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Will my battery harm itself if the laptop is plugged in all time? It is one of the most searched battery-related questions on the internet. Some of you might be surprised to know that there’s nothing like “overcharging” a …

Newsela, a 3-year-old startup that promotes literacy in K-12 education, gives teachers curated news articles to share with their students. With the help of intelligent software that adjusts article text to match a student’s reading level, teachers can use …

Things move fast in the edtech world, and we hear all the time from teachers how hard it can be to keep up. This is why we’ve created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz …

Here are eight great activities and tools to foster an environment of collaboration in your classroom.

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2016/09/12/8-fun-ways-to-help-your-students-collaborate-in-the-classroom…

Could a robot do your job? Millions of people who didn’t see automation coming will soon find out the painful way. The answer is a resounding yes.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/jobs-of-future-and-skills-you-need/…

“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” – Elon Musk

http://teacherrebootcamp.com/2016/09/11/feedbackscreencasting/…

As companies increasingly seek to update and modernize their digital workplace, along with the supporting skills their workers, they frequently struggle to determine what an effective organizing principle should be.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-the-organizing-principle-of-todays-digital-workplace/…

Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation. At Harvard a few years ago, a professor complained that the most common grade was an A-. He was quickly corrected: The most common grade …

New income and expenditure data on Canadian universities came out over the summer courtesy of StatsCan and our friends over at the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO), so today it’s time to check in on what the latest …

To ban or not to ban, that is always the question when it comes to personal devices in the classroom.  While pushing students to learn outside our classrooms is a step in the right direction, how do we ensure …

Years ago, in an interview, Steve Jobs told the world what courage means for Apple. He called it a quality that allows Apple to choose right technologies for its products and users. He also said that if the customers …

According to researchers, a new computer based brain training program helps improve a child’s performance in math and reading.

http://neurosciencenews.com/video-game-learning-5013/…

Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/…