Glide is a service that anyone can use to create a mobile app without doing any coding. Glide lets you take one of your Google Sheets and have the information become a mobile app. It’s easy to use and you …
Fishbowl – A New Professional Network for Teachers
Fishbowl is a professional networking service for professionals in many fields including education. Fishbowl features dedicated communities for discussions about the issues that matter most to them. Fishbowl makes you verify your identity, but lets you post questions and responses …
Teacher Qualifications Emerge as Major Predictor of Student Achievement in New Report
The new report, California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds, finds that the proportion of teachers holding substandard credentials—such as emergency permits, waivers and intern credentials—is significantly and negatively associated with student achievement for all students.
https://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2019/05/teacher-qualifications-emerge-as-major.html…
DeepMind’s superhuman AI is rewriting how we play chess
AlphaZero doesn’t play chess like a machine – it plays it like a human grandmaster, but better.
Amazing Google AI Speaks Another Language In Your Voice
It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed Translatotron to do something other systems can’t: retain the original speaker’s voice in the translated audio. In other words, the tech could make it …
Michio Kaku on The Future of Humanity
Presentation of the Week: How Learning Analytics can Support Teaching and Learning
We studied what 10,000 people love online. The results would make Freud blush
Two years ago, I co-founded a company that collects data on the kinds of content people like and dislike on the internet. We’ve analyzed the content that over 10,000 people around the world loved online–with their permission. Take a look …
7 Great iPad Apps to Virtually Explore World Museums
In today’s post we are sharing with you a collection of some good apps you can use to take your students on virtual trips to international museums. Students will get to explore various works of fine arts, learn about other …
A Comprehensive Hands-on Guide to Transfer Learning with Real-World Applications in Deep Learning
The article talks about the concept of ‘transfer learning’ in artificial intelligence today. This is not ‘knowledge transfer’ from one person to another. Rather, the idea is to teach an AI to apply knowledge it learning in one domain to …
Lenovo unveils the world’s first ‘foldable PC’ and I’m actually kinda excited
Lenovo showed off its upcoming foldable PC at its Accelerate conference. The device will fall under its premium Thinkpad X1 line, and will launch next year. It will have a 13.3-inch 2K OLED display made in partnership with LG, and …
Classroom in a Pocket? Creating a Mobile eLearning Environment
eLearning has transformed modern education. Over the last fifteen years, education has gone from paper to platform and app-based, with students and teachers learning together in remarkable new ways.
https://anadea.info/blog/creating-a-mobile-elearning-environment…
How AI Can Support Teachers, Not Replace Them
The success of AI in education will depend on predictive modeling that considers the human aspect of the equation. The teacher, rather than being replaced by technology, can be aided by AI. By freeing up time, teachers can better concentrate …
Here Is A Handy Tool to Provide Students with Different Types of Feedback
Qwiqr is another excellent web tool you can use to provide students with individual feedback using QR technology. It’s particularly ideal for formative assessment allowing you to attend to students individualized needs and maximize their learning.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/05/here-is-handy-tool-to-provide-students.html…
Word’s new AI editor will improve your writing
If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you’ll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company just announced, Word will soon get a new feature called “Ideas” that will offer writers all kinds of help with their …