The Ontario government, under the leadership of its premier Doug Ford has announced it will ban cellphone use during ‘instructional time’ in its schools from September. I am sure many instructors already discourage if not actually ban the use of …
Introducing the Coursera Global Skills Index
The Coursera Global Skills Index (GSI) is an in-depth look at skill trends and performance around the world, made possible by the millions of learners who come to Coursera to learn and grow.
https://blog.coursera.org/introducing-the-coursera-global-skills-index/…
18 Free Image Sites and Tools for Schools
There are many sites and tools that can help educators and students find free photos, clipart, icons, and more. See below for a list of many of these, and be sure to share your suggestions for other resources to add …
Global guidelines: Ethics in Learning Analytics
The Report does not intend nor is it able to answer all ethical questions about the use of Learning Analytics in all countries, and accepts there are legitimate issues of differentiation deriving from national legislation and broader cultural issues. The …
Game-Based Learning Is Changing How We Teach. Here’s Why.
Teachers can create almost any type of experience they want in Minecraft because it is such a malleable space.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-02-04-game-based-learning-is-changing-how-we-teach-here-s-why…
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
As more and more laptops find their way into middle and high schools, educators are using Google Docs to do collaborative exercises and help students follow along with the lesson plan. The students, however, are using it to organize running …
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Privat
Send is a free encrypted file transfer service that allows users to safely and simply share files from any browser. Additionally, Send will also be available as an Android app in beta later this week. Now that it’s a keeper, …
A Collection of Free Textbooks for Teachers
Today we are adding this excellent resource from Open Culture comprising over 200 free textbooks. This huge collection is a work-in progress meaning more resources are to be added in the future.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/03/a-collection-of-free-textbooks-for.html…
Big data, learning analytics and language learning / teaching
The presence of digital data and software in education is being amplified through massive financial and political investment in educational technologies, as well as huge growth in data collection and analysis in policy making practices, extension of performance measurement technologies …
How to keep human bias out of AI
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Presentation of the Week: Open Pedagogy: Building Compassionate Spaces for Online Learning
4 Educational Web Tools to Try Out
Here is a set of educational web tools you can try out in your instruction. The tools which we have shared in the past allows you to perform a wide variety of digital activities including creating and sharing online quizzes, …
Editors Canada releases new guidelines for the ethical editing of students’ work
The guidelines require students to have a letter signed by their instructor indicating what kind of editing help is permitted.
There’s no such thing as a “tech person” in the age of AI
We need to stop perpetuating the false dichotomy between technology and the humanities. To do otherwise would be detrimental to society.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613063/ai-ethics-mit-college-of-computing-tech-humanities/…
This Site Detects Whether Text Was Written by a Bot
A team of scientists from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Harvard University built an algorithm called GLTR that determines how likely it is that any particular passage of text was written by a tool like GPT-2 — an intriguing …