How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win
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Microsoft HoloLens: A Sensational Vision of the PC’s Future
HoloLens is a significantly different experience from using Glass. Whereas Google’s system mostly keeps the digital images out of your field of vision and is thus more suited to be used in public, the HoloLens immerses you more deeply in …
Are we getting closer to having a real universal translator?
We asked Roland Kuhn, the Statistical Machine Translation lead at the National Research Council Canada, to weigh in on the future of machine translation and speech recognition.
Gaming in Education: Gamification?
Gamifying the classroom might be a way to improve engagement, productivity and enthusiasm for what the teacher has to say?
http://www.theedublogger.com/2015/01/20/gaming-in-education-gamification/
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Best EdTech Websites of 2014
Because it was just too hard to pick only 10, here are 14 fantastic edtech websites we reviewed this year. How about that — 14 for 2014!
https://www.graphite.org/blog/best-edtech-websites-of-2014
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New Microsoft Office 365 open source integration with Moodle transforms education technology
The integration brings a more productive experience to teachers and students by harmonizing login credentials, calendar management and course content creation, in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users.
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Amazon launches Kindle Textbook Creator to help schools turn PDFs into digital books
Amazon has unveiled a new program designed to help educational establishments and authors produce ebooks for students.
What is Google Classroom? (video)
If you’ve been wondering what Google Classroom is (or is NOT), this video from Amy Mayer is for you! Should you get ready for implementation? Can you replace your current system with Classroom? This video will help you answer those …
27 Ways to Inspire Students to Innovate (Infographic)
The infographic shows ways to inspire students to think more deeply about how innovation applies to them. It’s a helpful way to begin a conversation about what it means to innovate, a word that sometimes seems to belong in the …
Google Drive: Managing Files in Multiple Folders
The new Google Drive has a slightly different interface. Rather than single clicking to open a file, you double click. Single click now allows you to select a file and utilize a toolbar or keyboard shortcuts to do things to …
Seeking the unique pedagogical characteristics of social media
Social media are still in a very volatile state of development, and many faculty worry about the negative aspects of students who are continually ‘on’ or obsessed with social media. At the same time, there are exciting developments and future …
The 5 Best Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
These five plagiarism detection tools were all created with instructors in mind. Some are only available if purchased by an institution, but others can be accessed by anyone.
http://www.edudemic.com/the-5-best-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-educators/
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Presentation of the Week: Why Wearable Technology Will Change Learning Forever
Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
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16 of the Best Blended Learning Resources
Blended learning uses both in-person and online methods to teach students, and there are several different models for implementing it in the classroom. These resources explain the basics of blended learning, but they also dig deeper and can help you …