Students who are conceptual and visual learners can grasp concepts through AVR, which in turn allows textbooks to make sense.
How to improve student educational outcomes: New insights from data analytics
By applying advanced analytics and machine learning, we have identified factors that play a critical role in student achievement.
An Alternative to the Engineering Model of Personalized Learning
Larry Berger “is exactly right that there is a fundamental problem with the assumptions behind what he calls the engineering model of personalized learning,” writes Phil Hill.
https://mfeldstein.com/alternative-engineering-model-personalized-learning/…
A Must Have Tool for Taking Notes on Videos
Reclipped is an excellent educational tool to use to annotate and create video snippets. It allows you to collect relevant parts from videos, add your comments and notes to them and then share them with others. You can trim videos …
How to use data to increase student success rates
If you’re looking to improve the success of your students these steps can help you get to the root of the problem and establish strategies to increase key graduation statistics.
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/01/31/student-success-rates/…
Don’t call it a snow day: Schools closed, but Leyden students participate in ‘e-learning day’ from home
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/…