YouTube video essays are long-form (relative to many other internet videos) critical videos that make arguments about media and culture. They’re usually meticulously narrated and edited, juxtaposing video footage, images, audio, and text to make an argument much like a …
Danish edtech startup is conquering the American market with a platform for peer grading
How does a teacher manage to grade hundreds of assignments? By letting the students grade each other’s work. Peer assessment has been around since the 1950’s and is a proven method to grade assignments. But in order to be efficient, …
Your brain on video games
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Presentation of the Week: Student consent in learning analytics: Finding a way out of the labyrinth
Does Life In 2018 Live up to What We Predicted a Century Ago?
People in the early 20th century were hopeful about the future innovation might bring. Futurists of the early 1900s predicted an incredible boom in technology that would transform human lives for the better.
7 Tips for Managing the Internet in Your Classroom
Managing classroom Internet can be a challenge for teachers. Here are a few ideas on how to managing classroom internet when incorporating web tools into your instruction.
http://classtechtips.com/2016/09/28/managing-classroom-internet/…
New Google Earth Has Exciting Features for Teachers
Google has recently released a brand new version of Google Earth for both Chrome and Android. This new version has come with a slew of nifty features teachers can use for educational purposes with students in class. Following is a …
How to Build Your Own App If You Don’t Know How to Code
Here, we’re walking you through the process of creating your own app by examining five software tools to get the job done.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-your-own-app-if-you-dont-know-how-to-code-1822376541…
Why one professor live-streamed lectures for free on social media
The lectures, part of a special class about Viola Desmond, were streamed on Facebook Live.
PoodLL A\V Recording Plugin For Moodle Gets Deep Into HTML5 With Latest Update
In its latest update, PoodLL, a Moodle plugin family by prominent Moodler Justin Hunt, leverages the power of HTML5 features in audio and video recording and playback.
106 Experts Share Their Thoughts On The Future Of Education, Part 2: Edtech
We decided to produce an expert roundup on the topic of the future of education. We asked 106 education experts to answer one question: “What are your thoughts on the future of education?” In part 2 of this series, we …
What’s behind the soaring cost of college textbooks
Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of students to skip buying required texts …
EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program
EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the undergraduate credential into Lego-like components.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-25-edx-quietly-developing-microbachelors-program…
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
We selected ten books which help capture the ideas and resources made available in 2017. We make no pretense to be representative of all books published in all languages – our focus is …
5 Ideas for Writing with Technology
I think what happens to a lot of teachers is that they confuse the idea of teaching writing — when they are talking about technology — with teaching handwriting or keyboarding.