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EXO U launches Ormiboard Pro Visual Creation Software

June 9, 2016 by Laura Ascione

At InfoComm 2016, EXO U Inc., a software development company, launched Ormiboard Pro, a visual creation and collaboration tool. Ormiboard Pro gives teachers and students the freedom to…

Innovation Insights

The Internet of Things is coming to your school

June 1, 2016 by Bridget McCrea

Internet of Things devices are cropping up in schools everywhere. IT is taking note -- and so are students.

District Management

Why digital PD needs an urgent overhaul

June 2, 2016May 31, 2016 by Sarah Brown Wessling

Technology, collaboration, and new standards are changing the classroom at a rapid pace. Every teacher's professional development must keep up.

News

Classroom displays new interactive learning technologies

May 12, 2016May 11, 2016 by Laura Ascione

BOXLIGHT Corp., an interactive classroom technology manufacturer and K-12 education solutions provider, has partnered with Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn to create a showcase classroom that will enable…

STEM & STEAM

Survey: Teachers now use twice as much gaming and video in the classroom

May 6, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Teachers' use of game-based environments and online apps has doubled in the last six years, according to the annual Speak Up survey released on May 5. The national…

Teaching Trends

14 sites to successfully crowdfund your classroom

May 2, 2016April 29, 2016 by Meris Stansbury, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

A closer look at today’s biggest crowdfunding sites for K-12 and beyond Crowdfunding, which harnesses the “crowd” to gain needed ... Read more

News

School Specialty unveils intervention program for low-level readers

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 by Laura Ascione

According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress – the Nation’s Report Card – only about 35 percent of U.S. fourth and eighth graders perform at the…

District Management

The benefits of adding video to teacher evaluations

February 29, 2016February 25, 2016 by Miriam Greenberg

A Harvard researcher shares her national perspective on improving professional development and teacher evaluations.

STEM & STEAM

Introducing the math selfie

February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 by Lana Sweeten-Shults, Times Record News

Sure, you may have taken a selfie, but you likely haven't taken an equivalent fraction selfie — and if you ask the Jefferson Elementary School fourth-graders in Jennifer…

District Management

What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

February 29, 2016February 15, 2016 by Jeanne Carey Ingle and Tanya Moorehead

Two educators put the research to the test. When (and how) are iPads most effective?

District Management

Certiport announces CERTIFIED 2016 Educator Conference

February 12, 2016February 12, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, a test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets, announced the CERTIFIED 2016 Educator Conference, a conference dedicated to helping…

District Management

How peer video coaching is completely changing how our teachers teach

February 2, 2016 by Diane Lauer

Peer-to-peer video comments are changing how one district's teachers think about their practice.

Curriculum

Proposed project-based school would rethink traditional learning

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 by Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Blended Learning

Good online teaching is often just plain good teaching

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 by Kelli Hicks

How does an online instructor teach a 19 year old to read and write when she doesn't even see him? The secret, one teacher learns, is all in…

IT Management

TabPilot launches app for classroom management

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 by Laura Ascione

TabPilot released Teacher Tools for iOS, an app that allows teachers to control student iPads in their classrooms with tools that have previously only been available through the…

District Management

New professional development focuses on engagement through gaming

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016 by Laura Ascione

The ever-increasing omnipresence of digital media in student’s lives can be challenging for teachers as they compete for kid’s attention in and out of the classroom. With this…

STEM & STEAM

K-12 science teachers in dire need of PD

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 by By Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

K-12 science teachers are often left to deal with a lack of coherent and sustained professional learning opportunities that researchers say are needed to support science teachers inside…

IT Management

Acer introduces ‘game-changing’ TravelMate notebook

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Acer on Jan. 20 announced its new TravelMate B117 notebook, tailor-made for the education market and powered by Windows 10 Pro. The notebook supports the Acer TeachSmart solution,…

District Management

Making classroom observations more efficient — and effective

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 by Kelly Gillespie

A custom web-based system is making for more thoughtful classroom observation Instructional leaders need to know what is happening when ... Read more

District Management

Classroom observations may hurt teachers more than they help, study says

January 26, 2016January 19, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Teachers might be at a disadvantage during classroom observation of their instructional practice, which is one of the most widely-used tools for high-stakes job performance evaluations. Research from…

IT Management

Inside the school that immerses students in Spanish — and technology

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 by Scott Spencer

A Spanish immersion program makes full use of technology in the classroom

District Management

Flipping the classroom when home access is a problem

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 by Jess Peterson

A lack of reliable internet access at home can make flipping a challenge, but by no means an impossibility.

Innovation Insights

What do we really mean by risk taking in the classroom?

January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by Trevor Shaw

It's important for students to learn risk taking skills. But how do schools do that without taking some big risks themselves?

STEM & STEAM

LEGO’s WeDo 2.0 teaches science, coding

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by Laura Ascione

LEGO Education has launched LEGO Education WeDo 2.0, a hands-on science solution designed for elementary classrooms using a robot-based learning system. The solution combines the LEGO brick, classroom-friendly…

STEM & STEAM

7 ways data collection is improving STEM education

January 12, 2016January 4, 2016 by Larry Plank

One district is getting students more active and analytical with data-collection tools, like probeware Today’s students, being technology natives, expect ... Read more

Teaching Trends

Optimizing Classroom Technology

December 22, 2015October 5, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Learning tools for the leaders of the future. Download White Paper

Teaching Trends

Chromebooks in Education: Using Google (Chromebooks) to flip your classroom

December 22, 2015October 5, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Filmed at BETT 2013, Bruno Reddy from King Solomon’s Academy in London shares his experience working with Chromebooks and Google ... Read more

Ancillary

Google Apps for Education

February 8, 2016October 5, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Save time and stay connected. Google Apps for Education: A Suite of Free Productivity Tools for Classroom Collaboration Download White ... Read more

Teaching Trends

Digital Citizenship Micro-Badge Courses

December 22, 2015September 29, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Competency-Based Certification courses are designed by a team of experienced credentialed teachers, administrators, curriculum developers, and EdTech trainers. Courses include ... Read more

Teaching Trends

Digital Citizenship Course

December 22, 2015September 29, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Outfit your students for life in the wild, wild Web where they need the savvy to shoot straight, watch their ... Read more

Teaching Trends

Why Learn Another Language

December 22, 2015September 5, 2015 by Jeff Festa

Download a free classroom poster on reasons to become bilingual.

Teaching Trends

Classroom Poster: Common English Idioms

December 22, 2015September 5, 2015 by Jeff Festa

A free, downloadable classroom posters that includes nine expressions every middle schoolers—native speakers and non-native English speakers alike—should know.

Everything Google In Schools

What Google’s virtual field trips look like in the classroom

February 8, 2016July 23, 2015 by By Stephen Noonoo, Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/stephenoonoo' target='_blank'>@stephenoonoo</a>

Last spring, Hector Camacho guided his high school economics class on comprehensive tours of the New York Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve banks, and the Treasury Building. Students swept…

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Mystery Skype Calls Connect Your Classroom to The World

May 11, 2019June 16, 2015 by By Katrina Keene

Mystery Skype sessions engage every student in the classroom as they search for clues and try and try and solve a mystery--where the other class is located.

District Management

Everything you never knew about using Google in the classroom

February 4, 2016March 24, 2015 by By Stephen Noonoo, Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/stephenoonoo' target='_blank'>@stephenoonoo</a>

Did you know you can see all your copy/paste history in Chrome in a click? Bookmark all your browser tabs at once? Create choose your own adventures in…

IT Management

Five strategies for using classroom technology

December 14, 2015March 16, 2015 by Laura Ascione

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…

Teaching Trends

The 9 essentials of crowdfunding for the classroom

February 10, 2015 by By Deirdre Sugiuchi

As funding for public education continues to decline, districts, administrators, and classroom teachers struggle to find ways to fill gaps left by budget cuts. Traditional school fundraising methods,…

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4 Essential Game-Based Learning Questions

May 11, 2019December 5, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a>@eSN_Laura</a>

You’d have to live under a rock to be unfamiliar with the rise of game-based learning in classrooms across the nation in recent years. Integrating a game into…

District Management

Six tips for classroom technology success

October 30, 2017November 11, 2014 by ESchool Media Contributors

The LEGO Education Advisory Panel (LEAP) advises LEGO Education, the education division within the LEGO group, on how to meet the needs of educators and students. The panel…

District Management

What will the classroom and curriculum of the future look like?

July 2, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

It's an interesting question: What will something look like or be able to do 5, 10, or 20 years down the road? Classrooms and curriculum are no different.…

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