Presentation of the Week: Curriculum analytics: Using data from student learning analytics
Scaling Active Learning
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 …
Rethink ED: 3 Hallmarks of the Future of Learning
This article captures three meta-aspects of future learning that seem right: equity, student-centered learning, and real-world learning. Transforming that set of expectations into pedagogy and infrastructure is another matter, however.
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/09/rethink-ed-3-hallmarks-of-the-future-of-learning…
7 Free PowerPoint Alternatives for Your Presentation Needs
Here are some free PowerPoint alternatives. None of them are quite as good, but many of them are good enough for most users—especially if you aren’t in a business setting. Here are the best free alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-free-powerpoint-alternatives-presentation-needs/…
How to Create a Transcript of Any YouTube Video
In the following video you can see how to use SnackVids to create a searchable transcript of videos that you find on YouTube. As you’ll see in the video, the transcript is not only searchable but all of the keywords …
Presentation of the Week: Edtech startups competition live pitches
My Top 5 Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students (Non-Google Edition)
Here are my top five non-Google tools for social studies teachers and students.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/09/my-top-5-tools-for-social-studies.html…