There are a ton of educational software platforms out there, but none as mature as Gaggle. Gaggle launched in 1999 as a student email service. Today, Gaggle has expanded well beyond email, and now has products in just about every major component of education software. Currently, Gaggle is used in 15,000 schools in 57 countries, [...]
There are a handful of technology companies that are trying to build a social network around schools and education. Most of them have fallen short though, by trying to mimick a Facebook for XX school. While novel in their approach and idea, at it's roots a Facebook style social network for schools misses the communication [...]
Classroom behavior can be one of the biggest challenges for a teacher, especially at earlier levels of education. That's the time when a teacher has to not only teach a class but teach students the fundamentals of behaving properly in a class setting, one of the earliest group settings a child will ever experience. As [...]
The world went crazy earlier this week when it was announced that Microsoft was releasing a new version of the Xbox One for $100 less, without the Kinect peripheral. While the news was being shouted from the rooftops of all tech and gaming blogs across the globe, it wasn't like this was a big surprise. [...]
Every once in a while, a new game shows up that completely alters a genre. Yesterday may prove to be the day that the First-Person Shooter (FPS) was transformed. At 7:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, SUPERHOT launched its Kickstarter Campaign. By 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the campaign had raised more than $60,000, well on its [...]
While hearing about ads coming to your favorite social network may turn off some people, those in the tech community have been anxiously awaiting to see when Pinterest would finally take their platform, that's just absolutely made for advertising, and start actually running some ad units. Adage reported on Monday that Pinterest has finally launched [...]
Most kids who've had the opportunity to tour a submarine, be it a dry docked museum or an actual submarine, want nothing more than to join the navy immediately and go down deep into the ocean. Sailors, or submariners, as they're called who've actually done it, liken a tour on a submarine to being in [...]
There are a ton of reasons why Motorola's Moto G - and perhaps the just released Moto E - is selling at record paces. The Moto G has only been available for 6 months, and yet it is Motorola's best selling smartphone of all time. The Lenovo, née Google, subsidy is on to something. Starting with [...]
The Grush Brush is taking the world by storm by actually gamifying the teeth brushing experience. While we've already said there are a few "connected" tooth brushes out there, Grush has actually found ways to create interactive games where the kids brushing their teeth actually play games by brushing their teeth. Just watch the video [...]
Way back when I was in high school, I loved to skateboard. I still skate every so often, but not nearly as much as I used to. Though I am not as active in the skateboarding scene as I once was, I still pay attention to skaters I like, the trends, and the technology. From [...]
