CCSS and NGSS are driving curricula and pedagogical change. Coding those new curricular materials, imbued with the best research, in HTML5 will enable those materials to run on virtually every BYOD computing device in the classroom. You read that right: every computing device!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 08/31/15
According to the latest education survey conducted by PDK and Gallup, 97 percent of public school parents believe that teachers offer the best hope for improving the quality of schools. Only 19 percent put first priority on using test results to make changes.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/26/15
The new digital resource for use in grades pre-K–6 digitizes books and integrates them through a portal with audio, video, interactive activities, slideshows, Google maps, quizzes, curated Web links and keywords.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/17/15
Some states have begun to report the results of their Common Core-aligned state standardized tests from the 2014–2015 school year, and so far, most are showing increases in student achievement.
Stacie Isenberg, the technology integration coach at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District (PA), talks about helping teachers use the Shutterfly Photo Story app to teach to a variety of standards.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 08/17/15
The new versions of the digital learning tool are aligned to the state learning standards in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
A testing provider has had to reduce the value of its contract and kick in some free services for shoddy server performance during a major assessment period in Minnesota.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/11/15
A new set of digital assignments in math and English will be available this fall that are pegged to interim assessments intended to help students meet Common Core State Standards.
Certica’s 80,000-plus item bank of assessment tools will now be available via Skyward’s existing student management system.
Blockly for Dash & Dot Robots enables kids as young as five to instruct the robots to sound an alarm, work through a maze of objects and control one another.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/03/15