The Learning Designer helps teachers plan a sequence of learning and teaching activities to engage their students both in and beyond the classroom.
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/a-new-tool-to-help-teachers-as-digital-learning-designers…
Five Places to Find Free Music and Sounds for Multimedia Projects
From adding music to a slideshow to adding sound effects to videos to bumper music for podcasts, there are plenty of classroom projects that require free audio files. If you find yourself or your students in need of some free …
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) is a living repository of collective knowledge, written to equip all those who want to publish open textbooks with the resources they need.
https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/…
The Impact of VR on Student Education
Virtual Reality–VR–is the 2018 buzzword among students, teachers, and even parents. And rightfully deserved, VR has the ability to recreate so many of the rules that used to shape education. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, shares her opinion …
CUNY Team Launches Open Digital Platform for Learning and Collaboration
Built using the WordPress publishing platform, with BuddyPress for social networking, it is designed to simplify the process of creating commons spaces where members can discuss issues, collaborate, and share their work. CBOX is being used by academic institutions, scholarly …
4 Important Gmail Features for Teachers
Gmail has announced the release of a new set of features and improvements to its Gmail on the web. These include a brand new look for your Gmail, sophisticated security measures, more integrations with G Suite apps, new ways to …
Presentation of the Week: Vision 2030: Redesigning Education for the Future
How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
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Going Paperless Benefits Teachers, Students—and the Bottom Line
Today, the concept of a paperless classroom is more than just a trend. Schools across the country are now opting for apps and other software as a replacement for traditional pen and paper. And as technology improves, so do the …
You Can Take These 600 Online Courses for Free
You no longer need to be a Harvard student or Princeton grad to benefit from instruction at these exclusive institutions. You can access some of their most popular classes online via MOOCs.
https://lifehacker.com/you-can-take-these-600-online-courses-for-free-1830066444…
Why Millions of Teens Can’t Finish Their Homework
The push toward technology-focused education overlooks the students who lack the resources needed to complete their assignments.
Optimize Your Reading Experience with These Excellent Chrome Apps
These are extensions that will transform web pages into distraction-free and reader-friendly pages and provide you with an optimal reading experience online. You may want to check them out and see which ones work for you.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/10/optimize-your-reading-experience-with.html…
YouTube Launches $20 Million Fund as Part of ‘Learning’ Initiative
YouTube offered details around a new $20 million fund that is part of YouTube Learning, an initiative announced by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki this summer, to invest in educational videos.
Introduction to Open Education: Towards a Human Rights Theory
Open education, which began in earnest in the late 1960s with the establishment of open universities and gained momentum in the first part of this century through open educational resources and open technologies, is part of a wider effort to …
New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience
Technologist, scientist, and co-founder of Numenta, Jeff Hawkins, presented an innovative framework for understanding how the human neocortex operates, called “The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence,” at the Human Brain Project Summit in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in October 2018.