Please join veteran teachers and math curriculum experts Kari Till & Lauren McCrone as they discuss how to incorporate virtual manipulatives into your daily teaching. They share current research on how students respond to these manipulatives and incorporate examples from computer-based learning. Twitter Facebook Google+ Home
In this webinar we discuss strategies and techniques for using data to drive your instruction. We will share tracking techniques, processes, and how you can use results to improve your teaching. Twitter Facebook Google+ Home
Sitting a child down to do math sometimes involves a batch of superglue and lead weights, but put them in front of a video game and you need to remove them physically from the couch. Despite the different reactions to the two, math and video games have a lot in common. Both involve logic, the […]
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It is mid-August. The smell of freshly waxed floors and newly painted lockers flows throughout the halls of the school. Your school is ready for teachers and students to arrive. New technology and curriculum purchases have been made, and this year will be the one that everyone embraces. Teachers will cheer as they enter and […]
Much has been made in recent years of the integration of technology into classrooms. Portable devices, educational apps, interactive whiteboards and even augmented reality are all becoming common – if not essential – tools for students of all ages. Accessible technology opens up avenues for teaching and learning that are only just now being explored. […]
What if you told your students that the same technology that makes Iron Man a superhero is going to help them finish their math homework? As technological development rushes on at breakneck speed, devices that once would only have existed in the pages of comic books are steadily becoming commonplace. From personal computers to smartphones, […]
You’ve probably noticed the video game industry taking over the world. Digital games are now ubiquitous: they’re on our laptops, our tablets and cell phones, even on planes. In 2013 over 58% of Americans played video games and it’s predicted that in 2015 worldwide video game market revenue will reach $70.1 billion. While video games […]
October 21, 2015. Today is the day that Marty McFly will arrive in the fictional town of Hill Valley to save his ne’er do well son from disaster. While Zemeckis’s future made some false promises – where is my Hoverboard?! And my flying car?! Where I am, I do need roads. Badly. Like a caveman. […]
The findings of the recent OECD report, New Approach Needed To Deliver On Technology’s Potential In Schools, is concerning, but not unexpected. If computers and tablets are being used to present ‘gamified’ worksheets or as passive ebook readers, then it is not surprising that they fail to make any positive impact on students. Once upon […]