Listen to the story {Play} Michael Bodekaer Jensen is both an EdTech innovator and a multi-disciplinary academic. He is a co-founder and CEO of Labster. After two disruptive years, many students resemble Ferris Bueller’s bored classmates. Exposure quarantines pushed remote classroom learning from the occasional into the commonplace. Both teachers …
Listen to the story {Play} The type of education a child receives appears to influence how they represent knowledge in long-term memory, according to a new study published in the journal Science of Learning. The findings indicate that Montessori students tend to have a more richly connected network of semantic …
Listen to the story {Play} Deepfake crime is a real and present danger for businesses. Last year, it cost one bank alone $35 million in a single scam, yet many businesses are still ignoring the risks, partly thanks to a lack of cyber security skills at leadership level. With Deepfake technology …
Listen to the story {Play} Whether it be in education or in the workplace, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruption but also opened up some big opportunities for change in how people work together. For example, organisations that have been looking for ways to become more flexible, innovative, or …
Listen to the story {Play} Like in the 13th Century when a borderless network of universities began to spread the internet was from the beginning a network of scientists beyond the reach of the national governments. Later this developed into a global and anarchistic discussion forum to on the brink …
Listen to the story {Play} A report called “Blockchain in Education” from the European Commission shows the prospects blockchain technology impact on education and its potential to transform the field. The main conclusion is that: “Blockchain technology can help improve old models of data management and bring benefits to learners …
Two areas where Artificial Intelligence will have a considerable impact on education is with its adaptive sequencing capabilities. The other is how AI transform pedagogical models. The first means artificial intelligence that is embedded in content that help students learn in a self-directed manner. That improves the learning process. Both …
Not more but different to upgrading media literacy education is required to equip people to be able to handle the evolving media landscape is one of Mike Caulfield that heads the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project messages in an article in niemanlab.org. He writes: “Recent studies seem …
According to Neuroscience all learning depends on the rewiring of neurons into new patterns. From this prerequisite, it takes 10 000 hours of learning to become an expert within a certain field according to recent research. The new rewired patterns in the brain once established creates a new unconscious competence. …
Virtual Reality future will have a great impact on publishing and learning is a trend that is acknowledged by many sources. But what are really the benefits when using VR in practice within these areas. Let’s turn to journalism as an interesting example. Virtual Reality future for Publishing In a …
