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The Horizon Project can be regarded as education’s longest-running exploration of emerging technology trends that support teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.

https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2019/4/2019horizonreport.pdf…

Educators balance privacy concerns with learning possibilities when considering the use of voice devices in the classroom.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/alexa-do-you-belong-classroom?es_p=9149101…

MoocNote is a new web tool ideal for flipped classrooms. Using MoocNote, you will be able to build your own video library by importing videos from YouTube, Dropbox, or Google Drive. You can also use MoocNote’s video player interface to …

Glide enables anyone who can make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to create his or her own mobile app. If that sounds simple, that’s because it is just that simple. The headers that you put into your spreadsheet and the …

If you have any sensitive data at all — and these days who doesn’t? — at some point you are going to need to find a way to securely wipe it. It’s a fact of life. Here’s a quick guide …

Here’s how with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other emerging technology, it is now possible to monitor and control the online education scenario more than ever before.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/332224…

We’ve known Microsoft had something new and Surfacey up its sleeve for this week. Turns out the company’s finally ready to unveil the long-promised Surface Hub 2S.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/17/microsofts-more-portable-surface-hub-s2-ships-in-june-for-9000/…

Ed tech startup Derivita today launched its new online homework system. Derivita can be used with any textbook or open educational resource, providing “deeper and more complicated question types to elevate math learning,” according to a news announcement. Its assessment …

We’re certainly on to something when we say the brain is a computer – even if we don’t yet know what exactly we’re on to.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-probably-is-a-computer-whatever-that-means…

Passwords are a problem. Every account should have a unique password that’s hard to guess. But how do you remember all those unique passwords when you have a lot of accounts?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2019/04/21/how-to-create-unique-passwords-for-every-account-that-are-hard-to-guess-and-easy-to-remember/#3d612f511da1…

Today we are sharing with you this interesting collection of web tools that students researchers can use to manage their references, compile bibliographies, generate citations, access journal articles and many more.

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/04/5-handy-tools-for-research-students.html…

Libraries are finding new ways to measure their worth. They’re counting how many times students use electronic library resources or visit in person, and comparing that to how well the students do in their classes and how likely they are …