An education technology company that develops digital literacy curriculum is opening up an online summer school. "Summer TechUp," from Learning.com will target students in grades 6-12 with modules in digital literacy and computer science. Topics will cover keyboarding, robotics and Python coding.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/19/20
Trying to predict where we're headed in education for the fall? According to one long-time educator in Wisconsin, if your thinking is focused on how to catch students up to where they should be, "you are asking the wrong question."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/18/20
Recent research by the NWEA projected major declines in student learning, particularly in math, but also reading.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/15/20
The research project quantified how much less likely low-income and non-white children and youth were to have access to the internet than their peers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
The largest district in Iowa distributed almost 21,000 laptops to students during April to enable them to attend classes online.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
TherapyTravelers has been able to link 250 therapists with school districts, providing remote therapy to about 10,000 students.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
The Virtual Teaching Academy, an initiative by the University of Phoenix and Blackboard, is intended to help educators develop a blueprint for teaching in the next school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/14/20
Zoom has some new competition. Google has just made premium functionality in its online video meeting software freely available to anybody with a Google email account.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/13/20
A new nonprofit maker organization is working with a company that creates computer kits to encourage people to make respirators for their communities.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/13/20
Two recent surveys have examined the social and emotional well-being of K-12 students but from opposing sides — one focused on the students and the other focused on teachers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/13/20