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 earnings by helping students cheat, review suggests
University lecturers are topping up their earnings by helping students cheat in their degree, a government-backed review will suggest.
How Big Can Storage Devices Get?
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 …
Our Teacher-Free Future?
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…
Make School About Learning, Not About Grades
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…
Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology
“Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. “We wanted to find all the studies and distill the main lessons so that decision makers can …
How Communities of Inquiry Drive Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Terry Anderson revisits the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model and looks at some more recent suggestions for extensions and revisions in this paper produced for Contact North in advance of the upcoming World Conference in Distance Learning.
What every teacher should know about … memory
In a new series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: a project on long-term memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/06/what-every-teacher-should-know-about-memory…
Introducing Education Resources, a source of Open Educational Resources within Office 365
Today we are launching the pilot between Open Up Resources and Microsoft Education. Open Up Resources is a nonprofit working to develop the highest quality full-course OER curricula, Common Core aligned, and provided for free to promote instructional equity.
10 Characteristics of Learner Centered Experiences
Education Reimagined defines the paradigm shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered as shifting how we see learners and their critical role in their own learning now, and throughout their lives.
https://katielmartin.com/2017/10/07/10-characteristics-of-learner-centered-experiences/…
Presentation of the Week: How to Manage a Classroom using the BYOD Approach
The puzzle of motivation
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Book Review: We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
In We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, John Cheney-Lippoldexamines how algorithms increasingly interpret and influence our behaviour. With the author concluding with some pragmatic suggestions for challenging the digital status quo, Daniel Zwiwelcomes the book …
How My Students Use Adobe Spark Page to Create Online Presentations
Spark is a FREE three-part tool: Post allows users to create social media graphics (i.e. memes, inspirational quotes); Video allows users to create animated videos (complete with options for music and/or narration with images in motion); and Page allows users …
Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017
The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017 (11th Annual Survey) has been compiled by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies from the votes of 2,174 learning professionals worldwide.