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G Suite is making support and learning resources easier to find in several G Suite apps.They’re doing this by adding a new quick-access button to some products, and changing the Help menu options in others.

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things.

My first video of a 3 part series on "coordinated inauthentic behavior". Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this series.

Could you survive a plane crash?

Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.

Is it possible to reconstruct sound from high-speed video images?

I got upset that my package was stolen so I made a glitter bomb revenge package.

From electric cars to spacecraft, tech titan Elon Musk is widely known as an industry disrupter. Tuesday night in Los Angeles, Musk unveiled the very first tunnel in what he hopes will become a network of underground highways.

How did we come up with our system of telling time? Why do we divide the day into 24 hours of 60 minutes each, and put 60 seconds in each minute? Where does the definition of a second come from? And who decides what clock shows the correct time? There's clearly a lot of questions when it comes to time.

Scientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.

Often we concentrate on showing the negative effective of new technologies on the development of babies, but could tablets, smartphones and other touchscreen devices help improve their motor skills?

How much would a floating city weigh?

The fast rendering capability of this new machine actually let me eat dinner with my family on the first night I used it. This is incredibly important to me.

Lead by Kevin Brookhouser, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer and Google Certified Teacher. Learn some more ways you can use Google Docs & Sites in your English classrooms to have a collaborative writing process and dynamic assignments.

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.

We're not always teaching Generation Y, but learners think and behave differently than those from previous generations. These students were born into a world of information technology; they regularly multitask and they trust the ideas of peers and web videos more than their teachers.Generation Y is significant: it constitutes 20 percent of the world's population. As Gen-Y occupies the young end of the population demographic, we can assume many second language learners belong to this group; it demands our attention and understanding.

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One problem with integrating most technology is that schools and teachers rely too much on Internet access. We forget that even without the Internet, laptops and mobile devices are very powerful learning tools. Here are a few ideas of the many, I do with students that do not require a class Internet connection.

Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. Check out the very best sources for educational videos on the web.

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

The Definition: The flipped classroom inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction online outside of class and moving homework into the classroom. Increasingly common in the last few years and made more popular by Khan Academy, the flipped classroom concept is a perfect match for the SMRT curriculum. ESL students in particular can benefit from watching grammar lectures before school starts and having�extra class time for active learning and skill building. Want more information? Try the Teacher's Guide to Flipped Classrooms by Edudemic. �This technology education blog has compiled a comprehensive list of flipped class resources with teacher support, examples and videos.