What many commentators describe as an addiction is actually a powerful social norm at work. The distinction matters.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90363950/stop-calling-it-a-phone-addiction-its-just-a-social-norm…
How Can You Combine Mobile Learning And Gamification To Create High Impact Training?
Mobile learning and gamification are 2 leading trends that are used extensively in online training. In this article, I share insights on you how you can amplify their impact by combining their powers.
6 Windows Apps That Automatically Organize Files for You
The only way to overcome information overload is to put everything in its place on arrival. But how do you get started? We’ll show you some excellent apps that let you organize different types of files in Windows automatically.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/automatically-organize-files-windows/…
Generating Useful Feedback with Digital Survey Tools
Polls and surveys are useful methods for gathering information about your students, tracking progress, and using that feedback to form lesson plans and assessments. With the latest digital survey tools, you can gather that information more accurately and more quickly. …
9 Good Apple Watch Apps for Teachers
It’s too early to talk about the use of wearable technology in education but the buzz Apple Watch is making within education circles heralds a promising future for a potential integration of this device in mainstream education. Here is a …
2019 Internet Trends report
Mary Meeker has released her annual internet trends report. The more interesting bits in the report are elsewhere. Highlights include: her discussion of freemium (p. 89), of the new role for data (p. 134, 147), on-demand work (p. 227), and …
How to make your handwriting editable text
Sometimes it’s simply quicker and easier to hand write the notes you want to take throughout a busy day at school. But what happens to those notes after you’ve written them down? Well here’s a way to save them and …
How to shoot 360-degree panos with Google Street View
Shooting 360-degree panoramas may seem like a complex photographic endeavor, but with the Google Street View app on your smartphone, it’s incredibly fun and easy for anyone to accomplish. You just need a smartphone and an app.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-shoot-360-degree-panos-with-google-street-view/…
How to Make Any Smartphone More Accessible and Easier to Use
We’re not all blessed with 20/20 vision, super-sharp hearing and the dexterity to easily operate a touchscreen—and even for those of us who are, it’s unlikely to last. Whether you’re adapting a phone for yourself or a friend or family …
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Presentation of the Week: Moodlenet Non-technical Overview
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6 Insights About The Future Of Learning Inspired By How Engineers Train Robots
Extensive teaching of simple tasks through watching and repetition, then practiced several at a time on randomly generated, rich environments, virtual or not, allows to evaluate and refine the creation of “policies” that become instantly ready for real-life use by …
A new way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone
We’ve been wasting our processing power to train neural networks that are ten times too big.
The Importance of Teaching Yourself New Things
In this video, Sean Tucker talks about the importance of being an autodidact and committing to teaching yourself for life. Designing your own curriculum will give the art you do content.
https://www.iso1200.com/2019/06/the-importance-of-teaching-yourself-new.html…
Education in 2030: Five Scenarios for the Future of Learning and Talent
This report draws from both the ‘top down’ – looking at data and research from sources like the World Bank and OECD – and the ‘bottom up’ – analyzing hundreds of news articles, blog posts and commentaries from a wide …