Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos
It’s been over a decade since the beloved brick-building toy company Lego introduced Mindstorms, its robotics system designed to help kids learn programming, along with other science, technology, engineering and math concepts. We’ve featured Lego Mind…
Read More →The Student-Centered Netbook: Chromebook or Classmate PC?
It’s the schools that give each student an iPad tend to make headlines nowadays. No doubt, more schools are investigating tablets – Apple or otherwise – as part of their one-to-one computing initiatives, looking to replace not just desktop PCs but to …
Read More →Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For?
There seem to be three forces at play when it comes to education and social media. The first is a lack of force, quite frankly – the inertia that makes many educators unwilling and uninterested in integrating the technology into their classrooms. The…
Read More →How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content Are Changing Ed-Tech
I’m at the ISTE 2011 conference this week, which purports to be the premier ed-tech conference in the world. I’ll be reporting on the latest-and-greatest in education technology – in new technology innovations as well as how these tools are being inco…
Read More →Evernote Re-engineers Studying By Flash Cards With Its New iPad App
An elephant never forgets. And as Evernote’s elephant logo suggests, the note-taking platform already sees itself as a tool for storage, yes, but also for enhancing memory.
That couldn’t be clearer with a newly release app today: Evernote Peek (iTu…
Read More →Silicon Valley Execs Invest Over $3 Million in Rocketship Education
Rocketship Education, a network of K-5 charter schools, announces today that it has received over $3 million so far this year in philanthropic investments from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The funds will be used to help furthe…
Read More →Turn Your Evernote Notes into Study Guides & Flashcards with StudyBlue
Evernote doesn’t necessarily tout itself as an educational tool. Nonetheless the app has become incredibly popular among students, teachers, and researchers, and the company often highlights some of the innovative uses that these groups have devised i…
Read More →Learn Just the Foreign Language Phrases You Need With TripLingo
A lot of foreign language instruction is geared toward the travelling experience. But what that typically means is a few vocabulary lessons on shopping and a few key phrases on how to order from a menu. If you aren’t really interested in local dining…
Read More →Tim O’Reilly On What OpenCourseWare Can Learn From the Open Source Movement
This week the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of opencourseware. The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the course m…
Read More →Instructure Aims to Knock Down the Learning Management System Walled Garden
When I first heard of the new learning management system Instructure, I confess, I was unimpressed. Even though I try to be supremely supportive of education technology startups – particularly those taking on giants in the industry – I just couldn’t g…
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