EdTech
Education Technology is a multi-billion dollar sector of companies innovating in both software and hardware for teaching, learning, and running schools, districts, and state and federal education departments. We document some of the most essential technical innovations and companies that support learning, teaching and more.
5 Tips To Kickstart Your Classroom Technology Integration
By: Maria Petrovska. In an effort to help other teachers interested in kickstarting technology integration in their classrooms, a teacher shares five tips to get started as well as edtech choices she finds helpful.
Smart Review | Better Writing Feedback From WriteLab
WriteLab writing software provides formative feedback at the sentence level, the ability to share drafts with peers and instructors and other features to encourage students to practice and improve their writing.
EdTech 10: Taking a HigherEd Path
This week’s edition shares stories on providing today's students with the opportunity to choose highered as their path after high school.
20 Math and ELA Tools that Support English Language Learners
As part of our #SupportELL series, we have summarized some products, services and tools that support English Language Learners (ELLs) and their teachers.
Designing Digital Learning Professional Development
digiLEARN has selected 20 Digital Scholars from across the state of North Carolina to design a plan for what digital learning professional development should look like for their educators.
Do You Have A Blended Learning Department? You Should.
Washington, D.C., is an interesting place for education, as we recently witnessed while touring schools there with a group from Kansas City to learn more about what the district has done to blended and personalized learning.
EdTech 10: Measure Twice, Learn Once
This week's EdTech 10 includes stories on the importance of measuring learning as well as examples of the many different types of learning that can be measured.
Why and How Personalized Learning is Transforming Texas Education
Texas schools are shifting rapidly from print to digital content, and these blended environments are enabling a new level of personalized learning in the state's schools.
5 Ways to Encourage Inquiry-Based Learning
By: Kristine Scharaldi. Here are five strategies for teachers that encourage inquiry-based learning and provide ways for all students to be actively involved in the classroom.
How Do We Teach the Internet?
By: An-Me Chung. By 2025, 5 billion people will be online. So how exactly do you teach necessary Internet skills to billions of new users? This interactive Web Literacy Map could be used by educators as a foundation for learning and teaching the Web.