CamScanner is an excellent document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and …
How to be “Team Human” in the digital future
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Presentation of the Week: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education
How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?
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Florida School Tests AI as Virtual Tutor for Online Course
The university has begun a pilot with Cognii, an education technology company that uses natural language processing to interact with the student as he or she learns a particular topic, gets assessed on comprehension and receives coaching to master the …
6 Good Visual White-boarding Apps for Teachers and Students
Visual whiteboarding is a powerful technique to integrate in your instructional methodology. It basically consists of representing ideas in a visually interactive way using drawings, shapes, sketches, charts, diagrams and many more.Below are some of our favourite titles to recommend …
Artificial intelligence will be part of the college curriculum
MIT President Rafael Reif talks to Gerry Baker of “Wall Street at Large” about how major universities are preparing students for how advances in artificial intelligence will impact the workforce of the future.
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5996490901001/#sp=show-clips…
Digitally tracking student behaviour in the classroom encourages compliance, not learning
ClassDojo is one of the most popular classroom communication apps in the world. But new research looks beneath ClassDojo’s friendly exterior to carefully consider the implications of tracking student data on discipline and behaviour.
Some reflections on the results of the 2018 national survey of online learning
The public report of the 2018 national survey of online and distance learning in Canadian universities and colleges is now available in English and French for free download.
An Ancient Egyptian Homework Assignment from 1800 Years Ago: Some Things Are Truly Timeless
The tablet’s surface preserves “a two-part lesson in Greek that provides a snapshot of daily life for a pupil attending primary school in Egypt about 1,800 years ago.” Its lines, “copied by this long-ago student were not just for practicing …
Different Types of Learning Theories – Understanding the Basics
Before jumping into the design of a learning solution, it is important to understand the connection between the different types of learning theories with other aspects of the learning process such as learning styles and educational technologies.
https://mylove4learning.com/different-types-of-learning-theories-understanding-the-basics/…
This Is How to Digitize Your Documents Using Google Drive App
Google’s advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows Drive users to easily convert text in images and PDF documents into searchable documents with the ability to easily edit and save editions. Check out this article to learn more about how …
Top 10 IT Issues, 2019: The Student Genome Project
The cleverly titled focus of this article is on how to ‘sequence’ educational data. “In 2019 we are focused on organizing, standardizing, and safeguarding data,” writes Susan Grajek, “so that we can use it to address our most pressing priority: …
International Education Technology Conferences 2019
The EdSurge International Education Technology Conferences calendar PDF lists the dates and locations of more than 50 edtech conferences and events happening outside the U.S. in 2019, relevant to K-12 and higher education, that have got our attention.
https://go.edsurge.com/International-Educational-Technology-Conferences-Calendar-2019.html…
Who will become the Uber of packaged elearning content?
According to this industry report, 29% of the total elearning market will be packaged or off the shelf elearning content — something I predict will grow as we get closer to 2023.
https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/features/who-will-become-uber-packaged-elearning-content…