I wanted to know what would happen if I suddenly gave up my smartphone – whether I’d feel better or worse, more productive or less capable of doing my job. Like so many others, I’d treated my phone as a …
This PC to phone transfer method is so easy — why didn’t anyone tell me about it?
Forget Google Drive, USB-C cables, flash drives and labyrinthine third-party apps! There’s a much easier way to transfer photos, documents, and videos from your PC to phone — it’s a wireless, lightning-fast method, too.
Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine
An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.
School 2.0: How has the pandemic changed learning?
Over the past three pandemic-interrupted school years, as educators scrambled to respond to the greatest disruption to schooling in over a century, a common refrain emerged: Don’t return to the way things were.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0922/School-2.0-How-has-the-pandemic-changed-learning…
8 Free Alternatives to Photoshop Everyone Should Try At Least Once
Don’t want to pay for Photoshop, or don’t like it? Try these alternatives that come at no cost.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-alternatives-photoshop/
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Back to School: Five Books on Education
The rapid pivot to online education following the outbreak of COVID-19 has meant universities and other schools around the world were suddenly leaning heavily on educational technology to facilitate remote lectures and exams. Resources for teaching online are still in …
YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
A Mozilla report found feedback buttons didn’t stop the majority of similar recommendations.
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The Future of Learning Technology: 10 Key Tools and Methods
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system in Canada and around the world received an unexpected shock as schools, colleges and universities closed and people began working and learning from home. As faculty, instructors, students, administrators, policy-makers …
The best education apps on Android in 2022
What makes increasing your knowledge even easier is that you can do so from anywhere using your smartphone, tablet, or even a Chromebook that can run Android apps. The various education chosen for today’s roundup proves that learning new things …
How to Make Word Clouds Using the Word Art Online Tool
Making word clouds doesn’t have to be time-consuming, the Word Art word cloud generator does the work for you. Here’s all you need to do.
https://www.makeuseof.com/word-art-how-to-make-word-clouds/…
What’s the point of NFT in education and why should teachers care?
The creation and use of NFTs or (non-fungible tokens) are popular topics of emerging technologies. How will NFTs be used in the world of work and, more importantly for us, in education? What do we need to know to help …
Blooklet- Enhance Classroom Engagement Using Games
Blooket is a game-based learning platform that allows teachers to create educational games to share with students. You can host live games that students can play using a generated ID or assign games as homework for students to play at …
Moodle Gains Text-to-Speech Integration
Students using the Moodle learning platform can now listen to learning content in more than 50 languages, thanks to a new integration with digital voice and text-to-speech tool ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker is the first text-to-speech provider to become a Certified Integration …
Top 10 educational iOS apps that collect the most personal dataTop 10 educational iOS apps that collect the most personal data
On average, one educational application for iOS harvests data across more than 8 data segments, such as name, email, phone number and more.
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The Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset” book, for your whole team or school
In Educational Duct Tape, classroom teacher and edtech expert Jake Miller equips you to overcome the paradox of choice and select the right edtech tools for your classroom so you can start using them tomorrow.
https://jakemiller.net/get-the-educational-duct-tape-an-edtech-integration-mindset-book-in-bulk/
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