Breaking News Alert: Bloggers Are Getting Smart
News broke out late Thursday that there's some discrepancy over the real role of Getting Smart Bloggers. The blog's team of teachers hold strong with the statement that they're spending their time "getting smart." Yet, other sources claim that the bloggers are simply putting their feet up, wasting their time with 140 characters.
Educator Demonstrates STEM Concepts With Origami
An educator at Jersey Shore Middle School in Jersey Shore, PA published a video on origami hang gliders that float on waves of air. The video explores the ways that the paper hang gliders model the same concepts as hang glider pilots, surfers and more to create lift to carry weight over a wave of air or water.
10 impact opportunities for donors and sponsors
Are you looking for investment opportunities to improve equality and equity in education? This week, we’ve compiled a list of 10 great philanthropic and sponsor opportunities: Make new state tests as good as possible by sponsoring a design prize for innovative math and logical reasoning assessment items. The first two…
How to Leverage Backchanneling & the Long Tail of Learning
We’ve all been there. Two colleagues across the room tap away at their phones, while the principal describes the rationale for cutbacks in funding for new technology initiatives. (Or switch out the colleagues for students while you are delivering an essential lecture on freedom of speech.) Their jabbing thumbs are punctuated by muffled giggles, as the digital text flies across the room. Is this a rude disruption or an extension of learning?
What I’m Seeing: Productive Post-Secondary
Wow, the edtech space seems to have exploded. The number and quality of startups is remarkable as is the inflow of talent and investment. Over the next weeks I’ll discuss some of the emerging capabilities I’m seeing in these ten categories: Productive post-secondary: taking outcomes and value seriously…
Apps: Students Tap Into Video for Physics Learning
We experience concepts of physics daily. Whether we're walking, playing sports, driving a car, the concepts are naturally occurring all around us. What if we could capture the movement around us to learn and evaluate basic physics so that we could then learn to identify it daily in our lives?
Edupreneur Inspires Artistic Creativity With Math as a Medium
Meet Eli Luberoff. He skipped out of kindergarten, took a month off from sixth grade, dropped out of eighth grade, and then left high school altogether two weeks into tenth grade before graduating from Yale University. Yet despite these early challenges in the education system, he’s decided to devote a career to improving the experience for others by becoming one of the market’s newest entrepreneurs.
Deeper Learning Not Lighter Journalism
One thing that really disappoints me is newspaper reporters that try so hard to be cute that they miss–or botch–a story. Stephanie Simon from Reuters is a pandering case in point. After a number of my colleagues invested a lot of time with her discussing the Hewlett Foundation sponsored Automated…
Infographic: The Decline of STEM Education in the U.S.
A focus in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) began officially with the launch of Sputnik 1 October 4, 1957. This launched the beginning of NASA and government-mandated funding for students interested in STEM careers. From this point forward, a series of dominos fell on funding, scholarships, foundations and more to stimulate U.S. growth and expansion of science. This had a dramatic affect on generating increased interest in STEM until 1992.
10 Elementary Learning Apps Recommended by a Speech Therapist
Increasingly, apps and games are used in the classroom to motivate learning around language, math and more. Many companies are leveraging the talents and specialties of education professionals and therapists to deliver increased learning quality in its technologies.