Tech & Learning Opens ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards By TL Editors Tech & Learning's ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards celebrates those products and services being exhibited at ISTE that show the greatest promise according to the country's most tech-savvy educators.
Kahoot! Introduces Smart Practice for Challenge Feature By TL Editors With the new smart practice feature, students can revisit difficult questions, remember content better, and collect emotes as a reward.
LEGO® Education and FIRST® Introduce New Architecture-Themed LEGO sets By TL Editors The new sets for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League season are based on the theme of architecture and are titled BOOMTOWN BUILD℠” and CITY SHAPER℠.
Putting the “T” in STEM! 60+ Resources for Teaching Children with Technology! By Shelly Terrell All resources have a free version or trial for educators and many are registration and ad free so that students don’t have to give their private information.
Baseball, Earth Day and STEM Teaching Resources for April By Deborah Marshall and Lisa McKnight Ward Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2019, is the perfect day for students to discover what their footprint shows.
Today's Newsletter: Tragedy Illuminates the Power of Virtual Field Trips By Steven M. Baule Even with the flashing lights of the fire apparatus showing in the video, we can visit the remains of the Cathedral of Notre Dame via this Digg video.
Space and the 'Breath of Art': How Out-of-This-World STEM Education Is Transforming Schools By Carie Lemack Students can now take what they have learned in the classroom and conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 3: Questions, Process, Metacognition, and 15 Pre-Search Tools By Michael Gorman What are the strategies that are important to research before a student enters that first keyword in the search box?
4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Limit Tech Use to A Communal Area By Lisa Nielsen Innovative educators should help parents see past simplified safety advice like: only use technology in a communal area.
Building VR Experiences to View in the Oculus Go App @oculus @cospaces_edu By Micah Shippee The challenge for fields focused on learning and training is to leverage these technologies to achieve meaningful objectives.
What's New in Google - March 2019 By Eric Curts Catch up on everything new in G Suite for Education from March 2019, and see great ideas and resources!
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 2: 10 Resources for Student-Owned Questions By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
Increase Screen Time to Increase Literacy Proficiency By Lisa Nielsen While click-bate headlines love to scare parents and educators about the risks of screen time, it’s not that simple.
My Education Superpower By Chris Aviles Tangential learning is the process by which people self-educate around a topic if it is exposed to them through something they already enjoy.
bulb Digital Portfolios unveils bulbLibrary By TL Editors Diverse resources provide educators with timely support for summertime professional development
Tech & Learning Opens ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards By TL Editors Tech & Learning's ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards celebrates those products and services being exhibited at ISTE that show the greatest promise according to the country's most tech-savvy educators.
Kahoot! Introduces Smart Practice for Challenge Feature By TL Editors With the new smart practice feature, students can revisit difficult questions, remember content better, and collect emotes as a reward.
LEGO® Education and FIRST® Introduce New Architecture-Themed LEGO sets By TL Editors The new sets for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League season are based on the theme of architecture and are titled BOOMTOWN BUILD℠” and CITY SHAPER℠.
New Personalized Learning Toolkit Introduced By TL Editors “Whereas I used to spend time researching activities and planning agendas for my schools, I am now able to leverage the resources directly from the kit," said Heather Hurley, supervisor of personalized learning at Arlington Public Schools.
Registration Open for Learning Impact Leadership Institute By TL Editors IMS Global Learning Consortium's 13th annual Learning Impact Leadership Institute will be held in San Diego, California, May 20-23, 2019.
New ISTE Book: How to Close the Digital Divide for Students By TL Editors A 2016 survey of 1,200 parents revealed that while 94 percent of families are connected to the internet, 23 percent access it on mobile devices, 26 percent share a single computer and 20 percent experienced loss of internet service due to lack of payment
CoSN Honors Educators at Annual Conference By TL Editors Each year during the Annual Conference, CoSN honors distinguished school technology leaders, experts and districts for their school technology accomplishments and dedication to advancing innovative learning settings.
STEM Educators Win 2019 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards By TL Editors Each winning educator received $1,000 in cash, $3,000 in Vernier products, and up to $1,500 toward expenses to attend the annual NSTA National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri on April 11–14, 2019.
Peerless-AV Announces SmartMount Line of Motorized Carts and Stands By TL Editors Peerless-AV announces its family of new SmartMount® Motorized Height Adjustable Carts and Stands for education settings.
Typing.com Introduces Free District Accounts and Support Features By TL Editors “It’s our mission to make sure every student has the opportunity to learn the fundamental success skills of the 21st century,” said Austin Butler, Founder and President of Teaching.com, the creators of Typing.com.
Nearpod Acquires Flocabulary By TL Editors Together, Nearpod and Flocabulary are used by teachers in 97 of the 100 largest US districts.
Active Education By Jim Beaugez Active learning is gaining traction today thanks to the continuing evolution of AV technologies.
Tech & Learning Opens ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards By TL Editors Tech & Learning's ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards celebrates those products and services being exhibited at ISTE that show the greatest promise according to the country's most tech-savvy educators.
Kahoot! Introduces Smart Practice for Challenge Feature By TL Editors With the new smart practice feature, students can revisit difficult questions, remember content better, and collect emotes as a reward.
LEGO® Education and FIRST® Introduce New Architecture-Themed LEGO sets By TL Editors The new sets for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League season are based on the theme of architecture and are titled BOOMTOWN BUILD℠” and CITY SHAPER℠.
New Personalized Learning Toolkit Introduced By TL Editors “Whereas I used to spend time researching activities and planning agendas for my schools, I am now able to leverage the resources directly from the kit," said Heather Hurley, supervisor of personalized learning at Arlington Public Schools.
Registration Open for Learning Impact Leadership Institute By TL Editors IMS Global Learning Consortium's 13th annual Learning Impact Leadership Institute will be held in San Diego, California, May 20-23, 2019.
New ISTE Book: How to Close the Digital Divide for Students By TL Editors A 2016 survey of 1,200 parents revealed that while 94 percent of families are connected to the internet, 23 percent access it on mobile devices, 26 percent share a single computer and 20 percent experienced loss of internet service due to lack of payment
Today's Newsletter: Tragedy Illuminates the Power of Virtual Field Trips By Steven M. Baule Even with the flashing lights of the fire apparatus showing in the video, we can visit the remains of the Cathedral of Notre Dame via this Digg video.
CoSN Honors Educators at Annual Conference By TL Editors Each year during the Annual Conference, CoSN honors distinguished school technology leaders, experts and districts for their school technology accomplishments and dedication to advancing innovative learning settings.
STEM Educators Win 2019 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards By TL Editors Each winning educator received $1,000 in cash, $3,000 in Vernier products, and up to $1,500 toward expenses to attend the annual NSTA National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri on April 11–14, 2019.
Peerless-AV Announces SmartMount Line of Motorized Carts and Stands By TL Editors Peerless-AV announces its family of new SmartMount® Motorized Height Adjustable Carts and Stands for education settings.
Creative Design App Combines Augmented Reality with 3D Printing By TL Editors Teachers create and assign lessons to classes, and kids use the app to create scenes using the object library or uploads from Thingiverse.
Free Digital Library Provides Millions of Primary Sources for U.S. History By TL Editors The layers of rich documents, images, and videos are carefully organized and curated, and can be accessed through topical browsing, searching and filtering, or in pre-made exhibition collections and primary source sets.
Biblionasium Social Reading Site Earns Top Ratings From Educators By TL Editors Biblionasium is a social network that allows students to log books, review them, and share or recommend them to fellow kid readers.
Green Screen Technology Powers Amazing App By Tech & Learning Students can create original videos with dynamic, interchangeable backgrounds using green screen technology.
