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Google Expeditions, a virtual reality system for the classroom, is now being offered to select schools for free as part of Google’s pilot launch of its Expeditions Pioneer Program. The field trip simulation system is part of Google’s objectives to …

Through understanding how students’ brains actually work and using that knowledge to benefit classroom learning, we may be able to positively influence classroom education and prepare students to better face unknowable futures. Here are nine scientific insights that educators …

There is another great resource for ensuring students are getting it as they watch. This tool gives teachers the ability to add explanations during videos while individual students watch at their own pace. This free tool, EDpuzzle, is a …

Creating videos is a process that students enjoy because the final product is something that they can share with a potentially large audience. Teachers like video projects because students get engaged in developing and sharing their best work. See …

Just providing teachers with an organizational tool, such as an LMS, will not lead to transformative practices. Teachers need on-going support if they are to truly transform their classrooms into ecosystems for digital age learning.

http://byotnetwork.com/2015/09/08/digital-vs-digitized-learning/…

How do you keep face-to-face conversation alive in your family and among your friends? What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?_r=0…

Following are 8 examples of the SAMR process, each taking an example of a typical classroom exercise that does not use technology and walking it through each phase of SAMR.

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transforming-lessons-through-samr/…

These examples demonstrate how networked sensors are already benefiting multiple industries.

http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2015/08/5-great-ways-use-internet-things…

With the convenience of cloud storage, USB flash drives might seem like old news, but the best are portable, fast, near-indestructible, and offer tons of space—enough that they’re worth having. This week we’re looking at five of the best, …

This article will show you Google Drive’s awesomeness, and will convince you that you need to be using Google Drive and its tools not just for yourself, but with your students as well.

http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/google-drive-for-students/…

With the help of web technologies, you can use a wide variety of web tools with students to provide them with an outlet through which they can express their voices. Here are some examples to try :

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/09/some-excellent-web-tools-to-give-students-a-voice-in-class.html…

Instead of going in and writing programs that solve the problems, we write programs that learn to solve the problems from examples,” Mr. Olah says about machine learning and his research at Google.

http://observer.com/2015/09/google-releases-video-about-their-machine-learning-research/…