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Looking for ways to boost student engagement in your lessons? I just found this fantastic resource on Pear Deck! It's a game-changer for interactive presentations.

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Here’s What it Takes to Achieve Sustainable Growth in Edtech #edtech
https://www.edtechdigest.com/2025/04/15/heres-what-it-takes-to-achieve-sustainable-growth-in-edtech/

Three areas to pay attention to that will set you up for long-term success. GUEST COLUMN | by Oliver Wreford Like so many other industries, education has been evolving rapidly, upended by artificial intelligence (AI), changing policies, and new learning models. To grow and meet the rapidly evolving needs of educators and...

I have released a new version of the #Moodle #Wordselect quiz question type. This release is to confirm compatibility with Moodle 5.0 and it also fixes a minor bug.

Wordselect is a very easy to use question type that allows a teacher to create text where one or more words are indicated to be the correct answers. The student can select one or more words and is marked according to if they are correct.

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_wordselect

Looking Back at AI Guidance Across State Education Agencies and Looking Forward - Center for Democracy and Technology #edtech
https://cdt.org/insights/looking-back-at-ai-guidance-across-state-education-agencies-and-looking-forward/

This blog is part of a series of pieces highlighting AI regulation trends across states. See CDT’s other blogs on state AI executive orders, public sector AI legislation, and local AI governance efforts. Artificial intelligence (AI) has shaken up the education...

Is generative AI exposing cracks in how we teach and assess—or just helping us paper over them?

In my latest post, I argue that the real issue isn’t AI. It’s our limited educational imagination.

Read more: https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0021_a_mirror_or_a_fix.html
#AI #Education #CriticalPedagogy #EdTech #Assessment #OpenEducation

I forgot to turn off my work email notifications while we are on break.
All the #edtech company reps emailing me this week to buy their stuff are now on my blacklist.
Know your customer - don't email teachers when they are on vacation. Our calendar is publicly available.
I don't have any clue of our budget for next year right now anyway.

Goupil Technology a l'honneur d'annoncer que nous faisons désormais partie du réseau EdTech France ! Très fiers de participer à l'innovation et aux projets de demain qui mettent la technologie au service de l'éducation et de la formation. #innovation #formation #EdTech

Efficacious IT managers in schools are teachers, IT pros, & leaders whose decisions realize strategic goals. Organizational success hinges on achieving these goals. #EdTech #ITManagement

Quiz Heartbeat

Students can be slow (or unaware of) problems when attempting a #Moodle #quiz. This plugins gives an overview of the time elapsed since the last interaction between a student and the Moodle server during quiz attempts

https://moodle.org/plugins/quiz_heartbeat

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Predicting AI Armageddon For Universities - Will the AI revolution resemble many other "transformational" education revolutions of the past, and how they failed? You betcha! Remember MOOCs https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/predicting-ai-armageddon-for-universities?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #EdTech

EDIT: Problem kinda solved by deleting all browser data, but still weird because I've never heard of Canva and run several privacy extensions simultaneously in Firefox. Any further comments welcome, but problem is at least resolved if still unexplained.

Help needed #Google #GoogleDocs #GoogleDrive

Background: I often make Google documents to share with students to edit, set to public, no login required.

Problem: Today it seems that something called "Canva Integrations" is required for somebody to access a newly made public/edit Google Doc link. This is pervasive across several Google logins, including my work-based enterprise access.

Older Google Docs, including as recent as last week do not seem affected.

Is this Google's new business model? Something else?

Tablets (like iPads) are popular and single-user friendly, but processing power and app limitations exist. Consider the learning tasks when designing #edtech

#Moodle 5.0 released:
AI enhancements, New activities overview, Course question banks, New question filters, Late submission penalties, New 'Graded' filter, Accessibility improvements and much more...

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=467459

New features overview incl. link to YouTube-Playlist: https://docs.moodle.org/500/en/New_features

#OpenSource #EdTech #Community #LMS #FediCampus #FediLZ #KI #AI #Community @moodle

Moodle 5 AI Video

Two minute video on the new #AI Features available with #Moodle 5. Notable feature is built in support for #ollama to go with #Openai (Think #ChatGPT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTIrjm6fNL4

Moodle 5.0 is available from github here

https://github.com/moodle/moodle/tree/MOODLE_500_STABLE

Welp. I am on a new medication which rendered me sick all weekend. I am finally feeling a little better... that means I was not able to start video production, possibly I'll try this coming weekend. I'll keep you posted and thank you for your answers so far! #edtech #tutorials #developers