It’s super funny that Alexa can’t understand my mom — until we need Alexa to use the web, drive a car, and do pretty much anything else.
What’s Next for Education: 3 big mindset shifts for education
Angela Maiers wants us all to know that we matter. The author, speaker, and education thought leader is leading an entire movement—Choose 2 Matter—intended to do just that. In this installment of “What’s Next for Education,” three mindset shifts …
Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science
Google Scholar’s coverage of high-quality publications is more comprehensive in many areas, including in the social sciences and humanities, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and non-English language publications.
Presentation of the Week: Intro to Open Source Hardware (OSHW)
What we learn before we’re born
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Best Practices for Improving Online Courses Using Student Feedback
To create successively improved iterations of a course, you need know what’s missing or lacking from the current version. The best method for doing this is to solicit student feedback from past courses, and then use that feedback to …
Google Classroom: Now open to even more learners
Google just announced that they are opening up Google Classroom to users without G Suite for Education accounts. You could only use Classroom with people from your own school so far, but from now on schools will be allowed to …
Microlearning: What It Is Not and What It Should Be
Microlearning may not be an optimal solution for complex tasks in workplace learning, but its nature seems well aligned with learner-centered models such as personal learning plans and professional development interests. Finally, like most learning strategies, microlearning fits well …
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
Here’s a message from the web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to ensure it fulfils his vision of an equalising platform that benefits all of humanity.
Microsoft’s first-ever desktop PC blows away the Mac
It’s tempting to compare the Surface Studio to Apple’s iMac all-in-one PCs. They do share a certain design sensibility. But, in my opinion, the Surface Studio is so much more.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-studio-review-2017-3…
Updated Differentiation with Google Forms!
One of my favorite features allows us to differentiate a form for students, meaning we can send students to different questions and pages of information based on how they answer each question.
http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/shut-the-front-door-digital-differentiation-with-google-forms/…
10 Ways That Professors Can Use Social Media
Not only will taking advantage of social media help reduce the amount of paper used, but it will also benefit both the professor and the class. By doing so, professors can create a learning environment that becomes an advantage …
How Technology Can Benefit Physical Education Classes
Being part of the Ed Tech movement doesn’t stop once you enter the school gymnasium. Here’s how applying modern technology can benefit students and enhance cross-curricular engagement.
http://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-technology-can-benefit-physical-education-classes/…
How this Opera co-founder is building a browser to replace all the browsers out there
Tetzchner says most of the browsers today try to be as easy to use as possible for the “average user”. This means that any functionality that is not being used widely gets axed. However, in his own honest opinion, …
Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning
Garnet Valley is one of a handful of Philadelphia-area districts, and three in northern New Jersey, that are in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web.