JoeZoo is a free Google Docs Add-on that teachers can use to add voice and text comments to a students’ paper. But that alone is not what makes it great. What makes JoeZoo stand out from the crowd is the …
Learning Together, Learning on Their Own
What if schools could offer teachers both shared professional learning experiences and personalized learning opportunities?
Edji – A Great Tool for Literacy and Critical Thinking
Edji is a unique, collaborative annotation tool that works on any device. Students and teachers can highlight portions of text and leave either emoji comments or text comments. They can also place a hotspot on a picture and leave a …
The case for a decentralized internet
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Presentation of the Week: Designing Learning Environments for a Digital Age
How to Create Captioned Flipped Video Lessons
Here’s the outline of how you can use Google Slides and screencasting to create a captioned flipped lesson.
https://practicaledtech.com/2018/11/04/how-to-create-captioned-flipped-video-lessons/…
Students to be taught by ‘holograms’ at Imperial College London
Business students at Imperial College London are set to be offered lectures led by “holographic professors” in a world first. The holograms are able to engage with students in real-time, responding to reactions and taking questions via a camera link …
How Smart Class Technology is Benefiting Education Sector
It is not just about sharing information but also creating a better online presentation by avoiding the need to write manually.
4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Machine learning algorithms do precisely what they are taught to do and are only as good as their mathematical construction and the data they are trained on. Algorithms that are biased will end up doing things that reflect that bias. …
Dropbox’s new software extensions let you easily edit files on the web
Dropbox has a new feature it hopes will make getting work done from within its cloud storage product even easier. Called Extensions, these third-party software plug-ins will let you perform basic tasks you’d normally need to launch a separate app …
A new tool to help teachers as digital learning designers
The Learning Designer helps teachers plan a sequence of learning and teaching activities to engage their students both in and beyond the classroom.
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/a-new-tool-to-help-teachers-as-digital-learning-designers…
Five Places to Find Free Music and Sounds for Multimedia Projects
From adding music to a slideshow to adding sound effects to videos to bumper music for podcasts, there are plenty of classroom projects that require free audio files. If you find yourself or your students in need of some free …
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) is a living repository of collective knowledge, written to equip all those who want to publish open textbooks with the resources they need.
https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/…
The Impact of VR on Student Education
Virtual Reality–VR–is the 2018 buzzword among students, teachers, and even parents. And rightfully deserved, VR has the ability to recreate so many of the rules that used to shape education. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, shares her opinion …
CUNY Team Launches Open Digital Platform for Learning and Collaboration
Built using the WordPress publishing platform, with BuddyPress for social networking, it is designed to simplify the process of creating commons spaces where members can discuss issues, collaborate, and share their work. CBOX is being used by academic institutions, scholarly …