Wearable Technology
Wearable technologies are relatively new to the education sector, and the industry is primed for a breakthrough in the coming years. When Google Glass first came on the scene in 2013, experts predicted a massive boom in the way that we interacted with technologies that were more or less a part of us; we attached them […]
SymboLearn
Based on results from the most recent world-wide study done by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, math is one of the most challenging subjects students face in North America. Not only are concepts often abstract and difficult to apply to everyday life, but our modern day method of looking up answers doesn’t work […]
G-Interact!
Hello classmates! As we are in an uncertain time during this global health pandemic, I’ve listened to educators from my province and created a product that would help centralize all learning into one platform. Introducing G-Interact – an application/extension that can be added directly into your Google Classroom! Check out the G-Interact website to learn […]
Week 11: Microlearning OER
Hello Fellow ETEC’ers from Kendra, Michael, and Matthew! Welcome to Week 11 of the Opportunity Forecasts and our presentation on Microlearning! Winston Churchill once said “Personally, I am always ready to learn; although I don’t always like being taught”. In a world that moves at high speed and requires fast reactions, microlearning is a new […]
Google Classroom – an analysis and critique
Please follow the link to my review ETEC 522 Assignment 1: Analysis of learning technology product Google Classroom
Protecting Intellectual Property (IP)
So, I have a lot of good ideas 😉 And one thing I worry about is protecting those good ideas. This is particularly true as I move through the exercise of building out an idea that I hope has genuine potential as a business. But what is stopping Google, for example, from mining my good […]
Ben Lewis – CEO & Co-Founder of Limbix
The Limbix website describes Ben Lewis as an “experienced entrepreneur.” Prior to founding Limbix, he started Tapjoy and Karma Science. According to Ben’s LinkedIn profile, Tapjoy is a mobile ad company that generates over $100M in revenue. With an undergrad in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ben has the education […]
Zumi – Self-Driving Car Kit for Learning AI
Whether you use Amazon Alexa, own a Tesla, play mobile games, or use Google Maps, artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Like coding, learning how AI works will soon become an integral skill in tomorrow’s workforce. Zümi is here to help make something that’s normally complicated into something approachable. Zümi is the first educational self-driving car […]
I’m here!! (Coming from Chestermere, AB)
Hi Everyone! For some reason, I was locked out of this course for all of last week. But some techy support people at UBC got things straightened out and now it’s game on! A little about me – I grew up on a farm outside a tiny town in Southern, Alberta. (Welling if you want […]
AI & Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (aka “Deep Learning”) are actually quite different technologies, but they address roughly the same opportunity in learning. AI is the vision of creating a stand-alone processing capacity with dimensions of human intelligence, in science fiction approaching a “singularity” when a machine becomes more intelligent than any person. By contrast, Machine Learning refers to […]
Wearables
Wearable technologies can gather data—from the body of the wearer or from the environment—or provide information, or both. Wearables represent an evolution in our relationship with computing and hint at a future of ubiquitous connectivity where the furnishings of our everyday life are imbued with sensors, processors, and information displays. Inconspicuous wearable devices could change the […]
OCR Technology – Photomath
Hello everyone, I hope that you all are enjoying your summer thus far. My education venture focuses on OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology and its success thus far in the education technology market. As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, my focus is on technological opportunities to save time, effort, and energy for […]
Walk With Us Project: An Indiegogo Campaign
Hello sharks! I mean, fellow students, I am looking for your valuable feedback on my Indiegogo campaign (and maybe some shares on your socials when it goes live?), and, when I launch, $4500 for our next project. 🙂 Walk With Us Project is a digital storytelling and mapping project that uses 360′ cameras (Ricoh Theta S […]
Analyst Report – VR Vision
Hello Investors! A few weeks ago, I posted a market projection report from Goldman Sachs on VR\AR. The report predicted growth in many sectors but suggested that education’s adoption of VR may be stunted due to budgetary concerns. An astute colleague pointed out that: “This could partly be because the article was written in 2016 […]
A1 Analyst Report – Read & Write by Texthelp
Hi everyone, I chose the assistive technology of Read & Write by Texthelp for my analyst report. I’ve presented it through Google Sites, which can be found by clicking on the image below. Enjoy!
Week 7 – AI Tutors & Chatbots OER
Welcome to Week 7 everyone, we are already halfway done! This week our team will take you through the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence, in particular AI Tutors and Chatbots. Hope you find it interesting! Head over to our Google Site: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-innovations/
Co-founder of PearDeck: Riley Eynon-Lynch
Riley Eynon-Lynch is the CEO and Co-founder of PearDeck. PearDeck is a Google app that creates and administers interactive educational slideshows. These slideshow presentations ask questions and can have students answering while they learn! PearDeck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K-12 schools and teachers. Pear Deck was founded in 2014 in Iowa City, […]
Vikas Gupta: CEO & Founder at Wonder Workshop
After the birth of his first daughter, Vikas gupta felt a deeper calling than his current role as head of Consumer Payments at Google- to make coding and technical skills accessible to young children. His vision was crowdfunded and with his team he developed Dash and Dot, robots that were designed to introduce young children […]
Larry Page & Sergey Brin – Google
When people ask questions that either we don’t know or can’t answer, we often say ‘Just google it’. We use google so often that google became a word instead of just calling as a name of the company. When we search online for anything, we always start from Google, at least that’s what I do to […]
Carl Sjogreen, Co-Founder of Seesaw
Venture: Seesaw is a program that allows students to save their work into a digital portfolio that is instantly shared with their parents. The program also provides a place for teachers to communicate with parents at home by sending individual messages, class announcements or attaching files such as monthly newsletters. Seesaw is currently used by […]
Hello From Saskatchewan!
Hi Everyone, My name is Charmaine Collinge and I am a grade 7 teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. You may have heard of my city from the dispute we had with a city in Norway over who had the world’s tallest moose statue. It sparked a partnership between the two cities and now we have […]
Anyung from South Korea!
Hello from Seoul! I’m Brogan, and I’ve been an educator for four years. Presently, I teach Elementary Technology at Korea International School in South Korea. Prior to beginning my international career, I taught grade 4/5 for 3 years in Canada and was a fine arts instructor for grades K-12 at a private art school. I […]
Mobile Learning
Here is the link to our OER about Mobile Learning, and particularly, Mobile LMS technology: https://jonesylvr.wixsite.com/mobile-devices-522 Week Overview This week you will explore Mobile Learning Management Systems, or Mobile LMS. We ask that, if possible, you do all of this week’s reading & activities from your SmartPhone or Tablet. You will be moving between 2 […]
Craig Jones – CEO and Co-founder of Formative
Venture: Formative Web Address: https://goformative.com Youtube video introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keB7CkAgT5E (Apologies – the embed link option seemed to change the page layout) Formative (sometimes known as GoFormative) is a web based service which teachers can use to enhance and simplify formative assessment in the classroom. Formative allows teachers to create formative assessment pieces which can incorporate various multimedia (videos, […]
Dion Lim – Founder and CEO of NextLesson
Learning technologies venture: NextLesson Founder and CEO: Dion Lim Why NextLesson? NextLesson provides teachers with lessons that make the learning process more inviting by engaging students in real-world problems through topics they care about. NextLesson offers over 3,000 K-12 educational lessons covering a wide range of Math, Social Studies, ELA and Science concepts. Step-by-step lessons […]
Springboard – Gautam Tambay
Gautam Tambay is the Co-Founder & CEO of Springboard, a recent (2015) ed tech start up that has made some serious noise in the world of online education. At Springboard prospectives students have the opportunity to pursue an “in-demand”, mentor based approach to online education in a variety of of 21st centuries careers (cybersecurity, digital […]
Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn
I’ve been using Duolingo lately in an attempt to learn Japanese. I’ve really been enjoying it – although I do admit to supporting my studies through the app with YouTube videos – and I decided to explore it for this week’s Founder’s Parade. The Learning Technology Venture – Duolingo Duolingo is a not-for-profit (freemium) science-driven […]
Opportunity Horizon – “Intelligent Things”
After selecting Gartner Report’s “Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018” (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2018/), I chose to select Trend #3: “Intelligent Things” to focus on with respect to its training and educational implications. First off, let’s start with a basic definition. “Intelligent things” can be defined as a machine’s ability to use data analytics or AI […]
Elevating education in underserved regions
According to UNESCO, in 2016 93% of the 22.5 million refugees lived mobile-networked areas, 39 percent of the homes had internet connectivity ability (UNESCO, March 2018.). And, in a 2017 joint policy paper, UNESCO and Global Education Monitoring Report showed that if everyone completed primary and secondary school education, global poverty could be reduced by […]
W12: Digital Textbooks and their Designs
Textbooks are shifting to digital, becoming highly interactive, non-linear, and cloud-based. Digital textbooks will incorporate much more than static pictures and charts—they will feature video, audio, links, search capabilities, social media connections, and much more. The possibilities seem endless, and these upgrades to textbooks will completely redefine the paradigm in which we structure and organize information. Students […]
Please sign up for your Week 12 activity ASAP.
Hi everyone, The Week 12 Digital Text Team (Zain, Jessica and Dana) need your help. Because we are using the free version of the digital textbook program, we are somewhat limited on the number of contributors we are allowed to have. To work around this issue, we have created a class email address for us […]
Edlio – CMS: Communication Platform
As one who is totally immersed in how to provide students, parents, teachers and administrators with a safe environment for educational communication, I always appreciate those applications which make this pretty much seamless. Edlio provides the end user (educational providers) with a secure SaaS (Software as a Service) with an end product that has been […]
Salman Khan of Khan Academy
Salman, also known as Sal, is most notable to us for the creation of Khan Academy and his link to Khan Lab School. Khan Academy is an online, open education resource for learners across the globe. The company offers YouTube lectures on hundreds of different subjects and supplements the learning material with practice exercises and […]
Sebastian Thrun, Udacity
Sebastian Thrun, FOUNDER, PRESIDENT of Udacity About Udacity: Udacity is where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, to build the lives they deserve. Udacity’s mission is to democratize education through the offering of world-class higher education opportunities that are accessible, flexible, and economical. Virtually anyone on […]
Amplified IT
Founded by a group of IT consultants, Amplified IT is an education-focused Google for Education consultancy with a unique approach that focuses on empowering schools and districts. Working with a large number of schools and districts has enabled Amplified IT to tailor best practices for the deployment of Google for Education to each school’s unique […]
The race for Ontario LMS dominance
Ontario has had a large push in integrating e-learning opportunities using a provincial LMS system. For any company looking at making a move into a large-scale, provincial rollout, there is no client currently better than the Ministry of Education in Ontario. As explained in the article, the use of LMS systems in Ontario schools has […]
Using VR/AR in Education/Training
This originally started for gaming purposes, but now it’s going viral in Education and Training sector as well as per Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to Ernest Cline’s VR paradigm as described in Ready Player One. Over the last several years, VR has moved from being the purview of the military and aviation to the mainstream of professional development, […]
8 Sep
Social Media in the classroom can take so many forms that don't necessarily come to mind first. Simply websites like Google Classroom, Socrates, and Weebly have the ability to foster a social platform for students to engage, collaborate and share ideas and work with each other. The use of social media in the classroom can highlight and enhance learning in so many ways - it provides an outlet for those students to share in the conversation "online" when they would not otherwise feel comfortable sharing ideas, it provides enhanced accessibility, allowing students to use it from home and elsewhere, and it is simply an additional platform engaging students with different learning styles; all of these factors greatly increase participation and thus learning from each other. All the while, educators can promote responsible use of social media, as its use outside of the classroom will certainly be part of students' every day life.
30 May
I think that this is a natural progression for google. I like the idea very much. I have been waiting for a google apps framework that has been designed with educators in mind that has respect of privacy and no advertising. I am excited to use this with my students!
