7 tips for teachers building collaborative, fearless PLNs
Trigg County Public Schools Deploys ZeroEyes’ AI Gun Detection and Intelligent Situational Awareness Technology
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Rural district meets speech language pathologist shortage
In rural southern Mississippi, finding enough qualified speech-language professionals to fully serve a growing population of students with speech and language delays can be problematic. Stone County School…
Tool aims to help maximize learning for students with autism
A new cognition tool is intended to help higher-functioning students with autism maximize their learning potential when they demonstrate inflexible thinking and difficulty identifying relevant information. Skills Advanced…
Five strategies for using classroom technology
Technology and digital media continue to represent a powerful pathway for advancing the goals of education, including raising academic achievement and preparing students for college and career, according…
Zaption wins 2015 LAUNCHedu competition
The SXSWedu Conference & Festival announced Zaption as the winner of the fourth annual LAUNCHedu startup competition. After two days of pitching and judging, the announcement was made…
Online timeline platform launches out of beta at SXSWedu
HSTRY, an e-learning platform that enables teachers to create, explore, and engage their students through interactive online timelines, has launched out of beta following the co-founder’s announcement at…
4 maker myths debunked
Making, maker spaces, and maker labs have dominated educational discussions in recent months. How can schools create maker spaces for students? How can they link maker technology and…
Instructure and Pearson integrate LMS, SIS
Instructure, the creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for K-12, announced at SXSWedu that it has partnered with Pearson to integrate the Canvas LMS with student…
When data, privacy, and communication converge, schools are caught in the middle
Student data holds enormous potential to inform instruction and help students take ownership of their learning, but privacy and security concerns often impede progress when it comes to…
10 steps to making yours a STEM school
Simple ways to galvanize your school and community to improve outcomes in STEM subjects, such as engineering and biology.
6 things keeping your CTO up at night
What CTOs are struggling with, and how teachers and admins can be part of the problem, and the solution Short-staffed, ... Read more
10 data safety principles every school should be following
Are you following these best practices for safe data collection and use?
Districts boost students’ home internet access
Wireless provider Kajeet and IT solution provider CDW-G have partnered on the Kajeet Education Broadband program in order to ensure that students have the home internet access necessary…
For Pi day, a free virtual field trip all about 3.14159
To help celebrate Pi day, Discovery Education will host a live virtual field trip to the laboratories of the National ... Read more
A new recipe for digital, mobile learning
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) on March 6 unveiled two new resources for education leaders to take the digital leap in their schools. Launched through the organization’s…
How to make elementary teachers stronger in STEM
It's no secret elementary teachers are often weakest in STEM. A targeted PD program out of one university may help, according to these school leaders.
7 data-sharing resources for schools
Educators now have access to a playbook created as an effort to help school districts develop data-driven initiatives for student support and achievement. “Data Drives School-Community Collaboration: Seven…
New PD focuses on dyslexia
Literacy publisher MindPlay has introduced a new professional development program about dyslexia for K-12 teachers and parents. Understanding Dyslexia is an online program that helps teachers identify students…
5 helpful grant opportunities for STEM teachers
Each month we feature a grant roundup for teachers. This month focuses in on STEM.
District rolls out ‘neuroplasticity’ language development programs
Alachua County Public Schools, a district serving 27,000 students in North Central Florida, has partnered with Scientific Learning Corp. to help students improve their language, literacy and reading…
How Twitter influences the Common Core debate
Researchers tracked thousands of tweets on Common Core. What they found was a fascinating look inside the minds of supporters and detractors. University researchers Jonathan Supovitz (University of…
3 ways teachers can make learning more interactive
Today’s students are a uniquely interactive group. Most of the 80 million Americans who are part of the millennial generation—a group that comprises the lion’s share of today’s…
Are students getting enough STEM?
Washington residents are concerned about the state’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs, according to a survey conducted by Washington STEM, a nonprofit aiming to improve innovation…
This tool is aiming to be the WordPress of online course creators
As an educator, it’s hard to please today’s tech-savvy students with PowerPoints and lecture-on-video—but those are exactly the kinds of tools available for educators who don’t have time…
Miami-Dade partners with myON for literacy goals
Florida’s Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the United States, is implementing myON in all 250 of the district’s K-8 schools for the 2014-2015…
New platform supports Windows apps in the cloud
A new visual cloud platform that runs Windows applications in the cloud could have big implications for school and district IT staff. The solution from Mainframe2 enables Windows…
How safe is my student data?
A few years ago I was attending a meeting at my county office, where a vendor who runs a popular education site was making a presentation. If I’m…
New STEM PD program targets admins
With a $500,000 commitment from Chevron, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has launched a new initiative to support school administrators as they work to strengthen teaching and…
‘Collaboration Nation’ offers $50K to one tech-savvy district
Collaboration Nation, a new awards program from CDW-G and eSchool News, will recognize the nation’s finest examples of collaboration and successful educational technology projects. CDW-G will share the…
Try these mobile and web tools to improve parent-teacher communication
When I was in high school, no one emailed my parents to tell them I had a test. No one sent a reminder to tell them that I…
800 new digital learning activities help prepare for PARCC and SBAC tests
Compass Learning recently announced its Pathblazer math and reading intervention solution and Hybridge blended learning solution have been enriched with more than 800 new digital learning activities for…
Skyward introduces new test bank management solution
As school districts prepare students for assessments, administrators are looking for tools that ease teacher prep time, address established curriculum, and encourage schools and districts to share assessment…
Admins target metrics with new analytics dashboard
Panorama Education, which partners with K-12 schools to collect and analyze feedback from teachers, parents and students, has launched a new Leadership Dashboard designed to provide principals and…
District implements new school locator technology
Iowa City Community Schools recently launched a new school locator technology as part of the district’s comprehensive plan to communicate 2015-2016 elementary school year boundary changes to students’…
Why overwhelmed educators should stick to these simple tech tools
