AI and robotics are, among other things, catalyzing the creation of new majors, minors, and certificate programs.
SpeakPipe Adds New Landing Pages for Gathering Voice Recordings
SpeakPipe is a service that I have used and recommended for many years. It’s a service that provides you with the ability to collect voicemail messages through your blog or website.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/speakpipe-adds-new-landing-pages-for.html…
Facebook and Instagram now reveal how much time you spend in each app
A new set of features are starting to roll out to the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps on Wednesday to help you better manage how you spend time on the platforms.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/01/technology/facebook-instagram-time-well-spent/index.html…
How to Prevent High-Tech Cheating
High-tech cheating has become more difficult to stop than ever before, but our schools must find a way to put an end to it. What steps can schools take to start preventing high-tech cheating before it even happens? Here are …
Hey, Alexa, Should We Bring Virtual Assistants to Campus? These Colleges Gave Them a Shot
The Georgia Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Arizona State University last year provided students with Echo Dots, puck-shaped, voice-activated devices programmed to answer campus-specific questions about meal plans and business hours for campus buildings.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hey-Alexa-Should-We-Bring/244129…
How artificial intelligence could help teachers do a better job
In an experiment, researchers built an algorithmic teacher observer for analyzing the quality of instruction.
https://hechingerreport.org/how-artificial-intelligence-could-help-teachers-do-a-better-job/…
10 new features for going Back to School with Microsoft Teams
Thanks in huge part to the tireless work and feedback of teachers and students across the world, #MicrosoftEDU is thrilled to announce 10 fresh new features in Teams for the upcoming school year.
https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/back-to-school-microsoft-teams-new-features/…
A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be?
Open Access and the Benevolence of Multinational Corporations
As with much of its history the academic library is at a crossroads. The exploding budgets for journal subscriptions which are necessary to the living and breathing research institution is slowly strangling libraries.
https://acrlog.org/2018/08/08/open-access-and-the-benevolence-of-multinational-corporations/…
The 2017 national survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education: methodology and results
This article summarizes the process and results of the 2017 pan-Canadian survey on online learning. The main result: “Online learning and distance education were clearly alive and well in Canada in 2017.
https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-018-0112-3…
What your smart devices know (and share) about you
Presentation of the Week: How to harness disruptive innovation in education and training
Facial Recognition Technology Has No Place in Schools
That technology is already here. It is facial recognition technology, and its dangers are so great that it must be rejected entirely.
https://www.edtechstrategies.com/blog/big-brother-in-schools/…
GitHub Education Is Now Free For Classroom Use
GitHub has made more than a couple headlines in June, mostly in regard to Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of the internet’s most popular code sharing platform. This week, the company announced that it would make GitHub Education, a suite of …
It’s easier than you think to craft AI tools without typing a line of code
A lot of companies are trying to make it easier to use artificial intelligence, but few are making it as simple as Lobe. The startup, which launched earlier this year, offers users a clean drag-and-drop interface for building deep learning …