Feedly is my first recommendation for people that want to use RSS to manage their news resources. I’m an ardent user of RSS and I still don’t understand why Google cancelled Google Reader.
For the free level of Feedly you can now only subscribe to a max of 100 feeds (or sites). This is probably enough for new users, and is an easy way to get started with reading RSS feeds.
When Mike Bloomberg, ex-mayor of New York, said he’d like to fire the lower-scoring half of the city’s teachers and give their students to the better-scoring half, doubling the size of their classes but paying them twice as much, he was affirming his belief in a particular theory of learning. For a short demonstration of…
But regardless of how people are collaborating, creating, and getting excited, there’s one crucial thing to remember … technology makes no significant difference to learning. Source: #EdTech makes no significant difference – EDUWELLS I strongly disagree with his reasonings. If technology makes no significant difference, then why has almost every industry adopted the use of technology…
Source: Bookfeed.io – An RSS Feed with New Releases from Your Favorite Authors No, RSS isn’t dead, and there are tools that take advantage of the availability of RSS feeds. Bookfeed.io is one of those. Grab a list of your favorite authors and Bookfeed.io will create an RSS feed to announce new books by those…
“We dropped over $10,000 last year on a math product, but I’m not sure if it’s really helped our students learn.” Sound familiar? Source: How Do We Know When Technology Helps—or Hurts—the Classroom? Educators at ISTE Weigh In | EdSurge News Trying to gauge the effectiveness of any teaching strategy is difficult, so this question…
A new study shows you can be easily re-identified from almost any database, even when your personal details have been stripped out. Source: You’re very easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized – MIT Technology Review I see this in schools, where the staff will strip out any identifiable information from…
Previously considered risky investments, it’s true that many edtech startups — commonly founded by “teacherpreneurs” hell bent on mending education through tech innovation… Source: The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing | TechCrunch I was surprised at the economics behind etech solutions, and, even more surprising, was the small percentage (1.4%) of educational…