In an interview with Infoworld.com, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Woz) made some profound statements about technology and education. An important thing to know about Woz is that he's not just a computer engineer. Upon leaving Apple Woz became a fifth grade teacher. He's also written about education and technology in his book "I, Woz" and [...]
Brainly group was created in mid 2012 following the successful performance of the concept in Europe. The group consists of multiple social learning networks, each creating an online community where students help each other by solving subject specific problems and exchange knowledge.
Lightning Grader allows educators to easily build assessments using the multiple choice format (à la Scantron), but also allows such other formats as true/false, math equations, as well as both short answer and essay questions. What's more, the Lighting Grader assessments are printed on normal, regular printer paper, thus eliminating the need for special paper.
The Ladibug is incredibly interesting, and really a modern day overhead projector. It works in very much the same way as an overhead projector, but through a digital projector. Essentially, you plug the Ladibug into a computer, and transmit the video captured from the Ladibug through a digital projector.
While we were at the Florida Educational Technology Conference we were surprised to see that Encyclopedia Britanica, Worldbook and Scantron are still alive and kicking. But what's even better is that Scantron has evolved over the years to become one of the biggest players in Big Data for educational analytics. Yes, we're talking about the [...]
One of the hardest things for educators to do is to send information to their students in a quick manner. Remind101 thinks that the answer to this problem is by utilizing text messages
Educators and school administrators spend an extraordinary amount of their time performing these tedious, mundane tasks. StudentGlance has a solution for one of the most tedious of these tasks: class list creation. As Carmen Conner - the CEO of StudentGlance - told us at FETC, elementary school teachers often create class lists using tedious manual techniques that often take hours and hours. StudentGlance automates much of the process, and generates class lists as much as 90% faster than the current methods.
Kindervention - from Abrams Learning Trends - solves a very real problem in early childhood education. According to a statistic given on the Kindervention brochure (PDF), more than one-third of entering kindergartners don't know all their letter names. That is not the major problem, though. The problem arises out of a lack of resources. While many school districts perform diagnostic screenings of entering kindergartners, and often are able to identify the at-risk students. However, many teachers aren't afforded the time and resources to provide the additional instruction and support to these at-risk students.
When VGo, was first introduced the use cases were very clear. They showed off VGo robots being used as receptionists. They also showed people who used the VGo to work remotely. One engineer showed off how he could use a VGo at his companies main office in San Francisco and easily tele-commute from his New [...]
Creativity and collaboration are two fundamental pieces in today's educational space. A new iPad app called Drawp is bridging both of those things together and at the same time making them easier Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that's built for more professional applications. This means that kids can [...]
