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My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
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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extract from his new book, Sir Ken Robinson argues that our approach to teaching is wrong – and hundreds of years out of date.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.
How do you measure the ‘success’ of a MOOC?
Here’s a few thoughts I’ve had based on my experiences as a learner on MOOCs and as part of a team developing and delivering 4 FutureLearn MOOCs now.
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/how-do-you-measure-the-success-of-a-mooc/…
12 Easy to Follow Tips for Moodle Quiz Creation
Quiz is one of the most popular – and powerful activities in Moodle. Alongside its many standard features, there are over 80 Quiz plugins allowing you to customise it to your needs.
http://moodle.com/12-easy-follow-tips-moodle-quiz-creation/…
Stanford Study Shows Dramatic Math Improvement From Playing Video Games Just 10 Minutes Per Day
Third graders played for just 10 minutes per day, 3 days a week, for four weeks. The comparison group’s class received the same materials and the same instruction, but didn’t play the game. The result of playing was a …
The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
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