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Young people are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes, according to an annual survey tracking children’s media behaviour in the UK.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35399658…

Kinvolved is an app that lets teachers take each student’s attendance with the swipe of a finger. Teachers can customize lateness alerts to include the number of class minutes missed. (The school does not copy students on these messages.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/technology/an-app-helps-teachers-track-student-attendance.html…

Higher education practitioners in British Columbia have built and are sustaining an Open Practice community, but it hasn’t been a straight-line development process over the past 13 years, nor has it been completely planned and there have been many …

The annual tech-fest known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place Jan. 6- 9 in Las Vegas, and companies new and old have already unveiled their latest bells and whistles. Here are 10 newly introduced products with the …

With a generous bit of literary license, we can borrow from Sir Isaac and posit that in terms of student outcomes, Achievement equals Quality Instruction times Innovation (A = QI x I).

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-04-newton-s-new-law-of-teaching-when-quality-instruction-and-technology-intersect…

There are five changes occurring in pedagogy as a result of the prevalence of technology that are having a significant impact on post-secondary education.

http://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/how-teach-online-student-success/five-ways-online-learning-enabling-change-post-secondary-education…

A growing number of schools and nonprofits are building their first online courses. If you’re considering migrating your professional development program, curriculum, or training online, you’ll quickly be asking: “What platform should we use?”

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-10-how-to-choose-the-right-tools-for-your-online-course…

Some of the things you can do with these web tools include: creating different types of diagrams (e.g flowcharts and organizational charts), solve math problems, build and share word searches online, convert/compress and share video files and more!

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/6-new-edtech-tools-for-teachers.html…

The Open Education Trend Report 2015 describes the trends in open and online education in the Netherlands and abroad from the perspective of Dutch higher education in nine articles by Dutch open and online education experts and eight brief …

Computer vision now a part of everyday life. Facebook recognizes faces in the photos you post to the popular social network. All of this “seeing” stems from a remarkably effective breed of artificial intelligence called deep learning. But as far …

Recent labour market analysis by the Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), building on previous work by Statistics Canada, paints a grim picture relevant to our concerns youth underemployment.

https://theconversation.com/young-educated-and-underemployed-are-we-building-a-nation-of-phd-baristas-53104…

With each new year come new promises of technology disruptions in higher education. In 2015, we saw  record investment in edtech; and competency-based education programs gained momentum with colleges and universities. What changes will 2016 bring?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-19-4-trends-shaping-higher-education-in-2016…

Forget overpriced schools, long days in a crowded classroom, and pitifully poor results. These websites and apps cover myriads of science, art, and technology topics. They will teach you practically anything, most of them for free.

https://medium.com/life-learning/the-37-best-websites-to-learn-something-new-895e2cb0cad4…