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Psychologists have uncovered reasons why students put off important work. But there are a few simple things teachers can do to keep students on track.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-reasons-students-procrastinate-and-how-help-them-stop

Cloud Stop Motion is a browser-based tool for creating short stop motion videos.  Cloud Stop Motion could be a great tool for students to use to create short videos to animate stories they’ve written by using toys or clay models. …

On January 29th, 2020, Vanier College held a launch event for their Teacher’s Innovation and Exploration Kit (TIEK) which allows teachers to try Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR) and other recent technologies to explore their pedagogical …

Headliner is a browser-based video editor. It has more editing features than Adobe Spark but not quite as many as WeVideo. Headliner provides its “pro” version for free to schools. The pro version removes all watermarks. Finished videos can be …

‘Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.’

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agamm/the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia-is-written-almost-entirely-by-one-bot

Focusing less on the slides and more on student discussion fosters deeper engagement.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reducing-dependence-slides

There’s a new application of AI in education, and educators aren’t going to like it. A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based …

One of the big questions we face is, how can we help ensure effective edtech happens more often? The key lies in helping educators to look at the available evidence and make careful decisions. In many cases, that’s easier said …

Who uses social media? When did the rise of social media start and what are the largest sites today? Here we answer these and other key questions to understand social media use around the world. We begin with an outline …

TikTok: teens love it, and parents don’t understand it. Congress fears it. Brands want to make money off it. It is, perhaps, the most controversial (and beloved) social network ever.  So, what is TikTok, and how does it work? Why …

It’s not just for finding Pokemon any more—but rather a futuristic teaching aid sparking student motivation.

https://www.macleans.ca/education/college/augmented-virtual-reality-colleges-technology-learning/

Online learning may give students a choice about when and where to study, but this flexibility should not be confused with being easy or fast. Learning is a process and it takes time. By studying online, you might be able …