While we were at ISTE during this week, we had a chance to meet with a bunch of EdTech startups. In fact, there was a whole section of the expo floor dedicated to startups. Anyhow, one of these startups really stood out. Kidnected World is an incredibly unique company for a number of reasons. Firstly, [...]
Gripcase iPad Case For Kids The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference was a lot of fun for our six year old correspondent Tatum F. As we were pulling out of Atlanta we asked what her favorite part of the conference was and she said robots and throwing iPads. The conference featured over [...]
Skyforge Skyhook Box Cloud 3D Printing. Nothing erks me more than to read a press release or note from someone filled with today's top tech and startup jargon and buzzwords, unless it all comes together. That's the case with Skyforge that's trying to solve a few common 3D printing problems with one solution. Skyforge in [...]
Open Source Smart Table As an alternative to expensive multi-touch display surfaces, a group of hobbyist engineers decided to try to build their own and in doing so, open source the hardware and the software. What came together was a community created project called the Play Surface at playsurface.org. Of course there are multiple [...]
Big Grips iPad Case Test There are plenty of iPad case manufacturers out there that claim their cases are made for kids. Some have done exhaustive testing and deemed that yes they could be put to the test, and some have been implemented in classrooms and lived up to their claim. Our six year old [...]
Drawp Art Collaboration App Drawp is an amazing new art app for kids. Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that’s built for more professional applications. This means that kids can get even more creative than normal on an iPad. More and more kids are using iPads in and out of [...]
Buzzmob School Communications Platform, ISTE 2014 A real communications problem exists in many schools and many school districts across the country. Schools use automatic voicemail, texting solutions, Facebook, and even notes home to communicate with parents. Typically all of these solutions are from different service providers sans the notes home, that's old fashioned print outs, [...]
There are a lot of companies out there making a name for themselves by saying that they are teaching kids how to program in a very short time. At ISTE 2014 we actually saw it happen when Terrapin Software taught our six year old special correspondent, Tatum, the fundamentals of programming in under ten [...]
Panasonic 3E ISTE Sunday th first big day at the International Society for Technology in Education kicked off with a big bang from Panasonic with the help of their partners Intel and Microsoft. In a standing room only press event, Panasonic took the cover off of the brand new 3E 2-in-1. Rance Poehler, President of [...]
Firefighter Creates App TiloTag On Off Days Ray Briant is a third generation full time career fire fighter. The South Florida Battalion Chief works for one of the more busy fire departments in the state. Briant,works 24 hours on and 48 hours off. In his spare time he's turned to his entrepreneurial ideas. "I've had [...]
