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What makes a good instructional video? What does the research say, and how can it help us think about organising the content of our videos?

https://teachthinkblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/what-makes-a-good-instructional-video/…

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 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 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, 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/…

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/…

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…

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 …

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…

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 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 …

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 …

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 …