Tech and Learning News

New toys provide STEM activities to young learners

Personalized learning must embrace the need to engage the interests of the individual learner.

You should follow these 5 guidelines when it comes to hunting for learning at these educational events.

This interactive program will help you teach all about how forces work

The Stanford History Education Group website provides teachers with document-based curriculum and innovative assessments that are ready to use in the classroom.

What’s the bacon of social studies? That one thing that is so delicious that you need to integrate it into your classroom?

One Globe Kids - All Friends is an app that explores the lives of kids around the world through stories and games.

As educators, we must take that next step - teaching students to problem-solve and come up with algorithms of their own.

Dr. Rachel Wisnefski brings over 10 years of business development and education market experience to the position.

Digital Promise Global and HP team up to celebrate innovative middle and high school educators. Program includes attending the Digital Promise Challenge Institute this summer in Monterey.

ALEKS is a self-paced, self-guided, self-contained math learning tool for students to use mostly within a classroom.

The entire Lexia Learning K-12 literacy portfolio is now available on iPad.

Over Christmas break, I spent some time with my in-laws down in Ocean City. One of my favorite people to hang out with was there: my 3 year-old-niece. She is hysterical, 3 going on 16, and she loves to watch YouTube. Her favorite types of videos to watch are people unboxing toys, cartoons, and these weird videos about families going on vacation or otherwise living their day-to-day life. I earned some cool uncle points when I showed her my YouTube channel. She thought it was the neatest thing and asked if she could be on my channel.

This year's event includes a middle school Writing Bee that will take place concurrently with the Elementary Grade Writing Bee.

Google Earth VR is a version of Google Earth designed to work with virtual reality headsets such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

More and more educators and schools are using Facebook to connect with families. However, they might not be connecting with as many families as possible if they are not ensuring they are posting inclusive content. This is particularly important in places like New York City which serves a population where 20% of students have disabilities. About half of the population speaks a language other than English at home according to census bureau data.  

Is it right for your classroom?

February is not only Black History Month but also Career & Technical Education Month.

We started our project with a brief discussion about gaming using two World War One games.

A new brand from Buck Institute for Education focuses on improving access to Project Based Learning for all students