Ten school districts are part of a new free program to help school leaders identify funding opportunities and maximize their efforts to get access to in-demand resources.
While teens consider it important to follow current events, they prefer to get their news from social media rather than from news organizations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/10/19
A cloud collaboration application from ClearOne has been updated with new classroom functionality. COLLABORATE Space now includes question and answer participation, providing each student with an electronic "hand raise" capability, as well as moderator control over audio and video for up to 100 participants.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/28/19
Ed tech company FreshGrade has introduced FreshGrade Next, a platform that uses the technology of social media to organize and assess learning and allow administrators, teachers, students and families to communicate.
The majority of teachers are communicating with parents at least weekly, but a third of families (34 percent) remain "hard to reach and engage" throughout the school year, according to a survey from ClassTag.
Parent engagement app Bloomz is offering $10,000 to one school's parent-teacher association as part of the company's Spring Cleaning giveaway.
Dropbox Education and Klaxoon have partnered to add Dropbox integration to Klaxoon's collaborative tools for teams.
Nonprofit Hypothesis is offering an app that allows for “open annotation” of web content. The organization is especially interested in wooing educational users (both K-12 and higher ed) to serve as test pilots.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/15/19
Microsoft gave the green light this week for organizations to deploy the Microsoft Teams app on Surface Hub devices.
Social media can pose risks to students' privacy, but these risks can be managed with informed, intentional use. There's also a huge upside: Teachers can use social media to share best practices, provide an authentic audience for students' work, cultivate and model digital citizenship among their students and build more connected school communities.
- By Common Sense Education
- 09/10/18