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Blackboard acquires MyEdu to retool the LMS

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Ask students what they remember from their learning management system (LMS) in college, and they’ll likely recall a clunky interface used to register for classes, download course PDFs…
STEM & STEAM

Want more women in tech? Fix misperceptions of computer science

January 10, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi recently wrote a blog post titled “The real reason there aren’t more women in tech,” says edSurge.
Curriculum

A Bill of Rights and principles for learning in the digital age

January 6, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
The internet has made it possible for anyone on the planet to be a student, a teacher, and a creative collaborator at virtually no cost, EdSurge reports.
District Management

How to move PD forward

December 24, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The fact that there are plenty of companies touting video-based PD as more efficient, individualized, cheaper, and faster should not surprise anyone who has been in the education…
District Management

Esther Wojcicki: “American schools are becoming more like classic Chinese schools”

December 19, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Hysteria. That is what I predict will be happening in education circles next year, EdSurge reports.
Teaching Trends

The 10 largest ed-tech funding rounds of 2013

December 10, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
According to market research firm CB Insights, venture capital investments in edtech companies during the first 6 months of 2013 ($481M) was down 26% from 2012 ($650M), EdSurge…
IT Management

OPINION: So you use ed-tech, but are you an early adopter?

December 6, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Early Adopters: There are usually one or two at every school and they are sometimes referred to as ‘power users’ - but they are more than that, EdSurge…
District Management

Do schools have the infrastructure to implement the Common Core?

December 2, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
How long can students stare at a frozen screen before their minds wander off? How long can they wait for a webpage to load during testing before losing…
STEM & STEAM

OPINION: Learning to code isn’t enough

November 25, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The 2020 Science report released in 2005 observed that science was changing in a subtle but fundamental way--from the use of computing to support scientific work, to integrating…
IT Management

When ed-tech meets Montessori, kids rule ed-tech

November 22, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Take a peek at Acton Academy and you may wonder if you’ve stepped into a mythical world where students are heroes, learning is a quest, and teachers are…
IT Management

When can technology bridge the educational divide

November 5, 2013October 16, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Gadgets and software on its own will not improve education, EdSurge reports.
District Management

Why schools make bad buying decisions

October 9, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Schools buy stuff badly, EdSurge reports.
IT Management

Three lessons from Amplify’s melted charger

November 5, 2013October 8, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Last Friday, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina “suspended the use of Amplify tablets, cases, keyboards and chargers, effective immediately.”
IT Management

Five essentials to create connected students

November 5, 2013October 4, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Recently we had a holiday, or at least it felt like one, edSurge reports.
District Management

Building a “startup culture” in schools

October 1, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
For most, start-ups and school districts couldn’t be more different, EdSurge reports.
IT Management

What’s the difference between games and gamification?

August 22, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
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.
District Management

A checklist for engaging a school district’s central office

August 14, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Many edtech startups (understandably) try to sidestep the complexity and bureaucracy of the central office, and go straight to teachers, edSurge reports.
District Management

How to succeed in a startup and still pass middle school

August 12, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
In elementary school, my friends and I would re-sell snacks that we purchased from Costco at a lower price than what the vending machines and lunch lady charged,…
IT Management

A precursor to Google Glass in the classroom

November 5, 2013August 6, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
EdSurge reports that one of the more interesting pieces of new edtech research is a paper by Telmo Zarraonandia of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in which…

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