EdTech
EdTech
Coding Is Not Just For Computer Programmers
If the thought of learning how to code has ever crossed your mind (more likely it hasn't, but that's alright), good news: the current climate for programmers in America couldn't be better.
Personalized Learning
Transforming Special Education with iPads in LAUSD
Working with 20 students at various levels of ability, with significant learning disabilities and multiple handicaps, it is extremely difficult to meet all their varying needs with textbooks, paper and writing utensils
EdTech
#Edtechchat Discusses Tech for the Flipped Class
Last night #edtechchat joined forces with #flipclass chat and the result was an endless flow of great ideas, thoughts and conversations around the best tools and methods for flipping the classroom.
EdTech
What Blended Learning Looks Like in Kindergarten
Last year, Barbie Gossett volunteered to turn her Kindergarten classroom into a blended learning environment. Along with 7 other teachers from elementary to high school, these pioneers introduced blended learning to their students as well as to the entire Lawrence district.
Ed Policy
DLN Launches Myth Busting Online Learning Paper
Today DLN, iNACOL and Getting Smart launched a myth busting paper focused on online learning as part of the DLN Smart Series.
EdTech
10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer
These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!
EdTech
#EdTechChat-Prevent Summer Slide with Digital Tech
TONS of great ideas shared tonight during#edtechchat! The archives will be a gold mine :)
Leadership
TechGirlz to Host Second Annual Entrepreneur Camp
TechGirlz, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering girls to be future technology leaders, will host its second annual Entrepreneurship Camp in Philadelphia from July 8-12.
Uncategorized
Why Aren’t There More Virtual Science Museums?
Why aren’t there more virtual science museums? (And when I say “science,” I mean “STEM-related.”) If a major barrier to access for science museums is their physical location or cost of admission (or both), why aren’t virtual museums flourishing on the internet? According to 2011 Census Bureau data, 71.7% of households in the US have access to the internet and there are about 2.4 billion internet users in the world. Although problems with access persist, and visiting a virtual museum isn’t quite the same as getting up close and personal with real objects, virtual museums could have great potential for increasing the reach of informal STEM education.
EdTech
Techlandia, For Your Listening Pleasure
I’m not exactly sure how my love of listening to podcasts transformed into recording one, but over the last six months it has. We now Google hangout every Saturday night to talk about 3 apps, 3 good people to follow on Twitter and 3 cool things happening in education, strip the audio from the Youtube, post it to iTunes, and label it Techlandia.