You may know Levar Burton from his days as Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. You may remember him from his role in Roots or if you're like me, you learned to read watching countless hours of Burton on Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow had an incredible run on PBS for 21 years. [...]
There are a ton of learning apps out there. Many are good, but more often than not, they just seem to offer the normal learning environment just in a new interactive form. However, we just came across Field Day, a unique new learning app. Field Day incorporates project based learning, and has proven to be a [...]
Being the father of a six year old girl who absolutely loves science, can get, well, a little messy. We've got science kits among science kits among even more science kits. We've ruined just about every decent shirt with volcano eruptions, mixing non dangerous chemicals, and making so many things that bubble up you'd [...]
So at this point in time if you haven't heard of the megahit game Threes there's something wrong with you. It's an addictive game that has the player try and build up multiples of Three to score more and more points. Start playing against family members and it becomes downright time consuming. While Threes is [...]
You can have all the education in the World, but nothing beats hands-on, nitty gritty experience. It is so easy for students to get caught up in the day-to-day, studying for a test, or writing a paper, or completing other various assignments. When this happens, very little information is retained. Especially in the business and [...]
There are a ton of resources out there for teachers and educators. A ton. Think about it, there is curriculum managment software; formative assessment software; instructional management tools; reporting management tools; instructional information systems (IIS); educator effectiveness and teacher evaluation software. These are just a few, the list goes on and on. These are [...]
New reading plaform from MindPlay comes with a 90% success rate money back guarantee. For decades, parents and even teachers turned to the Hooked On Phonics reading system to help kids learn to read and improve their reading skills. Hooked on Phonics was big, really big, in fact the box came with more cassette tapes [...]
There was a little while there when it looked like augmented reality was going to be the next big thing. However, it turned out that augmented reality had a very narrow range of use. Virtual tours, however, is a perfect use case for the technology. One company, Whitepoint, has built an incredibly useful platform. [...]
While still in college themselves Brendan Weinstein and Doug Messer started DBFly Watches, a watch company that emphasized form, function and fashion for today's college student. The brand was appealing because the watches were priced under $50 and featured interchangeable faces and bands. It was easy and affordable for the DBFly customer to have multiple [...]
So no one really likes to give presentations. They are nerve-wracking, and lead to a lot of stress, at least in my experience. On top of the general anxiety that comes from giving a presentation, the software is somewhat clunky. The software has yet to catch up. This is especially evident in the classroom. For [...]
