Virginia colleges are beginning to embrace the idea of blockchain diplomas, as Virginia Beach-based ECPI University has joined a group of early adopters that distribute student degrees through the same kind of decentralized computer networks that power Bitcoin.
9 Hidden iPhone Features That Make Your Life Easier
Here you’ll see simple iPhone features that maybe escaped your attention.
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How I gave my students voice and increased collaboration
Increasing collaboration in the classroom goes way beyond having students work together once in a while. Your job as a classroom teacher should be to create a culture in which teamwork is front and center in everything that you do.…
10 Ways Edtech is Reinventing the College Lecture
Edtech inspires students to take the things they learn in lecture and apply them to other areas of their daily life. How exactly is this technology reinventing the college lecture scene? Take a look at a few of these top …
Amazon says it’s making freely available the same machine learning courses that it uses to teach its own engineers
The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses that it uses to train its own engineers. There are more than 45 hours across 30 different courses that developers, data scientists, data platform …
Adding and Using Comments on Screencastify Videos
There are many excellent screen recording tools available, but one of my favorites is the Screencastify Chrome extension. It is simple to use, has lots of nice features and is free for videos up to 10 minutes long.
https://www.techlearning.com/features/adding-and-using-comments-on-screencastify-videos…
What Does VR Have to Do With Online Education?
Does virtual reality have applications for online education, or is it just another gimmick?
https://www.learndash.com/what-does-vr-have-to-do-with-online-education/…
When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?
Presentation of the Week: Blockchain in Education
How to Use Micro-learning in Higher Education Classrooms
Micro-learning is focused on smaller learning units that are delivered within a short time frame. Usually, each micro-learning unit will have a single objective (or ‘learning outcome’), and it is advisable to make this objective clear to the learner(s) prior …
This computer is learning to read your mind
Presentation of the Week: Future trends for education and technology: 2018
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here, and it is changing everything
The Third Industrial Revolution (aka the digital revolution) is defined by electronics and IT, automated production, and advanced globalization. However, the changes we are beginning to see, and where we are heading as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, …
Here Is An Excellent Web Tool for Creating Class Newspapers
Printing Press, from ReadWriteThink, is one of the most popular web tools for creating classroom newspapers, informational brochures and flyers to use in your instruction. It has been designed specifically for K-12 students to help them unleash their creative writing …
Artificial Intelligence will match humans intelligence by 2062
In less than 50 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will match humans on traits like adaptability, creativity and emotional intelligence, an expert has predicted. Speaking at the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” at University of New South Wales in Sydney on Sunday, …