Five books that give insight into how social media and technology are shaping today’s students and their learning.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-digital-age-affecting-students…
Transfer your handwritten notes to your computer with this genius pen
At first glance, this weird gadget looks like a highlighter from the future or some luxurious stylus. However, it’s actually packed with text recognition technology that turns your written words into RAW images and then transposes them onto your screen.…
Why we have an emotional connection to robots
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Presentation of the Week: Personal Learning vs Personalized Learning: What Needs to Happen
Internet should be a formal subject in schools
The internet should became a formal subject on the school curriculum – just like physics, chemistry and maths – according to an education academic. That’s because we live in an era where schoolchildren have “teachers and libraries in their pockets …
These 12 apps and services can help you ditch Google completely
Here are the top alternatives for some of the most popular Google products, inspired by the “No More Google” list.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ditch-google-2018-10…
Some Good Tools to Access Open Digital Textbooks
This is a list featuring some popular platforms that provide open digital textbooks. Textbooks are arranged into different categories and content areas. Some of the textbooks are available for free download in various formats others can only be read online.…
Why a Web of Connections—Not a Single Relationship—Should Surround Students
Research from an array of youth development and social capital scholars is clear: students will most benefit from a web of adults supporting their healthy development, academic success and access to opportunity.
How MOOC-Based Master’s Degrees May Transform Higher Ed
A new master’s degree offering from MOOC platform EdX and seven partner universities allows online learners to earn a post-baccalaureate diploma at a fraction of the cost of a traditional program.
$1 Billion in Savings through Open Educational Resources
Five years ago at the 2013 Open Education Conference, we issued a challenge to the OER community to save students $1 billion by 2018. Today we are thrilled to share that the data show that the OER movement has saved …
The Guardian view on artificial intelligence: human learning
Computers can’t be held responsible for anything. So their owners and programmers must be.
OneNote Class Notebook: A Digital Binder That Will Change the Way You Teach
OneNote is like a digital binder, an online notebook where you can take notes on individual pages, then organize the pages within subject tabs. Because the binder is digital, you can also hyperlink text, embed video and audio, add drawings, …
One Way to Help Students Become Knowledge Creators
Being a professor comes with a certain amount of authority. But some instructors have found that letting go in the classroom and finding ways for students to construct their own knowledge can create a richer experience for them.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/One-Way-to-Help-Students/244769…
The best Internet security: Layers of protection and good habits
The best protection consists of setting up and maintaining layers of security on your devices: keeping your operating system, browsers, and software updated, paying for decent but not overbearing virus and malware protection, installing browser extensions for Web privacy and …
Do classroom clickers improve learning? It depends.
Classroom “clickers” quiz students in real time, allowing instructors to gauge student learning and reinforce what is being taught. New research suggests that the effectiveness of these devices hinges largely on the teaching methods being used with them, not the …