A neural portrait of the human mind
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Do students lose depth in digital reading?
Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? With the surge in popularity of e-books, online learning and open educational resources, investigators have been trying to determine whether students do as well when …
The Best Google Font Combinations That Look Good Together
Typography is an art and, with thousands of fonts available, it is obviously difficult for non-designers to find that perfect font combination. Need help? Here are some useful font pairing websites where type masters have already done the hard …
Universities are tracking their students. Is it clever or creepy?
Learning analytics are becoming increasingly popular for improving learning and cutting drop-out rates – but critics question the impact on privacy.
Students who play online games actually get better academic results
Despite the old stereotypes about video games rotting your brain, a new study provides the latest evidence to the contrary, with the data showing that gaming every day is linked to improvements in academic performance.
http://www.sciencealert.com/students-who-play-online-games-actually-get-better-academic-results…
LearnCloud: a crowdsourced library of free learning content
A crowdsourced library of free learning content where you can find, rate and share learning resources.
16 Ideas for Student Projects using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms
As you probably know, Google Drive is far more than a place to store files online. It also includes a suite of versatile creation tools, many of which perform the same functions as the ones we use in other …
10 Neat Ways to Create Beautiful Google Documents
With the aid of add-ons, voice typing, and templates, you can turn your Google office suite into a veritable online word-processing powerhouse. Here are some that will help you use some of that power to make your documents look …
The 10 Best EdTech Blogs for Teachers to Follow
These are rock-solid and trusted online edtech blogs that continue to be sources of inspiration for us. You’ll find organizations dedicated to talking about technology, as well as teachers from the trenches who are actually doing it.
How Screen Addiction Is Damaging Kids’ Brains
A new book out on August 9 called Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, one of the country’s top addiction experts, details how compulsive technology usage and reliance on screens can neurologically …
12 sci-fi technologies already changing the way we live
What cutting-edge technology can we expect to experience in our lives in the near future, and what will be developed next? To find out, I asked a group of entrepreneurs the following question: What’s the most futuristic technology we …
New Book Seeks To Inspire Teachers To Innovate In The Classroom
The new book “The ABCs of How We Learn” gives 26 approaches that can help students learn. The book is based on a course given at Stanford University.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/05/abcs-learning-theories-book…
The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t
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Presentation of the Week: The Role of Incremental and Transformative Change in Future Prediction
Artificial Intelligence And Big Data Are Transforming Online Learning
The robots are coming for education — tech will help instructors enhance the learning experience.