Educational Technology News

Online test success is one part preparation and one part functionality.

Online camps where kids can play Minecraft and learn coding skills are helping youths stay connected to a community of learners.

Ep. 76 Deeper Learning Through Collaborative Edtech Tools Drew Perkins talks with Soundtrap Education Ambassador Meredith Allen about using tools like Soundtrap to increase student collaboration and deepen learning.

"Technology has begun to transform how K-12 leaders track and manage student behavior, giving administrators real-time access to discipline information in the palm of their hand. But too often, the emphasis is on the negative behaviors students exhibit, such as being rude or late to class."

"Schools are taking advantage of live video presentations and Skype to access environments, speakers and scenarios they may never have been able to encounter otherwise, offering a different approach to class instruction, according to Ed Tech: Focus on K-12."

Students write a lot, and the issue of plagiarism (or, at least, wrong paraphrasing) remains topical. As educators, what can you do to help?

A leading education researcher looks at the evolution of “a disruptive force that is increasingly changing how we teach and learn.”

How can students best approach virtual learning for the most productive, skills-building learning?

The innovative learning model involves making videos for students to view at home, so class time is spent interacting.

"Blended learning is more than just a hot new trend in education—it’s the way classrooms of the future will work. The concept behind blended learning is to take the best elements of in-person classroom instruction and online instruction and combine them. In a blended classroom, students attend classes in person and watch lecture videos or complete online activities. Why use the blended approach?"

Education 3.0 is characterized by rich, cross-institutional, cross-cultural educational opportunities within which the learners themselves play a key role as creators of knowledge artifacts that are shared, and where social networking and social benefits outside the immediate scope of activity...

Blended learning has the potential to transform the way teachers teach and students learn—if we take advantage of all that it offers

We provide tips on how best to use flipped classroom videos to aid classroom teaching. Learn about flipped classroom learning, and how to best implement it.

The e-learning market, which includes everything from specialized skill training to guitar tutorials, will reach a staggering global value of $325 billion by 2025. To put that into perspective, the e…

In One to the World thinking, the role of the student as a problem solver with a purpose is a critical tenet.

"Imagine you’re in a high school computer class. The kids next to you just heard that Ben just changed his relationship status on Facebook. But when they go to log in and see for themselves, all they get is a block screen from the web filtering provider. This is technological intervention at its best.

Or is it?"

"Online credit recovery programs are cheaper and, some say, more efficient than any other option to help schools and districts boost graduation rates, and thus their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, Dallas Morning News reports."

Unconventional learning opportunities can now have the benefit of organization and collaboration tools.

As online assessments increase across the nation, tools are helping administrators navigate the sometimes-confusing assessment landscape

A superintendent charts his district’s journey to sustainable blended learning—and offers a roadmap for others to follow.

"Rush to implementation and a lack of staff buy-in, clear strategy and student investment are all big reasons why blended learning programs fail in some schools, according to two officials at Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut writing for eSchool News."

To flip learning is to model it in ways that brings a sense of responsibility among students towards their learning as well as..

Do online preschools offer the same benefits to children and cost savings to families that online ed claims to offer for older learners?

"Researchers found low-performers tend to be the ones drawn to virtual charter schools — evidence they say should prompt traditional district administrators to find out why and then develop new programs that will meet their students’ needs and preferences in-house."

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