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The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) is increasingly more familiar as we encounter it in our daily lives. (Have you asked Siri or Alexa a question lately?) As technology becomes a bigger part of teaching and learning, accelerated by the COVID-19 …

Learn about a way you can add captions to any video call through a quick Google Slides hack. If you haven’t thought about using captions during lessons, webinars, trainings, or live calls, this episode will show you how easy it …

In a survey of more than 2,500 teachers in eight countries, which was carried out in October/November 2020, there was one thing everyone seemed to agree on – online learning is not as effective as classroom-based teaching.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/classroom-teaching-better-than-remote-learning-education/…

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all learners equal opportunity to succeed.  UDL also supports the social constructivist theory of learning that knowledge develops as a result of social …

Here are some of the top tools to help teachers to create videos of your lessons to use with a class.

https://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2021/02/7-top-tools-to-help-record-your-lessons-for-remote-teaching…

As the pandemic has driven adoption and (over)use of videoconferencing software like Zoom, it’s required changes in American Sign Language.

https://boingboing.net/2021/03/01/how-zoom-is-changing-american-sign-language.html…

As AI (artificial intelligence) takes over many aspects of our lives, people are wondering about the role of machine learning in education.  We are now living in a world in which bots are beginning to do many of the jobs …

Class, which launches today, offers a teaching software for Zoom helping educators improve student engagement in the virtual classroom. Michael Chasen, co-founder and CEO of Class, joined Wake Up With Cheddar to discuss the launch.

https://flipboard.com/topic/educationtechnology/class-uses-teaching-tools-to-make-virtual-classrooms-feel-like-real-classrooms/a-hfQDbPV5TcS1wjLm6OuFpQ%3Aa%3A2174379230-bc8e1c4a4d%2Fflipboard.com…

A new study from Stanford University communications expert Jeremy Bailenson is investigating the very modern phenomenon of “Zoom Fatigue.” Bailenson suggests there are four key factors that make videoconferencing so uniquely tiring, and he recommends some simple solutions to reduce …

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have had to adapt their teaching for an online world. Moving away from the technology used, there are many general teaching strategies that can be adopted for a virtual environment.

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2021/02/25/making-remote-teaching-easier/…

The possibilities of IVR are myriad; it is a communication and representation tool that will be increasingly present in the architectural community. Immersive Virtual Reality is a technology that consists of creating or recreating an entirely virtual computer-generated environment in …

With the pivot to remote and hybrid learning, teachers needed a way to share their screen when instructing, but also for students to do the same while demonstrating understanding. This list, while not completely comprehensive of all whiteboard and annotation …

Random Group Generator by  Classtools is an example of an EdTech tool designed specifically to help teachers tap into the educational potential of group work. As its name indicates, Random Group Generator enables you to easily create random teams in …

Far from technology being harmful for children, some thinkers argue that it is actively beneficial, teaching them the social skills we fear they are losing.

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2021/03/growing-immersed-screens-damaging-our-children-0…

There’s a lot of information out there about using Zoom, and it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. You may have heard, for instance, that a meeting host can hear you when you’re muted. We are here to …