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In many classrooms, teachers don’t start realizing internet home access challenges until October or November when online work for specific students is spotty or non-existent.   It is easy to assume (like I did) that students were not just academically inclined …

The Best Teacher Youtube Channels selected from thousands of Teacher channels on youtube and ranked based on youtube channel subscribers and popularity.

https://blog.feedspot.com/teacher_youtube_channels/…

You’ve probably heard the term “machine learning” quite a bit — basically, it refers to training computers to learn without directly programming them. To help us wrap our minds around these ideas, Google created Teachable Machine, a web tool that …

Becky Willis is the VP of Enterprise Engagement at EdCast. Based on Becky’s background and experiences, in this interview, she provides a good understanding of what the next generation learning platform looks like.

http://www.webcourseworks.com/next-generation-learning-platform/…

Video in the classroom is powerful, because it has the ability to make the classroom come alive, and make meaningful learning experiences and connections. Video allows you to deliver long-lasting images, and reach children with various learning styles. But how …

The next wave of educational technology innovation must get the faculty on board and make them central to institutions’ and companies’ strategies, Mike Silagadze argues.

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/10/11/next-wave-ed-tech-innovation-must-put-professors-drivers-seat…

Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/10/cengage-offers-new-oer-based-product-general-education-courses…

To enable us comprehend what’s hot and so forth, Forrester published a TechRadar report regarding Artificial Intelligence (for application development experts), a detailed breakdown of 13 techs companies ought to consider integrating to help human decision-making. In view of Forrester’s …

We’ve all been there: a frantic search for a document you know you saved but just can’t find. It’s been deleted, but you’re sure that you didn’t do it — at least on purpose. But fear not, Microsoft Word has …

University lecturers are topping up their earnings by helping students cheat in their degree, a government-backed review will suggest.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/10/07/university-lecturers-topping-earnings-helping-students-cheat/…

It’s not just HDDs that are getting larger, SSDs and magnetic tape is as well. Samsung announced up to 128 TB SSDs available by 2018 with its latest generation of V-NAND flash memory and LTO capacities of over 10 TB …

So, apparently a team of Georgia Tech graduate teaching assistants working IBM’s Watson platform managed to produce a glorified interactive FAQ for their 300-person online “artificial intelligence” course and now we can look forward to a future without teachers.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/our-teacher-free-future…

What do we value more in our classrooms, enduring learning or a classroom full of compliant, high scoring children who only value grades?

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2017/10/make_school_about_learning_not.html…