A university is to monitor the social media posts of its students in a bid to gauge the mental well-being and general happiness of its students. The University of Buckingham is planning on introducing the measure as part of …
Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
The way the educational system treats the privacy of students is undergoing profound changes—often without their parents’ notice or consent, and usually without a real choice to opt out of privacy-invading technology.
https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy…
TED Cinema Experience in Montreal
Once a year, the world’s most powerful ideas are shared live on the TED stage in Vancouver. Now you can take a front-row seat and watch talks from the TED Conference in a special broadcast for cinemas. And Montreal …
Export Quizzes from Google Docs to Google Forms with Formenate
We have found an add-on that can help alleviate some of the time it takes to create surveys or quizzes. Although in its current form, it does not allow you to import question sets (from Docs, or Word docs, …
Mark Zuckerberg: The end of smartphones and TVs is coming
At this year’s F8 conference, taking place this week, Zuckerberg doubled down on the company’s ambitious 10-year master plan, which was first revealed in 2016. According to this timeline, Facebook expects to turn artificial intelligence, ubiquitous internet connectivity, and …
There Are No New Social Networks
There’s the big five — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat — and then a series of fringe social media services unable to break through with invention. Why are we stuck in a cycle of sameness?
https://theringer.com/social-media-invention-facebook-twitter-snapchat-tech-e40178df183…
Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right.
Despite that fact that most college students do a majority of their socializing and school work electronically, many still like to read from actual hard copy printed books.
Creative Google Slides Uses for Students
See below for the recorded video where we talk about loads of creative ways students can use Google Slides, as well as other tech topics that came up in the process. You will also find links to all of …
The key to growth? Race with the machines
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Presentation of the Week: Ways of seeing learning – Learning Analytics for Learners
MIT’s WaitSuite Uses Clever Interaction Design To Make You Smarter
By harnessing moments where you’re waiting–from Instagram to Gchat–these apps help you make a habit of learning.
How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing
We’re setting up a lemonade stand right next to the publishers’ lemonade stand,” says Mr. Priem. “They’re charging $30 for a glass of lemonade, and we’re showing up right next to them and saying, ‘Lemonade for free’. It’s such …
The apps to use if you want to keep your messages private
There are ways to protect your private communications, and many consumer tech companies are starting to offer better encryption so that your personal messages won’t fall into the wrong hands. What products should you be using to enhance your …
Understanding Classrooms through Social Network Analysis: A Primer for Social Network Analysis in Education Research
This paper contains good practical advice for people who want to apply SNA in their own educational research (for example, recognizing and dealing with survey fatigue). It also describes how to test for specific hypotheses, for example, whether there …
New machine learning models can detect hate speech and violence from texts
The words we use and our writing styles can reveal information about our preferences, thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Using this information, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland has developed machine learning models that can detect antisocial …