Hypersay is a great tool for making presentations both interactive, multimedia and digital. All you have to do is upload your existing presentations (PDF, PPT or Google Slides) to the platform and then you can start to add interactions such …
AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
As AI gets better at performing routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only stressful ones will be left. The work experience could suffer.
My Favorite Source for High Quality, Copyright-Free Images and Videos
Students and teachers need good sources of copyright-free images. I’ve shared other sites and strategies before, but Pixabay is hands-down my favorite site for copyright-free images and video. What sets Pixabay apart is quality. The images and videos are of …
Digital natives: where is the evidence?
This paper will critique and show new evidence against this conception of the digital native as based purely on generational differences.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27739/1/Digital_natives_%28LSERO%29.pdf…
Loop – A Nice System for Gathering Feedback from Students
There is no shortage of online tools for gathering feedback from students. Loop lets you create an online classroom to post questions for your students to respond to with emojis, with words, or by selecting an answer choice. You can …
10 Tools for Developing Students’ Listening Skills
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 …