EdTech
Smart Cities Denver: Where Advocates & Partnerships Are Making an Impact
Denver benefits from passionate advocates and productive partnerships, but there is little EdTech innovation and few innovative blended school models.
Smashing Tools
App Smashing is using 2 or more apps to complete a project. Tool smashing works the same way but is not confined to a single device. My school is all Apple so my tool smashing does stay on the same platform. But your’s doesn’t have to.
Twin Cities Startup Weekend Education Event a Hit
Co-Authored by Chris Hesselbein and Mary Ryerse. Unfortunately, teachers are often so taxed by the immediate needs of their own students that they rarely have the time or resources to bring their solutions to scale.
Partnership Development: What You Need to Know
By: Marissa Lowman and Eileen Rudden. Partnerships can help your startup grow, but require a lot of effort to obtain and nurture.
EdTech 10: Put An Apple On It
Here is the weekly round up of the 10 top stories pushing EdTech forward, for both students and teachers.
The First Question: What Resources Are Teachers Using?
The first step in a digital conversion is to find out what’s actually happening in classrooms. What instructional materials are teachers using—and not using? What promotes engagement? What is easy to deploy—and what is a pain?
i-Ready Math: Adaptive Learning for K-8 Math & Reading
Made up of two main components—an adaptive diagnostic and instruction that includes both student online and teacher-led instruction and mobile apps, i-Ready provides an engaging and visually appealing approach to learning.
Canvas by Instructure: The Perfect LMS? Quite Possibly
Occasionally, things are not “too good to be true.” They are just that good and that true.
New- Google Classroom This Fall
Today, Google announced that using Google Apps for Education is going to get even easier to manage- this September, Classroom, the new learning management system developed by Google themselves will be available.
Get Rolling with SPRK Programming Curriculum
The SPRK curriculum is built on the belief that “play is a powerful teacher.” And rather than teaching students about programming by having them write lines of code on a computer, SPRK puts a Sphero and an iOS or Android device in students’ hands...