out, I asked a group of entrepreneurs the following question: What’s the most futuristic technology we …
New Book Seeks To Inspire Teachers To Innovate In The Classroom
The new book “The ABCs of How We Learn” gives 26 approaches that can help students learn. The book is based on a course given at Stanford University.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/05/abcs-learning-theories-book…
The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t
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Presentation of the Week: The Role of Incremental and Transformative Change in Future Prediction
Artificial Intelligence And Big Data Are Transforming Online Learning
The robots are coming for education — tech will help instructors enhance the learning experience.
30 technologies ushering in the future for education
The explosion of live, on-demand video services on campuses right now is really exciting because it’s moving past the sports events to innovative areas we never even thought of, like pop-up lectures and different aspects of online learning. Here …
What is R? R Explained in less than Two Minutes
R is a computer programming language which is particularly well suited to handling and sorting the large datasets associated with Big Data projects.
Handy, Overlooked YouTube Features
YouTube offers a bunch of handy editing tools that often go overlooked by users. One of those is the option to rotate videos that have been shot in vertical mode when they should have been shot horizontally. Another great …
Horizon Report App Makes Higher Ed Trend Data More Accessible
The New Media Consortium’s mobile app puts research findings at users’ fingertips.
How predictive analytics discovers a data breach before it happens
What if we could stay ahead of threat actors and predict their next attack before they take their first destructive step? It might sound like a crazy idea out of Spielberg’s Minority Report,but thanks to the power of predictive …
8 ways to prevent cheating in the digital age
The advent of the digital age has made plagiarism and stealing answers even easier. Some teachers will tell you that trying to prevent cheating is an exercise in futility. While it’s true that you can’t police all students at …
How to Apply a Student-Centered Approach to the E-Learning Environment [Interview]
Numerous researches show the effectiveness of learner-centered education with a focus shift from a teacher to a learner. To help you to apply a student-centered approach in the distant learning environment and highlight typical obstacles you can face trying …
Over 35 LMS, SIS and gradebook partners are now working with OneNote Class Notebook
Since Microsoft launched the original OneNote Class Notebook add-in for assignment and grade integration, with Learning Management Systems (LMS), Student Information Systems (SIS) and gradebooks, we’ve had many excited teachers and schools try it out.