The snow last week in the U.S. Midwest has allowed some Chicago-area schools to test their “e-learning day” arrangements. Leyden High School is ” one of three Illinois school districts participating in a pilot program that could put an end …
Pixorize – Free Image Annotation Tool
Pixorize is a free tool for adding interactive annotations to your images. Using Pixorize is a fairly straight-forward process. Once the image is uploaded you can add points, circles, squares, and stars as annotation markers on your image. After adding …
Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)
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Presentation of the Week: Deep Dreaming of AI in Education
How to create a paperless classroom with just 3 educational apps
In this post I’ll give you some tips on which educational apps you could use to go paperless. Yes, this digital classroom software is easy to use and very, mega, extremely handy. My paperless classroom ideas come with a nice …
Researching Best Presentation Practices and Sharing of PowerPoints
Presentation software is a ubiquitous part of lecturing in the college network. When shared with students, the presentation slides can be a very useful tool for students, and particularly for those who have special needs. The Adaptech Research Network recently …
Reading Digital Games as Texts
Story-driven digital games can drive students to explore concepts like linear and nonlinear narrative, the unreliable narrator, and more.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/reading-digital-games-texts…
AI algorithm with ‘social skills’ teaches humans how to collaborate
An international team has developed an AI algorithm with social skills that has outperformed humans in the ability to cooperate with people and machines in playing a variety of two-player games.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-algorithm-teaches-humans-how-to-collaborate…
Three Higher Ed Design Trends for 2018
Designers are always looking ahead to new innovations in aesthetics and process. Whether that change is grounded in user needs, market opportunity, or pure curiosity, we’re always pushing forward. Rested from our winter holiday and motivated to make this year …
An education for the 21st century means teaching coding in schools
Being introduced to coding gives students an appreciation of what can be built with technology. We are surrounded by devices controlled by computers. Understanding how they work, and imagining new devices and services, are enhanced by understanding coding.
http://www.theedadvocate.org/an-education-for-the-21st-century-means-teaching-coding-in-schools-2/…
Today, Michio Kaku Described What Life Will Look Like in Twenty Years
From toilets that read our proteins to walls that talk to us, Kaku painted a staggeringly beautiful (and somewhat comical) picture of the world of tomorrow.
Checking For Plagiarism In Google Docs: Edit Where You Write
After recent integration with Google Classroom, Unicheck, a leading plagiarism checker has already announced a new add-on release for Google Docs. For the user this plagiarism checker add-on introduces the same core functionality, combined with several new convenience-level changes involving …
Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia
Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/teaching-assistant-robots-will-reinvent-academia…
Need to Go on a ‘Tech Diet’? Current Ways to Fight Your Device Addiction
Here are some other ways parents and educators can monitor and manage children’s screen time on mobile devices.
Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave
It’s official: Facebook is for old(er) people. Teens and young adults are ditching Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as popularity among the over-55s surges, according to a report.