As educators today, it’s no longer about simply planning instruction with our students in mind. We also have to consider how changing technology trends and important societal issues will impact our students both now and beyond high school. We need …
How AI is Learning to Play with Words
Imagine you go to a bookstore, and you notice and exciting cover. You pick the book, read the summary at the back, and the rave reviews. The plot seems intriguing enough, but when you check for the writer, it says …
The 12 Best How-To Sites That Everyone Should Bookmark
If you need some help with life’s little chores, the internet is full of guidance. But which sites should you head to when you need some advice? Here are 12 how-to sites that everyone needs to have saved in their …
Turn screen time into learning time
Screen time gets more bad press than a Hollywood star in rehab. But the fact is, not all screen time is the same. Screen time is like food: Some of it’s bad for you and some of it’s good for …
How AI could become an extension of your mind
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Presentation of the Week: Data in Education: Panacea or Problem
Integrating Online Curation and Social Annotation into Courses
Online Curation is recognized as a necessary life-long skill for managing information overload. It involves purposefully collecting online content on a given topic, selecting and organizing the most relevant or interesting information, summarizing its significance for the collection, and sharing …
Is this the right way to use machine learning in education?
Graham Attwell points to ‘Predicting Employment through Machine Learning‘ by Linsey S. Hugo and comments that it “confirms some of my worries about the use of machine learning in education.” The idea is that student records could be used to …
StayFocusd: a productivity extension for Google Chrome
This extension helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of …
Robotics and coding now an option in the Saskatchewan curriculum
Across Saskatchewan, students from Grades 7 to 12 may now see robotics and coding become part of their practical and applied arts classes, due to the province’s launch of a new course curriculum.
List of free and amazing online courses from top universities
Open Culture and Class Central compiled a list of thousands of enticing free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and lectures from top-shelf educators at great universities like MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/list-of-free-and-amazing-onlin.html…
Researchers use AI to track students’ performance in online courses
What insights might be gleaned from an education platform that’s entirely online? Plenty. In a newly published paper on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a trio of scientists at the University of Copenhagen investigated an AI model that ingested data from …
Draw.io is a free Flowchart and diagram creation software for Windows, Linux, macOS and your browser
Flowcharts are incredibly useful diagrams to explain process flows. But how do you make them using a computer? Microsoft Office or Libre Office can be used to create flowcharts. But an application like Draw.io that specializes in drawing diagrams can …
Meet the edtech startup that wants to make learning fun by rewarding students who study
Started by Persainjit Singh, Prakash Gupta, and Swati Gupta in 2017, Gurugram-based Extraclass is a social online learning platform that curates content for students, parents, and teachers.
https://yourstory.com/2019/09/edtech-startup-extraclass-gurugram-online-platform-rewards…
A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created
The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-successful-artificial-memory-has-been-created…