Evanced Games is the company behind Wandoo Planet, who we also spoke to at SXSW. Beyond showcasing Wandoo Planet, Evanced Games was at the conference to show off their four other education games.
"Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street" is a question that's been on my mind since the mid 80's and I was still in pre-school. Certainly we could go to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania or visit the Children's Television Workshop. My parents and I would also see Elmo, Big Bird and the [...]
Last night, Wednesday March 5th, RobotsLAB was named the winner of the 2014 LAUNCHedu competition at SXSW. RobotsLAB emerged from more than 80 competitors to win the 3rd annual LAUNCHedu contest.
Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
We had a chance to swing by the Leap Motion booth at SXSXEdu. You may be asking, what is the company doing at an education conference? Well, as the rep expanded on in the below video, there are a ton of educational uses for the device. Firstly, there is a massive Leap Motion developer community. This community has already built a huge number of applications that focus on science, history, math, among other subjects. Further, as there is a robust SDK for the controller that supports many different languages, computer science instructors can easily work Leap into their curriculum
Nearly two years ago the American Federation Of Teachers partnered with Britain's TEC Connect to start a free online community for teachers. Through ShareMyLesson teachers can share lesson plans, best practices and great ideas with each other along with the materials that go with those great ideas. The hope is that teachers from across both [...]
Yesterday, during the SXSWEdu expo, we had a chance to speak SparkFun Electronics, a company based out of Boulder Colorado. SparkFun is an open-source hardware company, meaning that they open source the designs and components for all of their hundreds of products. These products range from accelerometers to full robotics kits to cellular modules and [...]
Nolan Bushnell. the man behind the original Atari and the first interactive kids restaurant concept, Chuck E Cheese, took to the main stage at SXSWedu on Monday to talk about the project he's been working on over the last two years, Brain Rush. Bushnell is forging his two loves, video games and kids and making [...]
Samsung didn't waste anytime in Austin this year as SXSW officially kicked off with SXSWedu. The Techfaster team is on the ground in Austin for the next 15 days bringing you SXSW faster. 15 public schools from across the country, that were chosen as finalists in the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow contest squared off to [...]
Amplify, NewsCorps education technology division has announced, what the company is calling "groundbreaking" new digital curriculum for middle school English language arts students. Amplify has continually leveraged their resources and assets as part of Newscorp to offer digital curriculum that far exceeds that of many competing companies. Their newest curriculum combines a year’s worth of [...]
