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Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation …

Microsoft has developed a physical programming language to make coding accessible to anyone with a visual impairment. Code Jumper consists of a series of pods, each of which contains a single line of code, representing a set of commands.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46959888…

Helpful Links for Microsoft’s Inclusive Classroom Experiences contains more than four dozen resources for learning about Microsoft’s Learning Tools and other accessibility features. The list includes a few full-length professional development webinars, the aforementioned training packs, case studies, and deployment …

Below are two of the best text to speech apps out there. These add-ons have integrated iSpeech technology which allows them to read any text you select for them. Watch the attached videos to see how each one of them …

I’m generally skeptical of all the prognosticating at the start of each new year. But that doesn’t mean we can’t hope for good things to come. Below is my wish list of ideas for teaching that I hope to see …

Without question, social media platforms (including Facebook and Twitter) need to dramatically and quickly improve their capabilities and policies to both identify “bad actors” and limit the harmful damage they can do online around the world. Here are a few …

Classroom furniture has often been an afterthought in many schools, but furniture can and does have a significant impact at all levels.

http://www.bsdfutureready.com/blog/flexible-classroom-seating-and-reimagining-classroom-culture…

What recommendations should we be giving parents and youth when it comes to screen time?  In past limiting some types of screen time made sense. A time when the American Pediatric Association (AAP) made long-standing screen time limits recommendations. However, …

DigiGlot is a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter that reports on how indigenous, minority, and endangered language communities are adopting and adapting technology to increase the digital presence of their languages, and in the process changing the internet landscape by increasing linguistic …

The evolution of ed tech has always demonstrated that as tech platforms get more complex, product teams turn to other disciplines to get the expertise they need.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2019/01/14/learning-engineering-making-education-more-professional.aspx…

Watching and analyzing how people play games reveal a great deal on the process of learning. Gaming theorist, Tom Hatfield (author of the popular book/; Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century) contends that successful video games include 7 learning …

The TLPD  portal (phase one) focuses on sharing and showcasing professional development learning events by B.C. public post-secondary institutions. These events can be searched by topic, keyword, location, or date.

https://bccampus.ca/2019/01/15/introducing-the-teaching-and-learning-professional-development-portal/…

PhotoScissors is a free image editing tool that you can use to remove the background from your images. PhotoScissors is available to use for free online and is available to download as desktop software.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/01/remove-image-background-with.html…