Redbird Advanced Learning: Innovation Through Research
Stanford recently selected Redbird Advanced Learning to develop and commercialize its Education for Gifted Youth program products. The first new product is Redbird Mathematics, a K-7 supplemental...
View ArticleEncouraging Students To Prototype And Pay It Forward In Real-World Ways
With the Perpetual Innovation Fund from Digital Harbor Foundation, educators receive a 3D printer and training to use in their classrooms if they can produce a business plan for how they and the youth...
View ArticlePearDeck: A Fruitful EdTech Tool
This interactive website and Google Drive app adds interactivity to any slideshow by integrating free-text responses, multiple choice answers, freehand drawing renditions, drag-and-drop indicators,...
View ArticleFishtree: Learner Profiles Drive Adaptive Learning
Dublin-based Fishtree combines content from any source and type mode, automatically aligns it to standards, and delivers it on any device in ways unique to each learner based on their learning...
View ArticleThe Virtual End Game: Pearson’s Cite 2015
Instead of just celebrating technology for technology’s sake, educators are thinking about how these tools impact their students and themselves, and how to use digital tools in the service of...
View ArticleAlma: A Holistic Student Engagement Platform
One part student information system (SIS), and another learning management system (LMS), Alma’s main goal is to reclaim administrative and instructional time for schools and districts balancing...
View ArticleWhy Cultivating Nonconformity is More Important Than Ever
Typical parenting and teaching strategies promote risk mitigation and conformity. Thiel and Cowen suggest that it is more important than ever to encourage young people to think for themselves. The post...
View ArticleMaking Something of National Week of Making
Andrew Coy, Executive Director at Digital Harbor Foundation, kicked off Rec2Tech.org, an initiative to replicate his success at turning surplus property into a maker hub. The initiative offers a, “New...
View ArticleYour Students can be “Makers”: 16 Projects Invented by Teachers
New York City, The Big Apple, a global hub for innovation and invention from the Otis elevator through the MakerBot 3D printer. The perfect location for teachers to flex their own innovation and...
View ArticleEvery EdTech Conference Should Emulate the Energy of iPadpalooza
With conferences we need to know people are more than their current role or amount of Twitter followers. When those deemed “presenters” or “featured speakers” take the chance to really make meaningful...
View Article9 Ways to Get Your Grammar Game On: A Playlist
At the end of nearly every school year, a few parents will ask me for recommendations for websites or apps to help their children review grammar over the summer. So with the help of my colleague, Sarah...
View ArticleRobots & Implications For Life On Planet Earth
It's hard to know how the growth of robots and maker learning tools will all play out but three near term educational implications seem clear. It will let kids show what they know, and there will be...
View ArticleNo Cost. No Catch. How One Company Hopes to Close the Achievement Gap
By: Lucy Kosturko. Educational agencies talk a lot about achievement gaps. One emerging factor--technology--has shown both positive and negative effects, which begs the question: Do EdTech solutions...
View ArticleOpportunity: The Heart of Passion-Based Learning
I am forever grateful to these teachers for all they instilled in me, and these creative opportunities now constitute the very heart of one of my favorite projects offered to students in "Studio 113"...
View ArticleWhy Students in My Schools Can Test Drive Careers
By: Dr. Patrice Prujol. A Louisiana superintendent shares more about the success of Course Access in her school district helping students try out careers they might not have found otherwise. The post...
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