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In the present article, I suggest ways to move away from traditional written exams or essays, during which it is more difficult to be sure of the students’ honesty. There are many cases where it is not easy to find …

“The article gets into a few technical concepts like connection weights, overfitting and local minima, but it does so in a way that makes them clear. If you know nothing about deep learning but would like to know what …

Plagiarism is on many teachers’ minds, especially in the context of distance learning. While there is no silver bullet against academic dishonesty, I offer you different strategies so that you can be confident that your students did write the answers …

In an hour or so, covers how to set up a live stream broadcast in YouTube using Open Broadcasting Systems software. This will allow you to broadcast your camera, applications, online meetings, and basically anything you want to a live …

Pandemic forcing schools to ask: ‘How do we make sure we’re engaging students?’

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/07/whats-wrong-with-online-learning-we-asked-sal-khan-the-worlds-most-prolific-tutor/…

A Teacher’s Guide to Philosophy for Children by Topping, Trickey, and Cleghorn is a short, comprehensive approach to coaching and engaging students in the process of thinking for themselves. Instead of being the giver of knowledge, teachers can focus on …

The idea that people learn better when taught in a way that matches their specific “learning style” — auditory, kinesthetic, visual or some combination of the three — is widely considered a myth.  Despite evidence, a large proportion of people …

Maintaining student’s attention is one of the constant challenges in virtual teaching. But that doesn’t appear to be an issue for gamers, who can regularly engage with audiences for long periods of time — sometimes upwards of 12 hours.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/zoom-fatigue-in-students-professor-on-twitch-says-take-a-lesson-from-gamers-1.5299216…

Teachers and administrators from pre-K through 12th grade named these tools their top picks for this year and beyond.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-teacher-picks-best-tech-tools…

The UAE, as an example of a country where students have access to devices, a quality internet service and a variety of educational platforms, was able to continue education in such tough circumstances as presented by the pandemic.

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/education-during-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-united-arab-emirates…

Becoming a super learner is one of the most important skills you need to succeed in the 21st century. In the age of technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education — a lifelong mastery of new models, skills and …

Imagining alternative futures for education pushes us to think through plausible outcomes and helps agile and responsive systems to develop. The OECD Scenarios for the Future of Schooling depict some possible alternatives.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/future-of-education-4-scenarios/…

We all have guilty pleasures. Fun fonts. Rainbow colors. Moving clip art. Patterned borders. But when does design support memory and learning, and when does it get in the way? Slide design, Bitmoji classrooms, learning management system banners, document layouts, …

Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201215131236.htm…

The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the influence of formative and summative assessment approaches based on an intelligent computer system that provides automatic feedback; the assessment is carried out in paper format, but obtaining feedback requires …