We need to be aware that different learning strategies improve learning in different ways. Teachers should either think about what their learning goal is and match the activity to that learning goal, or they should be sure to use a …
What the Research Says About VR in Classrooms
While we’ve been inundated over the past few years with the promises and potentials of virtual reality (VR), it’s been tough to slice through the hype to find facts, especially the kind of trustworthy research on VR adoption, effects, and …
4 Great Apps to Turn Your iPad Into An Interactive Whiteboard
Whether you want to create an educational tutorial, an explanatory screencast, or and illustrative visual, these whiteboard apps empower you with the required tools to unleash your creative thinking. Check them out and share with us your feedback in our …
Google app ‘Grasshopper’ offers games to help you learn to code
Smartphone owners who want to learn how to code can learn the fundamentals with Google’s new app, “Grasshopper,” which launched Wednesday.
The BBC is letting you download more than 16,000 free sound effect samples from its archive
There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, so there’s bound to be great interest in the news that the corporation has now made more than 16,000 of its FX available for free download.…
How language shapes the way we think
Presentation of the Week: How Smart and Personalized are our classes?
9 Educational Tools to Transform Your Class Into A Paperless Classroom
With the proliferation of web technologies and mobile apps, the concept of a paperless digital classroom becomes more relevant than any time before. This post features some of our favourite web tools and apps teachers can use to transform their …
Google will help preserve endangered historical sites in virtual reality
Google is partnering with 3D laser-scanning nonprofit CyArk to build VR representations of world wonders.
Shifting from Passive to Active Learning
Passive learning with devices involves the consumption of information and low-level and engagement instructional techniques such as taking notes, reading, and digital worksheets. On the other hand, active learning empowers students through meaningful activities where they actively apply what has …
AI has already started reshaping the Special Education
AI is especially influential for children who need special education. Developing fully intelligent education tools and new virtual teaching assistants will take time for sure. But given the current technological advancements, here is the five changes AI is already making …
Design of a Personalized Massive Open Online Course Platform
Focusing on the massive open online course (MOOC) platform, the purpose of this study is to realize personalized adaptive learning according to the needs and abilities of each learner.
http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/8470…
14 Signs Of Cyberbullying In The Classroom
Like traditional bullying, there are warning signs for teachers to watch for in their students. These signs can help you identify a victim or a cyberbully and step into the situation. Cyberbullying can be quite harmful to the well-being of …
Google’s Talk to Books lets you browse books with the help of AI
Google launched a new experience today that it’s calling Talk to Books. It’s pretty much what it sounds like: the demo asks for input in the form of regular old sentences, then tries to locate logical responses to those …
How to Build a Mini Supercomputer for Under $100
Supercomputers often take up the size of a basketball court and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but as Github user Wei Lin has demonstrated, it’s possible to make a homebrew computing cluster that doesn’t break the bank.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpb78/diy-computing-cluster-esp32-raspberry-pi…