It offers a mobile app (currently Android, with iOS to follow soon) that promises to monitor an array of online accounts for suspicious login or attempted login activity.
A Wonderful App for Remotely Controlling Your Presentations
Slides from de Mobo is a very good app that allows you to remotely control your presentations using your iOS or Android device. Slides works best with presentations on Google Drive, Prezi, Slideshare, Scribd, Speakerdeck and Issuu. To be …
Discover Brain Based Learning And How To Use It In Your Classroom
Brain based learning is an innovative technique of teaching students lessons. The principles are based on scientific research about the connection of the brain’s ability to absorb more information by applying non-traditional techniques.
http://topeducationboard.com/discover-brain-based-learning-and-how-to-use-it-in-your-classroom/…
Turnitin faces new questions about efficacy of plagiarism detection software
Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it.
How I use Evernote to organize my life
Imagine a tool that can clip websites, track your random thoughts, record your daughter’s university class schedule (and tuition receipts) and pull up a recipe for Thai Crunch Salad with Peanut Dressing at 5:30PM when you have 20 minutes …
Can Teachers Author Their Own Textbooks on the Fly?
What happens when a school throws out the textbooks and tells teachers that they are going to become authors themselves by creating curriculum in real time as the semester progresses? That’s what the String Theory School, a charter school …
New Teachers: Technology-Integration Basics
Find tips, strategies, tools, and other resources to help new teachers successfully integrate technology to facilitate educational objectives in the classroom.
http://www.edutopia.org/article/new-teachers-technology-integration-resources…
What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
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Presentation of the Week: Pedagogy and the Internet
Here’s the ultimate software list for PC fanatics
A great list of PC software divided in categories.
15 Characteristics of a 21st-Century Teacher
Teaching in the 21-century is an altogether different phenomenon; never before could learning be happening the way it is now — everywhere, all the time, on any possible topic, supporting any possible learning style or preference. But what does …
A University’s Success with Flipped Learning Began by Phasing Out
Leaders at the University of Adelaide sees the future in online learning, not stand-and-deliver instruction.
How to install a custom dictionary on your iPad
While using your iPad there are occasions when, while reading or composing an email or text, you might have the inclination to look up the meaning and/or spelling of an unfamiliar word. If you’re never previously attempted to do …
Can neuroscience solve the mystery of how students learn?
Educational neuroscience burst onto the scene with the hope of explaining how we learn. But the jury is still out on whether it’s useful for classroom practice.
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jul/12/neuroscience-solve-mystery-how-students-learn…
What Happens When Teens Try to Disconnect From Tech For Three Days
It was almost a wake-up call for how dependent we are on .
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/06/turned-off-how-teens-respond-to-a-no-tech-challenge/…