Technology has the power to transform how people learn – but walk into some classrooms and you could be forgiven for thinking you were entering a time warp.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30814302
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Audible Provides Over 15,000 Audiobooks for your iOS and Android Devices
Audible is an excellent website that provides digital downloads of audiobooks and other audio content. These audiobooks cover a wide variety of categories from mysteries to romance. You can use the search functionality of Audible to search for books or …
Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower …
Acclaim: A Good Tool to Create Instructional Videos that Embed Comments and Annotations
Acclaim is a web platform for education which facilitates discussion around video content. It allows students and professors to share questions, notes, and feedback by inserting time-specific comments that link to moments in each video.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/01/acclaim-good-tool-to-create.html
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What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’?
The idea of personalized learning is seductive – it implies moving away from the industrialized form of education that pumps out cookie-cutter students with the same knowledge and skills. After decades of this approach, it is clear that all children …
Presentation of the Week: Mission Possible: Strategies & Resources for Meaningful Technology Integration
How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win
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Microsoft HoloLens: A Sensational Vision of the PC’s Future
HoloLens is a significantly different experience from using Glass. Whereas Google’s system mostly keeps the digital images out of your field of vision and is thus more suited to be used in public, the HoloLens immerses you more deeply in …
Are we getting closer to having a real universal translator?
We asked Roland Kuhn, the Statistical Machine Translation lead at the National Research Council Canada, to weigh in on the future of machine translation and speech recognition.
Best EdTech Websites of 2014
Because it was just too hard to pick only 10, here are 14 fantastic edtech websites we reviewed this year. How about that — 14 for 2014!
https://www.graphite.org/blog/best-edtech-websites-of-2014
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Gaming in Education: Gamification?
Gamifying the classroom might be a way to improve engagement, productivity and enthusiasm for what the teacher has to say?
http://www.theedublogger.com/2015/01/20/gaming-in-education-gamification/
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Amazon launches Kindle Textbook Creator to help schools turn PDFs into digital books
Amazon has unveiled a new program designed to help educational establishments and authors produce ebooks for students.
New Microsoft Office 365 open source integration with Moodle transforms education technology
The integration brings a more productive experience to teachers and students by harmonizing login credentials, calendar management and course content creation, in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users.
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What is Google Classroom? (video)
If you’ve been wondering what Google Classroom is (or is NOT), this video from Amy Mayer is for you! Should you get ready for implementation? Can you replace your current system with Classroom? This video will help you answer those …
Google Drive: Managing Files in Multiple Folders
The new Google Drive has a slightly different interface. Rather than single clicking to open a file, you double click. Single click now allows you to select a file and utilize a toolbar or keyboard shortcuts to do things to …