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 …
What will education look like in 20 years? Here are 4 scenarios
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/…
Using Lessons From Visual Design to Make Better Materials for Students
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, …
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
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…
An Intelligent Computer System for Assessing Student Performance
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 …
Screen Time and the Brain
Whether we like it or not, digital devices are everywhere. Some of us can barely put them down, even when we’re with cherished family and friends.
An Important Distance Learning Resource for Teachers, Students and Parents
Wide Open School (WOS) is a platform developed by the leading non-profit for kids and families Common Sense media. WOS provides access to a wide range of resources designed specifically to help enhance the quality of distance learning. The work …
From TikTok to Instagram, COVID-19 messaging for young people is no easy task
The Government of New Brunswick is trying to reach young people with posts and ads on social media. But some experts say the message might not be getting across.
https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5887866
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Bringing More Spontaneous Interaction to the Virtual Classroom with Proximity Chat
A new breed of web-based virtual environments offering proximity chat (also called spatial chat) mimic the possibility of speaking or collaborating with one or more peers while remaining in the same virtual space as the entire class group.
A Crash Course on Online Curation and Social Annotation – An interview with Patti Kingsmill
Online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) are 2 collaborative strategies that can help students make meaning of the course content and relate to it in an authentic way. For this article I spoke with Patti Kingsmill to find an …
Google Lens Now Translates Offline
Google’s image recognition technology is already capable of so much, but the most useful feature is real-time language translation using your smartphone. Now the Google Lens app is capable of performing translations without need of an internet connection.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-lens-now-translates-offline…
Pandemic ‘changed learning for better’
People have “lost sight” of how the coronavirus pandemic has “changed learning for the better”, the education secretary has said. While some consequences of remote learning have been “challenging to say the least”, others have actually been “unqualified success”, according …
How Covid-19 has changed the way we look at exams
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to take a fresh look at our examination system and its shortcomings, along with the changing student-teacher dynamics.
Metrics in Learning Analytics
Anyone putting together an learning analytics strategy is arbitrarily framing a box, more or less, in which learning happens. Only through the pinholes of such a theoretical box can learning be observed. Then, only by putting those observations together can …
10 Useful Google Chrome Extensions You Should Install In 2021
Despite being its ram hogging nature, Google Chrome is still the world’s most popular browser. In this article, we are listing some of the useful Google Chrome extensions you should install.