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This report offers a good overview of the state of blockchain in education.

https://www.holoniq.com/news/education-blockchain-50-fuzzy-front-end/…

According to research we published this week with Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey & Company, AI can not only accelerate the shift to a more sustainable future, but also generate new value.

https://www.blog.google/perspectives/kate-brandt/ai-can-accelerate-shift-more-sustainable-future…

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in the classroom?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-01-23-how-much-artificial-intelligence-should-there-be-in-the-classroom…

Over the last year, education innovators around the country continued to pursue expanded definitions of student success, personalized approaches, and wholly new models of school. Looking ahead, here are five big ideas I’ll be watching for in 2019:

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/01/28/5-big-ideas-for-education-innovation-in-2019/…

A new paper by University of South Australia researchers says Class Dojo promotes an archaic approach to discipline and likens it to China’s social credit system.

https://www.smh.com.au/education/it-s-all-about-controlling-students-researchers-slam-popular-app-20190118-p50s8l.html…

Below is a list of free web tools your students can use to carry on a class discussion while you lecture, show a video, or present reading material.  

https://flipboard.com/topic/educationtechnology/12-tools-to-ensure-all-students-participate-meaningfully/f-2feea95f53%2Fesllibrary.com…

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation …

Microsoft has developed a physical programming language to make coding accessible to anyone with a visual impairment. Code Jumper consists of a series of pods, each of which contains a single line of code, representing a set of commands.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46959888…

Helpful Links for Microsoft’s Inclusive Classroom Experiences contains more than four dozen resources for learning about Microsoft’s Learning Tools and other accessibility features. The list includes a few full-length professional development webinars, the aforementioned training packs, case studies, and deployment …

Below are two of the best text to speech apps out there. These add-ons have integrated iSpeech technology which allows them to read any text you select for them. Watch the attached videos to see how each one of them …

I’m generally skeptical of all the prognosticating at the start of each new year. But that doesn’t mean we can’t hope for good things to come. Below is my wish list of ideas for teaching that I hope to see …

Without question, social media platforms (including Facebook and Twitter) need to dramatically and quickly improve their capabilities and policies to both identify “bad actors” and limit the harmful damage they can do online around the world. Here are a few …

Classroom furniture has often been an afterthought in many schools, but furniture can and does have a significant impact at all levels.

http://www.bsdfutureready.com/blog/flexible-classroom-seating-and-reimagining-classroom-culture…