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Implementing Active Learning and Student-Centered Pedagogy in Large Classes
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.
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How Do CAPTCHAs Work and Why Are They So Difficult?
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 …
Fit2Learn: Learning How to Learn
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 – A Convenient Way to Share All Your Profiles
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…
Can You Show Netflix in Class? Copyright for Teachers Made Simple
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 …
Creativity Apps to Use with Your Students
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 …
Facial recognition technology in schools: critical questions and concerns
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…
School apps track students from classroom to bathroom, and parents are struggling to keep up
A digital hall-pass app that tracks bathroom trips is the latest school software to raise privacy concerns.
Google Earth’s creation tools help students tell stories with maps
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/…
Learn How to Remove Google From Your Life Forever With These 5 Tools
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/…
Presentation of the Week: Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care
How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit
More needs to be done to support teaching online in Canada
79% of institutions reported inadequate training for faculty as one of the main barriers to online learning, up from earlier years; the issue of faculty support and training for teaching online is significant and needs to be addressed in the …
The 100 Best Inventions of 2019 selected by TIME
100 inventions making the world better, smarter and even a little bit more fun.