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Whether we like it or not, digital devices are everywhere. Some of us can barely put them down, even when we’re with cherished family and friends.

https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/centers-and-initiatives/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/about-hmni/archive-brain-0…

Wide Open School (WOS) is a platform developed by the leading non-profit for kids and families Common Sense media. WOS provides access to a wide range of resources designed specifically to help enhance the quality of distance learning. The work …

The Government of New Brunswick is trying to reach young people with posts and ads on social media. But some experts say the message might not be getting across.

https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5887866

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A new breed of web-based virtual environments offering proximity chat (also called spatial chat) mimic the possibility of speaking or collaborating with one or more peers while remaining in the same virtual space as the entire class group.

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/articles/bringing-more-spontaneous-interaction-to-the-virtual-classroom-with-proximity-chat…

Online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) are 2 collaborative strategies that can help students make meaning of the course content and relate to it in an authentic way. For this article I spoke with Patti Kingsmill to find an …

Google’s image recognition technology is already capable of so much, but the most useful feature is real-time language translation using your smartphone. Now the Google Lens app is capable of performing translations without need of an internet connection.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-lens-now-translates-offline…

People have “lost sight” of how the coronavirus pandemic has “changed learning for the better”, the education secretary has said. While some consequences of remote learning have been “challenging to say the least”, others have actually been “unqualified success”, according …

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to take a fresh look at our examination system and its shortcomings, along with the changing student-teacher dynamics.

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/how-covid-19-has-changed-the-way-we-look-at-exams-1762593-2021-01-25…

Anyone putting together an learning analytics strategy is arbitrarily framing a box, more or less, in which learning happens. Only through the pinholes of such a theoretical box can learning be observed. Then, only by putting those observations together can …

Despite being its ram hogging nature, Google Chrome is still the world’s most popular browser. In this article, we are listing some of the useful Google Chrome extensions you should install.

https://techlog360.com/useful-google-chrome-extensions…

See how to use the new presenter view in Microsoft Teams Meetings. The new presenter view is similar to the presenter view you’re probably used to seeing in PowerPoint. The difference is that in Microsoft Teams Meetings presenter view you …

Organizations everywhere are becoming more open—and more innovative, agile, and engaged as a result. But can we say the same of our educational organizations?

https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/educators-guide…

Covid-19 has demanded not just more emotional and physical energy from educators, but also more of their cash, for education to function.

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-im-one-of-the-professors-spending-thousands-of-dollars-to-teach-from-home/…

Designing courses to be inclusive for students with differing needs can be puzzling for teachers. Patrick Savard from Champlain Saint Lawrence is using inclusive design in his Pre-University Long Fiction class, allowing students to choose the novels they study and …

Both Microsoft Teams or Zoom have merits and drawbacks. Which one is worth using for video meetings and collaboration?

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-teams-vs-zoom-video-meetings/…