The fourth edition of Moodle Day, which can now be considered a kind of annual tradition was made possible by a grant from the Entente Canada-Québec (and the dynamic nature of the Moodle community). The event, which was held at …
How To Actually Be More Productive, By The Guy Who Designed Facebook’s Productivity Tool
Here are the tips that I’ve found essential to my creative output. Each tip relates to optimizing one of three areas: your environment, your mind, and your process.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/productivity-tips-asana-facebook_n_7302766.html…
Gates Foundation Launches ‘Teachers Know Best’ Site for Ed-Tech Entrepreneurs
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this week launched Teachers Know Best, a new website for companies that want to know what educators are looking for in digital resources
The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators
These web tool can save you a lot of daily hassles that you might not even realize you have been tolerating. Whether you want to move the class newsletter online or try out a flipped classroom, we’re sharing the …
The Online Paradox at Community Colleges
Students more likely to fail online classes, but finish their degrees if they take them.
http://hechingerreport.org/the-online-paradox-at-community-colleges/
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Presentation of the Week: Pedagogy and School Leadership – Developing Agile Approaches in a Digital Age
My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
Free Augmented Reality app for education
The first free augmented reality (AR) app for universities has been launched by AR agency, Campus Interactive.
http://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/free-augmented-reality-app-for-education…
How Technology is Transforming Homework and Classrooms
Technology has changed the way we operate in our day-to-day lives. The classroom has not been exempt from changes in technology.To learn more about how technology is transforming the classroom, checkout the infographic below created by the University of …
Facebook knows even more about you than you realize
To paint a picture of just how much information Facebook has managed to get out of me over the past eight years, I’ve dug deep into my profile history and mined as much as possible. The results surprised even …
Sir Ken Robinson: ‘The education system is a dangerous myth’
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Sir Ken Robinson argues that our approach to teaching is wrong – and hundreds of years out of date.
The World’s First $9 Computer Coming to Kickstarter
C.H.I.P. is a computer. It’s tiny and easy to use. C.H.I.P. does computer things. Work in LibreOffice and save your documents to C.H.I.P.’s onboard storage. Surf the web and check your email over wifi. Play games with a bluetooth controller. …
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.…
10 Edtech Tools Teachers Can Use Tomorrow (Literally)
When recommending digital tools to teachers, I often lean towards those which can be integrated almost immediately. Educators want to focus on pedagogy and student learning, very few wish to spend time teaching the technology.
https://jennscheffer.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/10-edtech-tools-teachers-can-use-tomorrow-literally/…
New McGraw-Hill Education Research Finds More than 80 Percent of Students Use Mobile Technology to Study
Company’s second annual report on digital study trends in higher education finds that college students’ use of mobile use for studying has jumped 40 percent since 2013.