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Most students take a laptop with them to lectures. But are there times when they might be better off taking a pad and pen?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191122-when-the-best-way-to-take-notes-is-by-hand…

This is an artificial intelligence that reviews your source code and mades recommendations (no doubt also gathering statistics as it scans). “It helps you find the most expensive lines of code that hurt application performance and keep you up all …

We all have different needs and preferences when it comes to consuming the media in our lives. Our students are the same. Some need webpages read aloud, some need different color schemes or fonts, and others need captions enabled on …

There is a vast pedagogical literature spelling out the benefits of student engagement and active participation. My aim was to adopt some form of active learning to enhance my traditional lectures, and to improve my students’ class experience.  

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/implementing-active-learning-and-student-centered-pedagogy-in-large-classes/

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You’re trying to purchase an item or log into an account. You enter your credentials, but before you proceed, you need to prove that you’re a human being. Tick the box marked “I’m not a robot”. You can see a …

This is a potential roadmap (among many others)… a guide to getting fit to learn how to learn in (only a few weeks away from) the third decade of the 21st century and to teach and educate children who will …

Multi.link is a new service that makes it easy to share all of your social media profiles, websites you own, videos you produce, and pictures on one simple page. 

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/12/multilink-convenient-way-to-share-all.html…

As educators, we use a variety of resources in our classroom to enhance a lesson. Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have …

Here is a list of some useful iPad apps students can use to unleash their creative thinking and engage in hands-on learning activities. The apps, curated from iTunes App Store’s collection called ‘Explore Your Creativity’, will enable students to create …

While critical commentators are beginning to question the pedagogical limitations of facially driven learning, other this article contends that school-based facial recognition presents a number of other social challenges and concerns that merit specific attention. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2020.1686014…

A digital hall-pass app that tracks bathroom trips is the latest school software to raise privacy concerns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/29/school-apps-track-students-classroom-bathroom-parents-are-struggling-keep-up/?arc404=true…

With the goal of providing students with a new way to engage with learning through storytelling, Google Earth has unveiled a new set of new tools that enable maps to be customized and organized into visual narratives.

https://edscoop.com/google-earth-new-creation-tool-students-storytelling-maps/…

Fed up with Google’s privacy misadventures and random service closures? These websites are on a mission to help you ditch Google forever and find great alternatives to every product and service.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/learn-remove-google-life-forever-5-tools/…