Of all the education initiatives that were on display at the #EdSpark venue during One Spark, Flip Our Class was one of our favorites. Flip Our Class was actually one of our favorite creators from whole One Spark festival. Flip Our Class is a quasi-crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding moniker may be a misleading though. Flip [...]
"Cognitive Clubhouse will serve as a hub for critical and creative thinking. It will be the site of a variety of student centered programs and exhibits ranging from science, (Big Bang Science), history (Lunch with Legends), art, engineering, innovation, entrepreneurial education, gaming and coding."
Most teachers get into the profession because they have a wholehearted desire to teach kids the skills, lessons and content they need to know to be successful. However a lot of the traditional teaching methods are broken. It's not that they aren't effective or students are lazy it's just the original concept of teaching only [...]
Over the past year we've seen quite a bit of great educational technology. From our coverage of FETC, TECA and SXSWedu we've seen a lot of systems that help teachers manage students, assignments, grades and more. Diane Bixler, an educator for nearly two decades, has developed a new workflow management system for educators, with a [...]
There is a new education venture debuting at this years One Spark. The Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership - a conference and training venue in northeast Florida - announced the new initiative, #EDSPARK, last November: "#EDSPARK, an initiative of the Schultz Center, will curate a One Spark Venue where Creators with education-related Projects can exhibit at One Spark."
Parchment announced that it had closed a $10M round which brings the EdTech company's total funding to $45M. The company's work entails probably the least sexy aspect of education: transcript and other paper-based document management. In-fact, it almost seems that the nature of managing transcripts, and other such monotonous tasks, makes any solution that much more worthwhil
One of the more interesting projects that we had a chance to check out at last years inaugural One Spark was Immersed Games. The company is in the process of building a huge educational MMORPG. Think World of Warcraft or Ultima Online for education.
In what seems to be a last ditch money grab before the education bubble bursts, UNCG just announced a new online Doctorate of Education Degree in Kinesiology.
I remember learning about bones in school The foot bone's connected to the leg bone The leg bone's connected to the knee bone You remember the song. Like many, apps and the internet in the classroom were still decades away. Technology in school included Apple IIc's, film strip projectors and record players that weighed 80 [...]
Wandoo Plant is built on the premise that if children are actively learning about and doing the thing that they love, they will transcend their reading levels. With that idea as the foundation, Wandoo Planet seeks to expose children to, and help them uncover more of the things that they enjoy.
