Rather than being the source of all of the notes for each class, I’m having students contribute to a OneNote Class Notebook. Two students per class are responsible for making sure that the class warm-up, practice problems, content and …
Presentation of the Week: Data Science Reinvents Learning?
Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school
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MIT’s newest 3D printer spouts 10 materials at a time
A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have debuted a novel solution that allows users to create more complex items in a fraction of the time and cost by printing up …
Software that helps to keep first-year students on track
All colleges help first-year students adapt, so they don’t get overwhelmed or drop out. A novel project at DCU uses data to predict performance and sends students helpful weekly emails.
100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom
The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your …
How to use Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud as your main storage
With firms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Dropbox offering gigabytes or even terabytes of online storage, sticking everything in the cloud is an appealing idea. But is it wise to put your important data in the cloud? Here …
How to download audio from any streaming video
In this article, we’ll show you how easy it is to download just the audio file from any streaming video and save it to your hard drive for offline listening.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2852325/how-to-download-audio-from-any-streaming-video.html…
9 Amazing Videos For you To Learn About Gamification in Education
Gamification in education is a fun way to involve and engage students in their studies. Not just students, gamification is education offers many good things to everyone. Check out the list of amazing videos about gamification and use of …
Taking Notes vs. Taking a Picture of Notes; Which Wins?
So one is easier and much less time consuming, and one seems to improve the ability to “retain” information and be able to share it back. So which one is better for learning?
5 Fantastic Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers
The tools below were chosen because they all offer something just a little bit different and can be a great way to add some variety to how you conduct your online assessments. All of them are free at the …
20 Cool Tools for Creating Infographics
Imagine if you could take 1,000 words a and help people digest that information in only a few seconds? An infographic, put simply, is a creative way to take a “thousand words” and depict them using a picture. These …
The MOOC revolution that wasn’t
Just a few short years after promising higher education for anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs have scaled back their ambitions, content to become job training for the tech sector and for students who already have college degrees
How will edtech affect the teacher’s role in the classroom?
Elliot-Kelly is on a journey to change the way that education is delivered in the classroom. What is the role of the teacher within that though?
https://www.hottopics.ht/stories/education/how-tech-will-affect-the-teachers-role-in-education/…
How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions
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