For many students listening is the hardest of the four skills to master. Unlike reading, listening happens in real time and it can be hard to control the speed of the information coming at them. There are now a great …
What Makes a Great Teacher: Pedagogy or Personality?
Of course, a teacher’s passion, charisma, warmth, and humor influence the way students experience a class. But teachers aren’t really “born” knowing how to connect and inspire children in a classroom setting. Instead, they must grow these capacities by continually …
Jumping from one resource to another: how do students navigate learning networks?
This paper presents a model showing how students form connections to different kinds of resources, along with the criteria they use to decide on which resource to choose. The findings were derived by conducting retrospective think-aloud sessions with nine participants …
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
On TikTok everything revolves around “sounds”. Sounds are little clips of audio, usually between 15 and 60 seconds long, which can range from music to tv shows to clips of conversations, that are overlaid on top of your TikTok video. …
Discovering Technopedagogical Projects of Colleges Funded Under the Digital Action Plan
The implementation of the Digital Action Plan (DAP) in education and higher education has been an opportunity for several institutions in the college network to develop innovative projects to support the integration of digital technology into educational practices. In a …
Art that explores time and memory
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Presentation of the Week: Curriculum analytics: Using data from student learning analytics
Scaling Active Learning
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Engage Your Students Through the Movies and TV Shows They Watch
Video clips from popular shows and movies provide a great way to capture the attention of students. ClassHook is a site that allows teachers to search for clips from popular TV shows and movies that are related to their curriculum. …
New Features in iPadOS for Schools
Apple’s latest software release saw a small divergence for iPhone and iPad. Although they both run a version of iOS, the iPad variation is now called iPadOS. This is because of the increasing number of iOS features that only work …
Tony Bate’s new book chapter on Artificial Intelligence
This chapter looks at the role and potential application of artificial intelligence in learning. “There are two somewhat different goals for the general use of artificial intelligence,” he writes. “The first is to increase the efficiency of a system or …
Gmail Search Tips for Teachers and Students
Gmail, like other Google products, provides a wide variety of powerful features most of which are not readily accessible. You need to dig a little deeper into its settings to discover all the functionalities you might have recourse to while …
Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019
The Top Tools for Learning 2019 list was compiled by Jane Hart from the results of the 13th Annual Learning Tools Survey. Below you will find a table listing the top 200 tools as well as their ranking on 3 …
Higher Education Institutions in Asia Pacific Stand to Double the Rate of Innovation with Artificial Intelligence
With student outcomes being a key performance metric for higher education institutes, many are turning to leverage data to glean insights and drive improved outcomes. “For many institutions, student performance has a direct impact on rankings. AI can be a …
The Practical Ed Tech Handbook
This guide is designed to provide you with an overview of a selection of free web tools,
websites, and mobile apps that have utility in nearly every K-12 classroom. In each section you will find more than one tool that …