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Learning Resources | News

IBM Offers Free Internet Security Training Tools

IBM has released free training tools designed to help students, teachers, and parents improve Internet security.

Science Education | News

Students Explore the Moon in NASA's GRAIL Mission

Video taken of the far side of the moon by NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission will be used in classroom's across the country with footage taken by MoonKAM ("Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students") cameras.

Learning Resources | News

Questia Library App Now Available for iPad

Questia, an online research tool for students, has launched a new version of its free Questia Library app to make it compatible with the iPad.

Learning Resources | News

DreamBox Expands Web-Based Math Learning Tool to Grade 5

DreamBox Learning has recently extended its web-based K-3 math teaching tool, DreamBox Learning Math, with additional lessons and an intermediate learning platform for students in grades 3-5.

Learning Resources | News

Partnership for Los Angeles Schools Launches Digital Learning Strategy

The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools will mark the nation's first Digital Learning Day on February 1 with the launch of a digital learning strategy in its affiliated schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Learning Resources | Briefs

Brief: Sunburst Digital Lorenz Partner for SWYK Online

Sunburst Digital will handle national sales and marketing for Show What You Know Online, a web-based system to be released this year that provides remediation lessons, games, and online assessments aligned to Common Core State Standards. It is designed to help teachers and administrators track progress district-wide, by school, grade level, class, and standard.

Gaming | News

RPG Teaches U.S. History to Middle Schoolers

A new online and desktop-based RPG is putting middle schoolers in the role of an escaped teenage slave as she flees to the North and joins up with abolitionists in Ohio.

FETC 2012 | Briefs

StudySync Supplemental Curriculum On Display at FETC

StudySync, an online supplemental curriculum from BookheadEd Learning, is offering one-on-one demonstrations this week in booth 1138 at the Florida Education Technology Conference in Orlando.

Classroom Technology | FETC 2012 News

StrataLogica To Gain Smart Notebook Integration

StrataLogica, a Web-based educational geography tool, is gaining integration with Smart Technologies' Smart Notebook software for interactive whiteboards.

Learning Resources | News

Kurzweil Releases Web-Based Literacy Tool

Kurzweil Educational Systems, an assistive technology maker that is part of the Cambium Learning Technologies group, has unveiled Firefly, a new Web-based resource designed to improve student literacy by offering access from anywhere to digital, text-based material.

White Papers:

  • Desktop Virtualization in K-12 Schools: Reducing Costs, Saving Time And Delivering Anytime, Anywhere Access for Students and Staff PDF screen shot

    This paper will show how desktop virtualization can positively position educational institutions for the future, enabling them to reduce expenses through hard dollar savings and time efficiencies while delivering the experience that students, faculty and staff need and desire. Through the experiences of Babylon School District, as well as Manchester Essex Regional School District in Massachusetts and Rockford Public Schools in Michigan, we’ll paint a picture of how desktop virtualization can revolutionize education’s approach to delivering technology — an approach schools can actually afford. Read more...