Gmail has announced the release of a new set of features and improvements to its Gmail on the web. These include a brand new look for your Gmail, sophisticated security measures, more integrations with G Suite apps, new ways to …
Presentation of the Week: Vision 2030: Redesigning Education for the Future
How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
Going Paperless Benefits Teachers, Students—and the Bottom Line
Today, the concept of a paperless classroom is more than just a trend. Schools across the country are now opting for apps and other software as a replacement for traditional pen and paper. And as technology improves, so do the …
You Can Take These 600 Online Courses for Free
You no longer need to be a Harvard student or Princeton grad to benefit from instruction at these exclusive institutions. You can access some of their most popular classes online via MOOCs.
https://lifehacker.com/you-can-take-these-600-online-courses-for-free-1830066444…
Why Millions of Teens Can’t Finish Their Homework
The push toward technology-focused education overlooks the students who lack the resources needed to complete their assignments.
Optimize Your Reading Experience with These Excellent Chrome Apps
These are extensions that will transform web pages into distraction-free and reader-friendly pages and provide you with an optimal reading experience online. You may want to check them out and see which ones work for you.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/10/optimize-your-reading-experience-with.html…
YouTube Launches $20 Million Fund as Part of ‘Learning’ Initiative
YouTube offered details around a new $20 million fund that is part of YouTube Learning, an initiative announced by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki this summer, to invest in educational videos.
Introduction to Open Education: Towards a Human Rights Theory
Open education, which began in earnest in the late 1960s with the establishment of open universities and gained momentum in the first part of this century through open educational resources and open technologies, is part of a wider effort to …
New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience
Technologist, scientist, and co-founder of Numenta, Jeff Hawkins, presented an innovative framework for understanding how the human neocortex operates, called “The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence,” at the Human Brain Project Summit in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in October 2018.
5 Ways to Make Multimedia Books
Writing multimedia ebooks can be a nice way for students to illustrate and or further explain portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they compose. The following five tools make it possible for students to create and publish multimedia ebooks …
Psychologists create free intelligence test for tablets and smartphones
Psychologists with UC Irvine and UC Riverside have developed a new test designed to measure intelligence. Unlike some existing tests, which often require payment and take a large block of time to finish, the new test is free and can …
Two Good Video Explanations of Fair Use in Education
Guidelines around fair use can be confusing to say the least. If you find yourself or your students confused by fair use, take a look at the following videos from Common Craft and Crash Course. Both provide clear explanations of …
This robot co-taught a course at West Point
Bina48, the first-ever robot to complete a college course, finished another mission today: It became the first robot to co-teach a university-level class.