Artificial Intelligence (AI) has stopped being just a thing of Sci-Fi novels and movies. From self-driving cars and grocery shopping without cash registers (Amazon Go), to algorithms that detect disea...
The educational system as we know it needs a revamp. Actually, a revamp is not enough. The educational system needs to be restructured. A lot of things need to change, and the sooner that happens, the...
Will AI replace teachers? This was the subject at a plenary debate at the OEB conference just last December. I was intrigued. What arguments would the four expert speakers bring to the table? Artifici...
Augmented Reality is awesome. Even though AR technology is not new, it seems it really started to spread lately. Its uses are as varied as the leaves in the Amazonian forest, and more and more people ...
2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. We should all be thankful for all the good things that happened, and hopeful that the next year we'll witness even more of them. ...
This piece originally appeared on edtechdigest.com. The first pop-up children's book I ever touched was Little Red Riding Hood. I was a high school senior and I had thought I was over the fairy tales ...
In the last week's post I promised to address exactly 10 BYOD concerns that keep schools reluctant to allowing students to use their mobile devices in the classroom. But I only delivered five, so this...
BYOD at school is more than the latest buzz phrase you hear at every corner of the teacher's rooms or along school hallways. It's really happening. More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow ...
This post has been updated on April 30, 2020. Whenever my mom made cookies when I was a little kid, I could barely wait for them to come out of the oven. My mom’s cookies were simply delicious. She ha...
A small thing can pass by unnoticed. But many small things can become the equivalent of a really large one. You may not notice — or give too much credit to — a typo that got its way into your written ...
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but all eyes are connected to a brain, which works the same in all humans. I've always been fascinated by the subtlety of fonts in any written piece. At ...
Have you ever bought something not because you really needed it, nor because it offered much value to you, but simply because it had a nice packaging? Don't be ashamed if you did; you're not the only ...
This post has been updated on August 19, 2020. Everyone likes beautiful things. Our human brain is wired to give priority to visually appealing, eye-catchy things over less than beautiful ones. This s...
We're 16 years into the new millennium, yet the standard classroom seems to be stuck into a long-gone past. Educational institutions still have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy. Even though most teac...
I was strolling in a park the other day and just when I got distracted by a colorful ice cream truck and was wondering if I should resist the sweet temptation, a sudden pain pulled me right back into ...
It isn't, really. But it is. It's a fine line between them. While both terms are often used interchangeable, there are situations when learning management system is a better choice of words than learn...
