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Secrets of How We Learn explores the way our experiences shape our minds and bodies as we make the journey from the most helpless to the most sophisticated organism on earth.  It combines cutting edge science and technology with pioneering …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a very popular topic in recent years, with ongoing questions as to how it can be used to enhance learning opportunities and outcomes. In order to find out more, Melissa Bond and Olaf Zawacki-Richter recently …

Looking for some good websites that provide curated educational documentaries? The collection below features some of our favourite options. These are platforms where you can get access to a plethora of documentaries spanning different topics and subject areas.  

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/02/some-good-platforms-for-educational.html

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Psychologists have uncovered reasons why students put off important work. But there are a few simple things teachers can do to keep students on track.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-reasons-students-procrastinate-and-how-help-them-stop…

Cloud Stop Motion is a browser-based tool for creating short stop motion videos.  Cloud Stop Motion could be a great tool for students to use to create short videos to animate stories they’ve written by using toys or clay models. …

On January 29th, 2020, Vanier College held a launch event for their Teacher’s Innovation and Exploration Kit (TIEK) which allows teachers to try Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR) and other recent technologies to explore their pedagogical …

Headliner is a browser-based video editor. It has more editing features than Adobe Spark but not quite as many as WeVideo. Headliner provides its “pro” version for free to schools. The pro version removes all watermarks. Finished videos can be …

‘Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.’

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agamm/the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia-is-written-almost-entirely-by-one-bot…

Focusing less on the slides and more on student discussion fosters deeper engagement.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reducing-dependence-slides…

There’s a new application of AI in education, and educators aren’t going to like it. A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based …

One of the big questions we face is, how can we help ensure effective edtech happens more often? The key lies in helping educators to look at the available evidence and make careful decisions. In many cases, that’s easier said …

Who uses social media? When did the rise of social media start and what are the largest sites today? Here we answer these and other key questions to understand social media use around the world. We begin with an outline …