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With so much information swirling around us, we feel the need to answer with superficial and uninformed opinions instead of cultivating deep understanding. We’d rather have any answer than say ‘I don’t know’.

http://blog.crew.co/cultivating-wisdom/…

The college classroom has been impenetrable for those seeking to understand how students learn. Education technology has changed that. Colleges now have access to a growing set of data about how students interact with—and learn from—the artifacts of their …

Dell’s newest P4317Q can run as a single monitor at 3840×2160, its real strength is as a bezel-less option to display up to four separate desktops, each at 1080p.

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/229058-dell-unveils-43-inch-4k-monitor-that-can-split-into-four-independent-1080p-panels…

Facebook Pages is a feature in Facebook that allows you to create a virtual space for any sort of purpose you want. As a teacher you can use this service to create an online hub for you students.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/05/a-step-by-step-guide-to-help-teachers.htm…

Extensions also help teachers accomplish many time consuming tasks faster, such as grading, assessment, providing feedback, research, creating lesson plans and more. A majority of these are for Google Chrome.

http://teacherrebootcamp.com/2016/05/21/extensionsforstrugglingstudents/…

By 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data will increase by a thousandfold, reaching a staggering 44 zettabytes of data. The only logical response to this data deluge is to create more ways to store and maximize all …

Flash is dying a slow death and different tech giants are giving it severe blows from time-to-time. Along the similar paths, Google has detailed its plans to kill Flash by blocking the most content on its Chrome web browser. …

Under proposed changes to the UK’s university education system, companies such as Google and Facebook could be allowed to set up their own academic institutions in the country capable of awarding degrees.

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2016/05/16/facebook-google-allowed-award-university-degrees-uk…

This integration with Google Drive means that you can add more context to your notes by adding  relevant content from Google Drive such as documents, drawings, images and many more.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/05/new-evernote-is-now-integrated-with.html…

This in-depth tutorial will tell you almost every single possible way to check and increase your internet connection speed. And, this article should be able to provide solutions like making the Wi-Fi speed faster and increasing the internet connection …

We wanted to build a better group sharing experience, so we made a new app called Spaces that lets people get people together instantly to share around any topic. With Spaces, it’s simple to find and share articles, videos …

Here are a few ideas as a kind of quick overview, with general summaries for each. I’ve added “tags” for each domain so that we can begin to see how existing and emerging initiatives (e.g., personalized learning), trends (e.g., …