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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 [...]
Samsung's popular phablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, is the official smartphone of this years Winter Olympics. To commemorate the occasion the South Korean technology giant has released a special edition Samsung Galaxy Note 3, TechnoBuffalo reported. The device is being packaged in a special 2014 Winter Olympics commemorative box. The device itself is being [...]
SNAPprints was another super-creative application on display at One Spark. Perhaps the only thing that held SNAPprints back from performing better in the popular vote was their location. They were tucked into the Bank of America building which, for whatever reason, did not see much traffic throughout One Spark. Anyhow, SNAPprints is a collaborative, event [...]
Lumos Smart Hub ISTE 2014 We saw a ton of great stuff at ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) 2014 Conference. That said, one of our most favorite products was the Lumos SmartHub. In a nutshell, the Lumos SmartHub is an in-classroom device that works as the centralized hub for all the various classroom [...]
If you're in Las Vegas for CES, or you're walking through the streets of New York City, or any other big city for that matter, you've probably seen Laurence Hallier's work. Hallier was instrumental in the taxi cab top advertising with his company Taxi Tops which was eventually sold to Clear Channel outdoor. Not it [...]
There's going to be a time in the not so distant future where the term flipped classroom won't exist anymore. Why, because in education in the future all classrooms will be flipped. (If you're not familiar with flipped classroom we've got a great overview here.). While the US is struggling with common core in an [...]
Zspace Virtual Reality Classroom The ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference 2014 was full of awesome EdTech products. However, there was one product in particular that really stood out. The zSpace was far and away the most interesting thing that we, or at least I, looked at. Although the zSpace was one of the [...]
Gripcase iPad Case For Kids The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference was a lot of fun for our six year old correspondent Tatum F. As we were pulling out of Atlanta we asked what her favorite part of the conference was and she said robots and throwing iPads. The conference featured over [...]
Over the weekend the tech press went crazy over news that Google purchased Boston firm, Boston Dynamics, a company that makes military robots. That acquisition was one of many that are helping to support Andy Rubin's current moonshot working on robotics for the internet giant. Of course the purchase of Boston Dynamics makes perfect sense [...]
In 2009 when Makerbot was just coming out people thought Bre Pettis was crazy. "No one is going to print plastic stuff at home". There was a certain novelty to the toys the company printed at TechCrunch Disrupt New York that spring, but visionaries clearly saw the future. In the ensuing four years the 3D [...]
Are you a diehard sports fan? Are you a pop culture or celebrity junkie? Are you keeping up with a fantasy sports team? Sure there are hundreds of ways to keep up with your favorite stars, athletes and celebrities. Sure you can use a news reader, Facebook updates, or even Twitter, but when it comes [...]
Looking through all of the various One Spark creator profiles, a few really stand out a huge, groundbreaking ideas. One such creator is Worldwide Multimedia Management. Although an incredibly young company, Worldwide Multimedia Management has some lofty goals.
If you know what a conjunction is or how a bill becomes a law because of School House Rock, you may really appreciate educational technology company, Flocabulary. They're teaching vocabulary, language arts, social studies, science and math through what they call educational hip hop. When we first heard about it we wondered how good the [...]
The most recent US Department of Education Assessment has revealed that "Only 24% of students currently write at 'proficient' level in eighth and twelfth grades." While some may find that statistic shocking and disturbing two big names in educational technology have teamed up to do something about it. Fablevision has been a leader in the world [...]
