EdTech Fablevision ISTE As Fablevision enters graduation age, they've seen a lot of changes in the classroom and specifically technology in the classroom. Common core standards, reading, writing and arithmetic, and standardized testing are all an important part of a students education, but the backbone of a well rounded student at the [...]
We’re gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Atomic Learning. Atomic Learning is a content repository of sorts, offering training and learning resources. We had a chance to ask the Atomic Learning Team [...]
TiloTag is an exciting new app who's slogan is "leave messages in their place". What that means is, using the Tilotag app the a users message is geotagged and then it can be virtually left there in the place it was recorded, uploaded or left. A message can then be left for the public to [...]
There is no question that the traditional textbook will soon be a thing of the past. They are, simply put, outdated. A science textbook from 2009 is filled with information that has since been proven wrong, or has since been updated to a significant degree. It does not make sense to keep using such [...]
Epson, the number one selling projector brand worldwide, made some major noise at Infocomm in Las Vegas last week, just ahead of ISTE next week in Atlanta. The company revealed several new projectors and refreshed several of their projector lines. One of the most exciting announcements is the new BrightLink Pro series projectors. With the [...]
There are a lot of solutions out there for web filtering. Many of them are geared towards enterprise and when they realized there was a market in K-12 they opened up a new vertical with those enterprise filters. The problem is, those filters, typically blocked entire websites. It's ok to decide that your administrative assistants [...]
There has been a big push in recent months and years to get kids into coding. This is no easy task. One of the hardest things, when starting out, is actually seeing and visualizing any sort of results. This is where Trinket - formerly Coursefork - comes in. Trinket is an incredibly unique product, and we recently [...]
If you’re following any educational organization on Twitter these days, you’ve likely seen the hashtag, #PBL (Project-Based Learning). But, what’s all the buzz about? Project-Based Learning is not a new idea. In fact, it dates back to the time of Socrates. You see, humans are not wired to retain meaningless facts like a computer; we [...]
Pixowl's Sandbox game is a STEAM focused virtual world builder for kids. The fun game, with infinite possibilities, drives kids with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) focused principles, to create virtual worlds. The game literally takes place in a sandbox and allows players to manipulate more than 150 physics elements. The game has [...]
There's going to be a time in the not so distant future where the term flipped classroom won't exist anymore. Why, because in education in the future all classrooms will be flipped. (If you're not familiar with flipped classroom we've got a great overview here.). While the US is struggling with common core in an [...]
