Tim Berners-Lee has launched a petition-pledge website calling on people to endorse a set of principles for the open web. The principles basically call for access, privacy and benefit to humanity. The main page calls for a web that’s safe, …
Blockchain explained: What it is and isn’t, and why it matters
Understanding how blockchain creates business value is essential for companies to identify the right use cases and move beyond small pilots to widespread adoption.
China’s Xinhua agency unveils AI news presenter
China’s state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice.
30 ways to make your lessons interactive
Students benefit when we create lessons where they can interact with the content. What makes a lesson truly interactive? And how can we leverage the tools we have available to make our lessons more interactive.
http://www.edtechupdate.com/edition/daily-differentiated-instruction-edtech-2018-11-09…
Six ways to use Google Photos in the Classroom
Here are six ideas to help you use Google Photos to document learning in your classroom and help students create wonderful multimedia projects.
https://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2018/06/six-ways-to-use-google-photos-in.html…
Is Your Feedback Really Effective? – This Google Docs Add-on Will Tell You
JoeZoo is a free Google Docs Add-on that teachers can use to add voice and text comments to a students’ paper. But that alone is not what makes it great. What makes JoeZoo stand out from the crowd is the …
Learning Together, Learning on Their Own
What if schools could offer teachers both shared professional learning experiences and personalized learning opportunities?
Edji – A Great Tool for Literacy and Critical Thinking
Edji is a unique, collaborative annotation tool that works on any device. Students and teachers can highlight portions of text and leave either emoji comments or text comments. They can also place a hotspot on a picture and leave a …
The case for a decentralized internet
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Presentation of the Week: Designing Learning Environments for a Digital Age
How to Create Captioned Flipped Video Lessons
Here’s the outline of how you can use Google Slides and screencasting to create a captioned flipped lesson.
https://practicaledtech.com/2018/11/04/how-to-create-captioned-flipped-video-lessons/…
Students to be taught by ‘holograms’ at Imperial College London
Business students at Imperial College London are set to be offered lectures led by “holographic professors” in a world first. The holograms are able to engage with students in real-time, responding to reactions and taking questions via a camera link …
How Smart Class Technology is Benefiting Education Sector
It is not just about sharing information but also creating a better online presentation by avoiding the need to write manually.
4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Machine learning algorithms do precisely what they are taught to do and are only as good as their mathematical construction and the data they are trained on. Algorithms that are biased will end up doing things that reflect that bias. …
Dropbox’s new software extensions let you easily edit files on the web
Dropbox has a new feature it hopes will make getting work done from within its cloud storage product even easier. Called Extensions, these third-party software plug-ins will let you perform basic tasks you’d normally need to launch a separate app …