EdTech
EdTech 10: Unabiding the Slide
This is the time of year when students are at the top of “Summer Slide.” Thankfully, for leaders in EdTech the end of the school year hasn’t slowed progress in developing new learning opportunities, platforms, and partnerships.
Five Activities That Helped Me Survive the End of the School Year
May we not just survive the end of the school year, but use the last interactions with our students and colleagues to set the pace for next year.
Edgenuity Provides Rich Student, Teacher Experience
Edgenuity is a robust content platform that offers full credit-bearing courses based on state standards and has already developed custom courses in 30 different states to align to specific state standards.
Schoology: Instructional Operating System Empowers Learning
Launched as a simple free social learning platform in 2010, Schoology includes enterprise features making it easier to create engaging content, design lessons and assess student understanding.
EdTech 10: Recentering for Students
This week’s news is about stepping back, reassessing, and reorganizing with results from reports, re-upping funding for schools and libraries, and award recipients to boot.
EdTech 10: Leading the Way
As we celebrate the launch of Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning, we’re equally excited to share this week’s top news from leaders in EdTech. Here’s this week’s top 10 EdTech news stories.
Alma: A Holistic Student Engagement Platform
One part student information system (SIS), and another learning management system (LMS), Alma’s main goal is to reclaim administrative and instructional time for schools and districts balancing multiple systems.
7 Personalized Learning Highlights
Our team shares what edleaders and organizations dedicated to bringing personalized learning to classrooms around the country reminded us this week.
Teachers Model Growth Mindsets During Twitter Ed Chat
By: Heather Ngoma. Ensuring teachers are comfortable with tech tools and social media for professional purposes is a top priority for the Rutgers Alternate Route program. Last month Rutgers immersed a cohort of new teachers in a facilitated discussion on Growth Mindsets via Twitter, here's the results.
Lessons for Parents on Pink Versus Blue Tech
By: Alison Bryan. As part of our Smart Parents series, Dr. Bryant shares specific lessons learned around the ways gender plays in role in how we allow our children to use technology. Alison encourages us to be more fully aware of our tech preferences and gender biases.