Here are ten characteristics that I am exploring and starting to see as crucial for educators in the 21st century and beyond, as we continue to live in a world that is continuously changing, and moving at tremendously fast speeds.…
30 Hidden Chrome Features That Will Make Your Life Easier
While Chrome’s abilities multiply greatly when you consider the near-bottomless library of extensions, there’s a bounty of stock functionality embedded all throughout Chrome’s guts that you may not even know about. Click through our slideshow for a list of …
The Easy Way to Make Your House or Apartment a Smart Home
Whether it’s lighting, cleaning or temperature control, there are lots of ways to start automating your home and connecting the devices you use most frequently. Here are our top smart devices to help turn any home into a smarter …
Best note-taking apps
Think about the number of notes you take on a daily or weekly basis. In everything from listening to podcasts, sitting in meetings, quickly scrawling something on a sticky note so you don’t forget, or taking inventory of the …
The Open-Source Group Trying To “De-Google” The Internet
How can we surf the web without using Google, Amazon or Facebook? French group Framasoft, which promotes the use of open-source software, offers a way.
5 Strategies for Remembering Everything you Learn
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge: Knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming and Knowledge about how learning actually works.
http://www.businessinsider.com/remember-everything-you-learn-2016-10…
Presentation of the Week: Deep Learning – The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
What reality are you creating for yourself?
MySimpleShow Adds a Convenient New Way to Create Flipped Video Lessons
MySimpleShow is a great tool for creating explanatory videos. Students have to create a script in order to produce a video through MySimpleShow. MySimpleShow just introduced a new option for creating and using scripts in the production of videos. …
5 Classroom Management Tips for Technology Integration
I would love to tell you that technology integrates itself, but it doesn’t. There are no technology faeries that come into your classroom to plug all the wires into the right places, create interesting videos for lessons or keeps …
The 14 most innovative schools in the world
Innovation in education can take lots of forms, like incorporating new technology or teaching methods, going on field trips, rejecting social norms, or partnering with the local community. See what the future of education can, and probably should, look …
5 Excellent TED Talks Every Teacher Should Watch
TED talks are invaluable resources for teachers professional development. Throughout the year we have been sharing with you some interesting talks from renowned speakers and educators and today we have had a look back at those talks and picked …
21 Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs
Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can …
5 student opinions about higher education you should know
Today’s student opinions reveal what they really think about online learning, digital resources and much more.
http://www.ecampusnews.com/campus-administration/student-opinions-education/…
10 creative alternatives to research reports and papers
Research reports and papers have been around a long time. They haven’t evolved much. Here are 10 ways to make them more relevant.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/11/09/10-creative-alternatives-to-research-reports-and-papers/…