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When we give our students activities to complete asynchronously, especially if they are staggered over many weeks, it is pertinent to have strategies to accompany them and to help them develop their autonomy. In this article, I will suggest some …

If you are a tab collector and like to have several tabs open simultaneously on your Chrome this little hack will definitely be of great help. Tab groups allows you to organize your opened tabs into groups which you can …

Microsoft Teams is trying to make video calls a little less boring during the pandemic era of remote working with new presenter modes. These allow you to customize how you appear when you’re presenting in Teams. Three new modes will …

One billion public-facing Instagram photos were used to train an algorithm created by Facebook to learn to recognise images by itself. Afterwards it was able to correctly identify images with 84.5% accuracy, Facebook reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56321296…

Experiential learning takes many forms, but one form in particular has proven particularly potent: Active learning — where learners engage in debate, problem-solving, role-playing, product creation and so on — is much more effective than presenting and explaining content. It …

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/…