Common Sense Media Graphite A year ago at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Diego Common Sense Media introduced Graphite. Common Sense Media is the company, that for the past eleven years, has provided parents, families, care-takers, and educators a simple and easy to use platform to find out if [...]
Panasonic Classroom Safety Panasonic's IR Audio System for classrooms is best in class. It's a feature packed audio system for the classroom that insures that every student can hear the teacher clearly. What sits at the center of the system though, is actually around the teachers neck. A lightweight remote control of sorts is integrated [...]
Open Source Smart Table As an alternative to expensive multi-touch display surfaces, a group of hobbyist engineers decided to try to build their own and in doing so, open source the hardware and the software. What came together was a community created project called the Play Surface at playsurface.org. Of course there are multiple [...]
Big Grips iPad Case Test There are plenty of iPad case manufacturers out there that claim their cases are made for kids. Some have done exhaustive testing and deemed that yes they could be put to the test, and some have been implemented in classrooms and lived up to their claim. Our six year old [...]
Buzzmob School Communications Platform, ISTE 2014 A real communications problem exists in many schools and many school districts across the country. Schools use automatic voicemail, texting solutions, Facebook, and even notes home to communicate with parents. Typically all of these solutions are from different service providers sans the notes home, that's old fashioned print outs, [...]
There are a lot of companies out there making a name for themselves by saying that they are teaching kids how to program in a very short time. At ISTE 2014 we actually saw it happen when Terrapin Software taught our six year old special correspondent, Tatum, the fundamentals of programming in under ten [...]
Panasonic 3E ISTE Sunday th first big day at the International Society for Technology in Education kicked off with a big bang from Panasonic with the help of their partners Intel and Microsoft. In a standing room only press event, Panasonic took the cover off of the brand new 3E 2-in-1. Rance Poehler, President of [...]
As tens of thousands converge on Atlanta for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference we wanted to compile a good list of resources for those attending the conference. Bookmark this list on your smartphone and have an amazing conference. The official ISTE mobile app is amazing it provides a complete overview of [...]
Six Year Old Covers ISTE You don't get much more blunt then the opinion of a six year old. That's why 6 year old Tatum F is helping with our coverage of the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) conference coverage. With hundreds of products on hand in the ISTE exhibition hall, specifically geared [...]
Teacher Observation Classroom Mosaic No one will dispute the fact that technology in education is exploding. This weekend will start the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, the largest gathering of education technology in the world. Tens of thousands of educators, administrators and other ed tech professionals will gather for the three day [...]
