There has been a huge push to expose more students to coding and development. One of the biggest contributors to the gender gap in Silicon Valley and in the tech space across the country, is education. Seattle based code.org continues to find ways to help teach as many people to code as possible. You may [...]
Is your child ready for kindergarten? As the school year starts to wind down, parents everywhere are preparing their 4 year olds for their last summer at home, and hopefully it's off to kindergarten. Since there's no mandate on pre-k, nursery school or preschool, kindergarteners come into school with a variety of educational backgrounds. Some [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With Ponder, students tag and markup the reading by selecting from a rich menu of options to question and talk back to the text: e.g. “That's overstated.” OR “I need this broken down.” OR “What a clever example of inductive reasoning.”
As a follow up to our article on Google Glass in the Classroom, we thought it would be good to expound on some of the possible educational uses of Glass. Below, in a nifty infographic, 30 different ideas for how to use Glass in a classroom are touched on. While these are some great ideas, they represent a mere tip of the iceberg. As we touched on in our previous article, there are an almost infinite amount of applications for Google Glass in the classroom.
