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Want to go digital with analog productivity techniques? That’s easy to do if you find the right app. To help you there, we’ve rounded up the best apps designed around popular productivity methods. We’ve selected only web apps to ensure …

Grades are the primary way in which educators measure learning. But do letters and percentages truly represent aptitude and skills? Educators are beginning to question the purpose of grades and the assumption that they are the best indicators of student …

Copyright law bestows exclusive rights on content creators. The fair use privilege is the most significant limitation on a copyright owner’s exclusive rights. This legal provision proves quite confusing to most people. Not to worry! Below we have carefully explained …

The Langogo Genesis is a hand-held pocket translator, smaller than a smartphone, that uses noise-cancelling microphones to translate between more than 100 languages, while offering you a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot while you’re traveling. We’ve been using one for the last …

Researchers at Imperial College London published a paper in Nature Communications on Tuesday that explored how inadequate current techniques to anonymize datasets are. Before a company shares a dataset, they will remove identifying information such as names and email addresses, …

Pearson said students would only be able to rent physical textbooks from now on, and they would be updated much less frequently. The British firm hopes the move will make more students buy its e-textbooks which are updated continually.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48998789…

A survey conducted by Gradeup indicated that the access to expert faculty & live classes are driving students to e-learning.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/336516?hss_channel=tw-2961279789…

If you have hundreds of our old family photos and would like to scan them and make a secure cloud gallery that is searchable for your extended family by subject or name, take a look into this article.

https://lifehacker.com/how-do-i-digitize-and-share-a-ton-of-old-family-photos-1835484124…

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…

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.

https://www.td.org/user/content/ashapandey/how-can-you-combine-mobile-learning-and-gamification-to-create-high-impact-training-06-10-19-06-26…

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/…

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. …

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 …