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On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a host of new products including Astro, a mobile Alexa robot that can capture every detail of your home’s layout, follow you around on video calls, and apparently even recognize people’s faces.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgbbe/amazon-unveils-astro-a-privacy-nightmare-robot-that-follows-you-around…

Interactive lessons have the power to engage students, hold their focus, and motivate them to become actively involved in their learning. There are tons of EdTech tools to help you create interactive and media rich lessons to use in class …

The best speech-to-text software makes it simple and easy to convert speech into text, and can be available for both desktop and mobile devices.

https://www.techradar.com/nz/news/best-speech-to-text-app

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I challenged 100+ attendees to prepare for the autumn term by designing a university from the ground up, leveraging what we’ve learnt about student and staff preferences and experiences in the wake of the pandemic. What old albatrosses should we …

For over seven years, Microsoft Research has been proud to have one of its AI research projects contribute to the open exchange of knowledge within the research community. We are now evolving our focus to explore how we can advance …

TextBlaze is a text expander that lets you create smart text expansions. You can easily create custom keyboard shortcuts to help you save text snippets and templates to use on different places online. For instance, to type in your signature …

For educators to properly engage their students, they must remain abreast of these latest changes and key factors that affect learning in the classroom. Their understanding of these trends can help them create more effective learning environments. As teachers prepare …

We’ve been trying to upgrade education for a hundred years. Can we tinker our way to better schooling by the 22nd century?

https://mashable.com/article/future-education…

Last week at Zoom’s annual conference, Zoomtopia, a trio of education-focused Zoom employees (er, Zoomers?) speculated wildly about what hybrid Zoom learning might look like 10 years from now, given the warp speed advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning …

Developing your web development skills is easy, when you have the right online courses to learn from. Here are seven of the best websites to use.

https://www.makeuseof.com/websites-learn-web-development-online/…

The Critical Thinking Quiz is a quiz that presents a series of five scenarios in which a logical fallacy is used in an argument. The quiz gives you two answer choices. Feedback is immediately provided when an answer choice is …

When schools resumed classes in the fall of 2020, teachers faced a host of new challenges. These included things such as adapting to combinations of in-person, hybrid and remote learning models and managing health concerns during the pandemic. As a …

Microsoft recently announced a new Teams meeting feature called share-to-stage where you don’t just share your screen but also provides a real-time collaboration space for your participants to interact. This new feature will surely enhance the meeting experience in Microsoft …

“This article concludes with three very good suggestions for creating better essay assignments (quoted or paraphrased): ask students to develop their own thesis or argument based on a defined set of resources; provide a specific structure (and) samples for reference; …

The COVID-19 pandemic caused major upheaval, sending students home to remote learning and leaving teachers and parents scrambling to adapt. But it also created the opportunity for a deeper appreciation of their respective roles and challenges, according to a study …