Rob Schwartz, a teacher at a blended learning magnet school, shares how design missions validate "the individual over the content" and give students the freedom to fail.
The latest release of Chalkup includes improvements to the user interface, a course calendar and a way for students to estimate their workload.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/26/15
Smart Technologies is introducing Smart kapp 84, a new digital capture board with roughly triple the surface area of the first-generation Smart kapp 42.
This spring, Smart Technologies is introducing Smart Notebook 2015, the latest version of its collaborative learning software.
In a national survey, we asked teachers, administrators and tech leaders to tell us what it takes to make a 21st century classroom run smoothly. Here’s what they said.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/19/15
People who share news on social media may be more engaged, and for longer, with the news they share than those who read the news casually, according to researchers at Penn State University and the University of Connecticut.
Designed to help educators offer interactive teaching aligned to the Common Core State Standards, MimioStudio 11.3 classroom software and the MimioMobile 3 mobile app are available for free to current Mimio customers.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 01/14/15
Mersive has updated its Solstice software to expand the mirroring capability of Apple iOS devices.
A study looking at the use of a collabrified text editor by fourth- and fifth-graders showed a small but positive effect in favor of the group using the collabrified text editor, with an interesting condition: The low SES students benefited more from working collaboratively than did the high SES students. VERY suggestive, indeed!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 01/13/15
Facebook continues to be the most widely used social network among online adults, according to a new survey from the University of Michigan School of Information and the Pew Research Center.