I’ve named my list ‘personal learning tools’ because I think of learning as an activity that blends my own activities as a ‘student’ with those as a ‘teacher’. It’s a practice that thinks of learning as immersive and ongoing; I …
Five Features of Microsoft Teams to Note
Five interesting things to pay attention to on Microsoft Teams.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/five-features-of-microsoft-teams-to-note.html…
Pixel is a powerful, portal, personal pocketful of AI
Pixel is a little sandbox for consumer AI, so gives us insights into the way technology is moving and therefore the way online learning will move.
https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/pixel-is-powerful-portal-personal.html…
Canada Learning Code Launches K-12 Computer Science Education Framework
Canada Learning Code, a non-profit organization that promotes digital literacy education, has unveiled a new national computer science education framework designed to serve students from kindergarten to Grade 12.
https://betakit.com/canada-learning-code-launches-k-12-computer-science-education-framework/…
Art in the age of machine intelligence
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Presentation of the Week: Paper or Screen Reading?
Here’s what the future of classrooms looks like
From hologram professors to virtual field trips to the Amazon, here are a few of the trends that could shape the classroom of the future.
https://thenextweb.com/growth-quarters/2020/08/10/heres-what-the-future-of-classrooms-looks-like/…
10 quick and easy tools to boost your EdTech confidence
Here are 11 easy-to-use and worthwhile EdTech tools that can be integrated seamlessly into your lessons for a host of different purposes.
https://www.tes.com/news/ed-tech-tools-tips-lessons-boost-technology-lockdown…
Zoom from Teacher and Student Perspectives
I have always found it helpful to look at tools from the students’ perspectives as well as my teacher perspective. Doing that helps me better understand how students will use the tools and better prepares me to help them troubleshoot …
The NSA’s Tips to Keep Your Phone From Tracking You
These steps all involve some degree of convenience trade-off, so consider your comfort level and risk profile and adjust accordingly. A lot of it, though, you can implement with minimal interruption to your regularly scheduled smartphone usage.
https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-tips-smartphone-data-canon-ransomware-twitter-bug-security-news…
Google Lens’ new ‘Homework’ filter will solve math problems from a photo
You’ll be able to take photos of math problems to bring up step-by-step solutions and concept explainers.
https://www.engadget.com/google-lens-socratic-math-problems-102931355.html…
Microsoft Teams Declares Battle With Zoom With These Stellar New Features
Microsoft Teams has already launched a bunch of stunning new features over the last few months as it looks to challenge Zoom in the video conferencing market. This week, Teams has launched some previously announced features as part of a …
Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection
This paper reports on a collaborative test of 15 web-based text-matching systems that can be used when plagiarism is suspected. The sobering results show that although some systems can indeed help identify some plagiarized content, they clearly do not find …
A New Pedagogy is Emerging… and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor
While some students returned to campus and in-person learning, “back to something resembling normal” may not occur until some point in 2021 or later, but not before. Faculty are exploring what online teaching reality means for them. What is the …
These 3 Practices by Bill Gates Will Change How You Read
Recently, I listened to Bill Gates sharing his free, yet priceless lessons on how he reads books. Here are his top three reading practices and how to apply them.
https://medium.com/the-ascent/these-3-practices-by-bill-gates-will-change-how-you-read-15f3c574bef2…