4 Top-Rated Interactive Whiteboard Apps for Flipped Classrooms
Common Sense Media’s service Graphite, which offers independent ratings and reviews of learning apps and websites, has compiled this list of apps that facilitate collaboration among mobile devices in a flipped classroom.
More8 Middle Schools Receive Thousands of Tablets From Digital Promise
Nonprofit Digital Promise is donating thousands of tablets, along with specialized PD, to eight middle schools across the country through a Verizon Foundation grant.
MorePersonalizing Instruction With 1-to-1 and Blended Learning
Rich Boettner, the chief technology officer at Hilliard City Schools (OH), details how his district started with a technology task force and ended up using 1-to-1 computing to facilitate blended learning.
More15 Apps Every Principal Should Have
Whether fostering collaboration, easing communication or tracking Common Core, these mission-critical apps keep today’s principals connected with their colleagues, students and parents.
MoreThe History of Ed Tech Shows It's Not About the Device
In a companion piece to a wildly popular article on the history of educational technology, we trace the trends of the present and look to the future, all with an eye toward helping districts find the right device for their classrooms.
MoreReport: Smartphone Shipments Set To Top 300 Million in Third Quarter
Smartphone shipments reached a single-quarter high in the second quarter of 2014 with 295.3 million shipments, an increase of 23.1 percent over the same period in 2013.
MoreViewpoint: Tablets Are a Fad — They’ll Largely Disappear in 2–3 Years
The iPad came out of the Apple chute in 2010 like gangbusters, setting all kinds of sales records. Schools picked up on the iPad too. But the tablet is a fad, we argue; it will pass away in short order (two to three years) because it is neither a mobile device nor a work device – and folks (and schools, we should hope) want those two types of devices!
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