Education technology company Kahoot has added integration with Microsoft Teams.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/26/20
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
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
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
As educators delve into the world of remote and online learning, we must be mindful of the need to retain professional boundaries at the same time as working to maintain a high level of support for students.
Nepris, which produces a library of career videos and sets up industry connections between industry and classrooms, has launched a "virtual classroom," that combines real-time instruction with K-12 classroom management functionality.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/04/20
Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, comments on digital equity; why the internet has just become a major need, not just a want; and how school could change for the better next fall.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/04/20
Most K-12 educators are still not ready to teach online. It would be foolhardy to overlook this reality.
Doing school work remotely is different from handling it in-person. For one, teachers can't necessarily see how a student is accomplishing class work and may therefore make faulty assumptions about how it was done; and two, the education technology that facilitates online learning collects data on the student and the interactions, frequently without the student even knowing, let alone opting in.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/30/20
Make sure your district is covering the legal basics as you develop your remote instruction efforts.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/23/20