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Teachers and students now have access to a wealth of artificial intelligence technologies that can transform the learning process. From adaptive learning platforms and content generators to virtual tutors and grading assistants, AI tools are stepping in to personalize education and optimize time. In this post we highlight 15 of the most useful AI tools for education that matter, covering aspects like personalized learning, content recommendations, test preparation, and more. These technologies can help take curriculum to the next level and free up educators to focus more on nurturing students' growth.

Social media is literally everywhere! The latest to make it into the news is how it is affecting the way teachers and students get connected outside of school. But is this a good thing?

Plagiarism checker tools are services that help you figure out if some text or a document has been copied from elsewhere. These tools are widely used by those who strive for unique content: for example, website owners, bloggers, and teachers. … Continue reading →

Plagiarism checker tools are services that help you figure out if some text or a document has been copied from elsewhere. These tools are widely used by those who strive for unique content: for example, website owners, bloggers, and teachers. … Continue reading →

When is it cheating? When is it collaboration? This thoughtful article from Common Sense Media provides fine advice for parents (or teachers) on how to talk to kids about digital media and ethics.  

Many of the participants in the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program use Google Sites to create their e-portfolios.  The portfolios are created and used throughout the program. During the practicum, when students become teachers by teaching in one of our graduate classes, they also refine and polish their portfolios. Ultimately the online portfolio becomes a job search tool that helps our graduates show a potential employer what they know. 

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This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find! 

Threaded discussion is an old technology. It's inspiring to think of new ways we can talk together at a distance that allow integration of both synchronous and asynchronous technology. I often thing we'll look back on the course management systems we use today and think of them as something like a 300 baud modem. Eyes Front! What's over the horizon line?

In the last few years, school management software has emerged as an important tool for the school that will cooperate them convenience their administrative activities in a way that only helps in working the teachers and the staff in effectively. It also helps the school to organize all its daily administrative so that they get optimum ability in the manner they function.

Digital Storytelling (also affectionately known as ds106) is an open, online course that happens at various times throughout the year at the University of Mary Washington… but you can join in whenever you like and leave whenever you need. This course is free to anyone who wants to take it, and the only requirements are a real computer, a hardy internet connection, preferably a domain of your own and some commodity web hosting, and all the creativity you can muster. In August-December 2013, we ran an experimental open version of ds106 where… THERE WAS NO TEACHER! What? How is that possible? Learn more about the idea for Headless ds106 and how it planned out including an unexpected group collaboration for the story of GIFACHROME.