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Category: tech
Is AI making it extremely easy for students to cheat?
“… teachers, myself included, need to do a better job of incorporating technology…and finding ways of using it in productive ways…. Just as robotics has transformed manufacturing, tools like Wolfram|Alpha are forcing us to rethink an educational system by challenging it to rise to the new technological standard. Either we reshape our schools to embrace tools like Wolfram|Alpha, or we risk becoming living artifacts in a rapidly progressing world.”
More here.
Micro vs Macro-learning and more
Insightful read on the things we have learnt about digital learning.
Teaching in the Digital Age
6 Web-based/Mobile Response Tools for Student Engagement
Just conducted a workshop today on the use of web-based/mobile response tools for students engagement and formative assessment. Here are the 6 free tools I introduced to my colleagues.
PingPong Spot Networking Apple App Store Google Play
Would love to hear about your experiences with them.
The Internet and Change
Welcome to my Glassroom
Trying out Google Glass in my Human Mind and Behaviour class today. The students had a field day wearing it.
10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines
http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/rube-goldberg-machines/
Get your own cryptocurrency
Million Short
A very interesting experiment.
“Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought it might be somewhat interesting to see what we’d find if we just removed an entire slice of the web.”