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Artificially intelligent software is replacing the textbook—and reshaping American education.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/10/adaptive_learning_software_is_replacing_textbooks_and_upending_american.single.html…

Mobile technology has potential to change the student-teacher dynamic for the better but only if implemented correctly. Here are a few ways I think all teachers can benefit from smart mobile technology use.

http://www.theedadvocate.org/3-ways-mobile-technology-boosts-instruction/…

You can add Google Drive to Microsoft Office now. It can save you time, particularly if you’re saving files in Office formats inside Google Drive. I’ve tested the setup. Here’s a screencast to get started. Set up is quick, …

This article is focused on the pros and the cons of learning trends, and the ultimate impact they might have on education, and society at large. Note that all of these pieces are necessarily speculative, presented to hopefully promote …

Setting out the responsibilities of educational institutions to ensure that learning analytics is carried out responsibly, appropriately and effectively.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/code-of-practice-for-learning-analytics…

To help you learn and refresh your memory about some of the leading learning theories in educational literature,  we are sharing with you this excellent resource from Instructional Design that features over 50  learning theories. Each theory comes with …

We have seen a lot of advancement in education technology designed for the classroom, and to be effective, teachers need to stay abreast of these new technologies and concepts.   Here, I will discuss ten education technologies and concepts that …

Emojipedia is an emoji reference website created by Jeremy Burge in 2013. The Emojipedia website documents changes to emoji symbols and their meanings in the Unicode Standard.

http://emojipedia.org/…

We took dozens of note-taking apps for a test drive in order to separate the must-try options from the weak ones. First, you’ll find full-featured note-taking apps, including Evernote, OneNote, and Simplenote—the popular notebook apps that can save everything. …

Artificially intelligent software is replacing the textbook—and reshaping American education.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/10/adaptive_learning_software_is_replacing_textbooks_and_upending_american.html…

Taking advantage of social media as a learning platform is a new idea that has been met with some great success thus far. Here are three ways teachers use social media to engage students.

http://www.brilliant-insane.com/2015/05/3-ways-teachers-are-using-social-media-to-engage-students.html…

This working paper discusses the threats to individual privacy simultaneously posed by technology and the propensity of large institutions (government, academic, and corporate) and smaller “bad actors” to conduct surveillance on individuals. These threats are substantial and could undermine …

Flippity provides a handful of great Google Sheets templates. The latest Flippity template that I’ve tried is their Progress Indicator template. With that template you can create a progress chart that will update whenever you update the data in …