Solving 3 Key PBL Challenges

Here’s how schools are overcoming some of the biggest hurdles to effective project-based learning.

Immersive Learning Environments: An Untapped Resource for Differentiated Learning

As education principles continue to evolve, immersive learning environments offer an emerging and meaningful education tool.

Forget What You Think You Know about Summer Slide

Is the "summer slide" real? One education researcher recently questioned that assumption. The idea that students lose ground in their learning when they leave school for the summer break, suggested Paul von Hippel in an essay on Harvard's Education Next Institute website, can't be proved.

Two Important Lessons About Digital Transformation From Outside Of K-12

We have commented before on the Digital Transformation (DT) happening inside and outside of K-12. Well, sports fans, it’s DT time again! In this week’s blog post, then, we point out two lessons from DT outside of K-12 from which that those in K-12 might well learn.

Indiana Virtual Schools Close Prematurely

The Indiana virtual schools facing closure within months appear to have closed immediately. Parents reaching out to the charters, Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy, are running into dead ends. The phone number posted on both schools' websites leads to voice mailboxes that are full and no longer accepting messages.

2 Indiana Virtual Schools Closing This Year and Next

Two schools that have come to represent all that can possibly go wrong with virtual public school education are set to close.

'Devastating' Report Documents 'Broken System' in Providence District

When city and state leaders in Rhode Island saw the lousy results of a new standardized test among Providence Public School District students, they called in experts from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy to examine what the problems were.

Minority of Teachers Use Learning Standards-Aligned Curriculum

In four years of reviewing more than 90 percent of the materials in the "known" math and English language arts market, just 27 percent of math and 49 percent of ELA offerings aligned with learning standards. Furthermore, the data showed that just 15 percent of curriculum regularly used by ELA teachers and 23 percent of that used by math teachers have aligned with the standards.

ACT Acquires Social-Emotional Learning Company

Education assessment nonprofit ACT has acquired a company that specializes in the field of social and emotional learning (SEL). ACT purchased Mawi Learning, which produces SEL-focused educator professional development and student curriculum. Terms of the deal were not released.

Interest in Game-Based Learning Surges

A new report finds that game-based learning revenues will quadruple over the next five years, to reach over $24 billion by 2020.

Blackboard Adds Ally Accessibility Tool to D2L Brightspace

Blackboard's Ally accessibility tool is now available for D2L's Brightspace learning management system.

Buena Vista U Online Master's Adds Teacher Tech Integration Track

Iowa's Buena Vista University is launching a new track within one of its online master's degrees that uses Discovery Education's streaming service and teacher professional learning community.

Discovery Ed Adds Collaboration to Streaming Service

The new Discovery Education Experience (formerly Streaming Plus) will be available at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.

Apple Management Tool Adds Ad Hoc Classroom

Jamf Teacher has added an ad hoc classroom function that will allow students in "close proximity" to the teacher to get a notification inviting them to join, without the need for the IT organization to intervene in setting up the managed classroom.

Moonshot Competition Seeks Ideas to Revolutionize Education

Two organizations, one liberal and the other conservative, have announced a joint project to seek new ideas that will "revolutionize schooling." The deadline for applications is August 1, 2019.

New Kit Helps Teach Coding to Students in Grades 4–8

STEAM education technology company SAM Labs has released a new bundle to teach students in grades 4–8 how to code. The introduction of the Learn to Code Course Kit adds the upper elementary and middle school grades to the company's existing STEAM Course Kit, which serves grades pre-K–5.

Free Workshop Trains Teachers on Developing STEM Lessons

This month, New York University's Tandon School of Engineering is offering a free workshop for local middle school teachers on developing STEM lessons in the life sciences, physical sciences and mathematics.

Ozobot Classroom Aims to Make STEAM Learning Measurable

Ozobot is launching what it’s calling the first “STEAM learning management system,” Ozobot Classroom.

Report Defines State Policies for Future Teaching Workforce

The teaching community of the future will be equity-oriented, focused on continual improvement and committed to lifelong learning — but only if state policymakers set the right priorities.

Chicago Adds Elementary 'On Track' Indicators to School Grades

What's unique is that these are measures typically applied in high school rather than at the elementary level.

Esports League Bundling Gaming PCs into Membership

The High School Esports League, which claims a membership of 1,500 high schools, is offering the "HSEL Esports Equipment Bundle" for $4,000 per year.

Parents: Greater Grasp of Job Options Can Reduce Student Debt

A new study found that more than nine in 10 parents (92 percent) agreed that giving high school students more exposure to future career opportunities and experiences before they entered college would help alleviate student debt. A similar number (91 percent) said another way to alleviate student debt would be by giving students more opportunities to earn college credits before graduating.

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