With Jisc’s learning analytics service going live last summer, we caught up with some of the people who are part of the community of practice shaping the service, to find out how implementation is going and what learning analytics is …
Adoption of AI in education is accelerating. Massive potential but hurdles remain
As in many other fields, AI in education is focused on performing cognitive functions such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving with application to vast the challenges and opportunities of continuously educating the 7.7 billion people on the planet.
https://www.holoniq.com/notes/ai-potential-adoption-and-barriers-in-global-education/…
Creating Interactive Videos & Video-based Lessons
Good resources to help you creating interactive video-based lessons.
https://practicaledtech.com/2019/04/07/creating-interactive-videos-video-based-lessons/…
Why Is China The World’s Leader In Edtech?
In 2018, Chinese startups received over 50% of all the capital invested by venture capitalists in EdTechs worldwide. Chinese EdTech companies received more money than the total amount invested in EdTech firms from all other countries combined.
How Canada Became an Education Superpower
When there are debates about the world’s top performing education systems, the names that usually get mentioned are the Asian powerhouses such as Singapore and South Korea or the Nordic know-alls, such as Finland or Norway. But with much less …
Presentation of the Week: Using learning analytics to improve student transition into and support throughout the 1st year
Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
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Social Media Is Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1…
Outlook’s new AI features help you plan for meetings
Microsoft just announced that it is beefing up Outlook with new AI-driven features. In the next few weeks (in North America in English), it will roll out a trio of features in Outlook on the web to expedite meeting prep, …
Story time with e-books ‘not as helpful’ as print books
Researchers from the University of Michigan found parents talked more about the technology than content when using electronic books. With print, the frequency and quality of interactions were better, said lead author Dr Tiffany Munzer.
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio Receive Turing Award, ‘the Nobel Prize Of Computing’
Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep neural networks. Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto (UofT), has been named a recipient …
15 top thinkers predict the biggest tech breakthroughs in our lifetime
From 100 per cent renewable power and scientifically-driven longevity to neurotechnology and automated deliberation, these are the breakthroughs that will shape the future of humanity.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hay-festival-2019-technology-science-breakthrough…
Killed by Google
This is a list of 149 products and services that have been killed by Google over the years. It stands as an object lesson in why you should not depend on commercial vendors and platforms for critical services.
This “Smart” Notebook Is an Amazon Bestseller, and It’s Easy to See Why
This notebook comes equipped with a Pilot FriXion pen that wipes off clean, letting you reuse its 36 pages again and again. The best part? You can easily transfer your notes to Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, OneNote, Slack, iCloud, …
How to track a laptop
Tracking laptops is easy. Don’t wait until it’s stolen to use these simple tools.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-track-a-laptop/
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