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 VariQuest. VariQuest offers educators with a ton of Visual Learning Tools, aimed at allowing teachers the ability to create effective visual aids [...]
We have been coveing a ton of great education startups over the past several months. However, most of these companies are involved with the standard classroom education. However, we just came across Great Parents Academy. Great Parents Academy provides students and teachers of grades K-5 with high quality supplemental math curricula for these students. We had [...]
As EdTech, online learning, collaborative classrooms, flipped classrrooms, and elearning continue to take off, the need for content monitoring has increased. Long are the days when a teacher or administrator can go to town with a free ip address blocker and call it a day. As more and more students start school, who basically grew [...]
There is no shortage of video in the world. According to YouTube, there is more that 100 hours of video uploaded to the platform ever single minute. With this huge amount of video out there, it seems like this would be an excellent source for educators. However, the huge amount of video is both a huge [...]
Oh those were the days. Do you remember back to elementary school and every Friday morning the teacher would pass out the Weekly Reader. It was your very own copy of a newspaper with interesting stories, puzzles and games just for kids. I'm pretty sure in the back of my mind it was the Weekly [...]
Have you ever seen an iPad case that you could really just bounce the iPad off the sidewalk? Sure there are cases by Otterbox and Griffin that offer maximum protection from situations that most grown adults may consider an accident, but what about kids. We had one of those premium cases on my 6 year [...]
The EdTech revolution is on and companies big and small, and everywhere in between are getting in. Google has an arm already, Goodle For Education which has tailored the Google Play store and Google Apps specifically for educators and education under the "Google For Education" banner. After polling educators across events like SXSWedu and the [...]
You've probably noticed by now we here at Techfaster have become pretty passionate about education technology. Although I've personally been in the tech media for over a decade, it wasn't until my daughter started Kindergarten, three years ago, that I realized how much edTech was out there. EdTech has quickly become our most popular vertical [...]
TCEA, the Texas Computer Education Association is one of the largest state wide edtech organizations in the country. Their annual conference in the spring brings educators from all over the country and the world to show off the latest in educational technology and teach teachers the benefits of how to use it and more. Flipped [...]
We first got a chance to meet the folks at Mcor during the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. There, our 3D Faster correspondent John Hauer, CEO of 3DLT, spent some time talking with Mcor about changing trends in the rapidly expanding 3D printing industry. Mcor is one of the pioneers in the 3D printing [...]
