By Marisa Sergnese, training and professional development leader at Steelcase Education Steelcase Education believes that pedagogy, technology and space are three key elements of an active learning environment. Just as we all grapple with the ongoing rapid-fire upgrades and updates to our digital devices, new technologies in education also continue to emerge. Consequently, teaching methods [...]
This week, President Obama hosted the first White House Maker Faire, proclaiming a National Day of Making and encouraging young people to be designers, engineers, and inventors -- not just consumers. And he called for more programs and activities to mentor and empower a new generation of Makers. You might expect that the Maker Movement [...]
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 Tales2Go. Tales2Go is an interesting approach to getting kids to read and enjoy reading. Essentially, Tales2Go is a sort of Netflix for streaming [...]
Kajeet is a wireless company that caters specifically to kids, well parents of kids. Their Kajeet smartphone service offers safe, affordable cell phones for kids. They offer a number of smart and feature phones direct from their website. They can also convert any Sprint phone not currently on contract to the Kajeet service. Their smartphone [...]
At the upcoming International Society For Technology in Education conference in Atlanta, flipped classrooms are going to be a big theme. Flipped classrooms are becoming more and more popular. The term flipped classroom refers to a teaching environment where the teacher turns to video and interactive instruction so that students can work at their own [...]
(photo: ISTEunplugged) The International Society for Technology in Education, more affectionately known as ISTE, is holding it's annual mega conference in less than two weeks in Atlanta Georgia at the World Congress Center. The conference is often billed as the largest educational technology conference in the world and runs from June 28th to [...]
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 TiltonTec. TiltonTec's main offering is Tilton's Algebra. This is not some run-of-the-mill algebra program. It is hyper-focused on the first year algebra student. We [...]
When Dr. Duncan Milne and his wife Anna Kirschberg first opened up their edtech company, Junior Learning, in 2009, they set out to bridge the world of toys with education. Both Milne and Kirshberg knew there were several toy companies out there making toys and adding in educational elements, they set out to design educational [...]
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 Lightspeed Systems. Lightspeed Systems has a few different products that "make learning safe, mobile and collaborative." Lightspeed Systems Facebook Page We had a chance to [...]
Did you ever have a handout happy teacher as a kid? I know I did, in fact I had quite a few. Poor teachers though, they would spend hours upon hours laying things out by hand, typing blurbs and instructions up on a typewriter or computer and then adding graphics with a razorblade and layout [...]
