To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of …
An Interview with Sarah Lalonde
This interview with student teacher Sarah Lalonde gives us some insight into the current state of teacher development today.
https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/an-interview-with-sarah-lalonde/…
Presentation of the Week: Trends in the Future of Learning
The search for “aha!” moments
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7 No-Stress Tech Tools to Make Teaching a Bit Easier
Teachers often find themselves under a volley of technology: “Use this! Try that!”
Sometimes, figuring out a new tool is merely another stressor. But every so often, practical, simple, and timesaving tools come along. These platforms and apps make my …
In Just 4 Hours, Google’s AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History
In a new paper, Google researchers detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, developed “superhuman performance” in chess, taking just four hours to learn the rules before obliterating the world champion chess program, Stockfish.
Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized
A great selection of tools selected by Harvard students so you can collaborate more efficiently and stay organized.
Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology
Today, schools across the country look to educators to customize learning for their unique classrooms. Here is how educators are accomplishing this through unbundling and BYOD.
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/11/20/textbooks-unbundling-byod/…
How Canada has emerged as a leader in artificial intelligence
Academics, industry and government have joined together, setting the stage for Canada to become a research and development powerhouse in AI.
Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook launch new deep learning toolkit
Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have announced the release of a neural network platform that allows deep learning frameworks to interoperate. It’s designed to make machine learning more accessible by letting developers mix and match different models.
These Technologies Will Shape The Future, According To One Of Silicon Valley’s Top VC Firms
Andreessen Horowitz analyst Benedict Evans explains how AI, mixed-reality, cryptocurrencies, and autonomy will play out over the next 10 years.
Storytelling Is Not Lecturing; Lecturing is Not Storytelling
Your brain on story is different than your brain when it is receiving any other form of information, including straight facts and data. The threads of stories that we read, hear, watch, and click on affect us intrinsically. And tempt …
Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart
Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth, expressed regret for his part in building tools that destroy ‘the social fabric of how society works’.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart…
Apple Classroom vs. Google Classroom
Apple Classroom was released in March 2016, but from things I read online, or hear when talking to other educators, I feel that it still gets mistakenly compared to Google Classroom. In this post, I wanted to take some time …
Citation metrics are making headlines, but what does citation really mean?
It would probably come as a surprise to most researchers, working with assumption that citation counts as the one true measure of research excellence, that there is no accepted theory of what it is we are doing when we reference …