A centuries-old challenge for teachers has been how to adapt learning materials and presentations to meet the varied backgrounds and abilities of students. Emerging technologies, Ray Schroeder writes, can help meet students where they are and customize learning for them.…
Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave
A cryptocurrency exchange in Canada has lost control of at least $137 million of its customers’ assets following the sudden death of its founder, who was the only person known to have access to the offline wallet that stored the …
IBM researchers predict 5 innovations will change our lives in 5 years
IBM Research has a long history of inventing the future, so the big tech company’s researchers take their predictions seriously. Today they are revealing their annual “5 in 5” predictions, which detail five innovations that will change our lives in …
Study Finds No Difference in VR Learning Outcomes Compared to Other Modes
Can enthusiasm for virtual reality be converted into learning gains? That was the topic of a research project at Cornell University, which recently pitted VR against hands-on and computer-based activities. The bottom line: Researchers found students learned equally well in …
Six Online Whiteboard Drawing Tools
Here’s an updated list of online whiteboard tools that you and your students can use for free.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/02/six-online-whiteboard-drawing-tools.htm…
Here Is A Handy Scanning App for Teachers and Students
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 …