The use of educational technology products in schools has risen dramatically over the last two years, and teachers have stepped out of their comfort zones to use those products to engage their students. But there’s a wide range of skills …
Using AI to Restore Old Photos Actually Works
It’s absolutely mind-blowing how much artificial intelligence has come to play a central role in photography. There’s the presence of it in everyday usage in smartphones, with things like portrait mode and night sight, but now, even more powerful tools …
Digital Technology to Facilitate Project-Based Learning
Whether in face-to-face or online teaching contexts, Rubén, Marie-Noëlle and I are constantly looking for new strategies to engage our students in their learning. One approach that we have been using for several years now is to propose motivating projects …
5 Mental Models That Will Turn You Into an Ultralearner
Radically speed up how fast you learn by mastering a few powerful, flexible ideas.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/5-mental-models-that-will-turn-you-into-an-ultralearner.html…
Is Cloud Application Control the silver lining that any next-gen web security solution needs?
The proliferation of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) within the modern business environment was as much a matter of timing as anything else.
Can Analyzing Clicks in Digital Systems Predict Which Students Are Struggling? It Depends.
Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class? That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week. And the mixed results surprised the scholars working on it.
We need to get online learning right before the next crisis hits
Classrooms this month feel more like the days before the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools and universities across Canada ditch mass testing, universal masking, screening forms and vaccination campaigns, they’re also ditching online learning. They’re abandoning it even though there are …
University researchers are helping to create a Canadian guide for social connection
The initiative, spearheaded by non-profit GenWell, aims to offer easy-to-use information for building stronger social bonds.
DALL-E 2 on Microsoft Azure: the market for generative models matures
DALL-E 2 is one of several text-to-image generative models that have made the rounds this year. DALL-E takes a textual description as input and generates an image that fits the description. DALL-E’s results are so impressive that many organizations and …
Microsoft launches Designer, its answer to highly valued startup Canva
Microsoft is launching a simple graphic design app called Designer that will be available for free and as part of Office productivity software subscriptions, the company said Wednesday. The software represents an alternative to Canva, a design app boasting more …
Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are
Essays written by AI language tools like OpenAI’s Playground are often hard to tell apart from text written by humans.
Microsoft partners with Meta to bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR
Both companies announced they are partnering to collaborate on how people will work and even game in virtual reality. That starts with Microsoft bringing its biggest services — Teams, Office, Windows, and even Xbox Cloud Gaming — to Meta’s Quest …
Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students
The purpose of this post is to provide researchers, students, educators, teachers (and anyone else frustrated with paywall restriction to human knowledge) with a set of open access journals and websites for free scholarly articles and research papers.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2022/10/best-open-access-journals-and-scholarly.html…
7 Ways to Remember What You Learn From Podcasts
Use these tips to never forget about something cool you learned from a podcast.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-remember-what-you-learn-podcasts/
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Google’s AI editing tricks are making Photoshop irrelevant for most people
Just like 90s Photoshop, Google’s tricks are opening up image manipulation to a wider audience, while challenging our definition of what a photo actually is.