App of the week: Wanderful Storybooks
This Storybooks sampler presents pages from seven award-winning children’s books. These are fully interactive and animated apps.
Month: August 2013
Weekend Roundup: Top 5 posts this week
This has been a great year for eSchool News. Please enjoy our top 5 articles for this week: Five follow-worthy ... Read more
Get them while they’re young
Starting pre-school poses tests for any four-year-old: sitting still, the risk of a yucky lunch, missing home, The Economist reports. The stakes are still higher for 700 small…
Data drunk — Let’s take the ass out of assessment
The Huffington Post reports that truth -- or the passionate pursuit of truth -- should always be a guiding principle in the educating of our children. So we…
Back to school: Tech for high school
Never before have teens been so tech-driven, and educators desperate to connect with them have noticed. What's more, they're responding, ReadWriteWeb reports. Creative learning formats and tablet-based curricula…
Chinese students coming to US middle schools? It’s starting to happen.
Peggy Wang has lived in China her entire life, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A successful, English-speaking executive, she frequently travels abroad for work, but never imagined that…
Five education trends for the new school year
education-trendsTrends in education are always appearing, such as iPads and online testing (and remember virtual reality classrooms?), but with recent developments in national standards and a new federal…
First 7 ‘Steve JobsSchools’ open in Netherlands, tout education through iPad
The first seven "Steve JobsSchools" officially opened their doors in the Netherlands on Wednesday, kicking off an ambitious experiment in child education where Apple's iPad is the main…
D.C. charter schools to give standardized tests to young children
The use of standardized tests to measure very young students keeps expanding, The Washington Post reports.
In defense of multiple-choice
The value of multiple-choice in education has been a topic of debate since its invention in the beginning of the 20th century, Edudemic reports.
What’s the difference between games and gamification?
Perhaps the best way to think about games in education is not to automatically call everything that looks like fun a “learning game,” EdSurge reports.
The best tweets of the week for education
Here are the education-related tweets that we found most enlightening, helpful, or interesting this week.
Prezi Poll
Prezi.com is free cloud-based presentation software described as having “the biggest impact on business presentation tools since Microsoft’s PowerPoint.” Prezi ... Read more
How we’ve raised more than $25,000 by recycling eWaste
The Waugh Elementary School District has raised more than $25,000 for its ed-tech needs over the last decade—simply by recycling electronic waste through FundingFactory.
How to lecture like Steve Jobs (or Ashton Kutcher)
Jobs, the new film documenting the life of Steve Jobs and Apple, will likely be one of the most talked about summer movies.
Engaging, educating students with chemistry app
This summer’s chemistry section at University of Illinois-Springfield began with the same challenge that I always face with my students: how to get them to engage with the…
Nurturing a STEM sisterhood
The Huffington Post reports that a popular adage holds that it takes a village to raise a child.
Five mistakes to avoid when flipping your class
When Aaron Sams and I first started flipping our classes in 2007, we made a lot of mistakes, John Bergmann blogs.
Facebook-led project seeks internet access globally for all
Facebook Inc's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Qualcomm Inc and four other companies for a project aimed at bringing internet access to people…
Microsoft offers schools free Surface RTs as Bing search rewards
Microsoft has launched a new ad-free search product, Bing for Schools, with an incentive program that rewards schools with free Surface RT tablets, ZDNet reports.
