Blackboard acquires MyEdu to retool the LMS
Ask students what they remember from their learning management system (LMS) in college, and they’ll likely recall a clunky interface used to register for classes, download course PDFs…
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Want more women in tech? Fix misperceptions of computer science
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi recently wrote a blog post titled “The real reason there aren’t more women in tech,” says edSurge.
A Bill of Rights and principles for learning in the digital age
The internet has made it possible for anyone on the planet to be a student, a teacher, and a creative collaborator at virtually no cost, EdSurge reports.
How to move PD forward
The fact that there are plenty of companies touting video-based PD as more efficient, individualized, cheaper, and faster should not surprise anyone who has been in the education…
Esther Wojcicki: “American schools are becoming more like classic Chinese schools”
Hysteria. That is what I predict will be happening in education circles next year, EdSurge reports.
The 10 largest ed-tech funding rounds of 2013
According to market research firm CB Insights, venture capital investments in edtech companies during the first 6 months of 2013 ($481M) was down 26% from 2012 ($650M), EdSurge…
OPINION: So you use ed-tech, but are you an early adopter?
Early Adopters: There are usually one or two at every school and they are sometimes referred to as ‘power users’ - but they are more than that, EdSurge…
Do schools have the infrastructure to implement the Common Core?
How long can students stare at a frozen screen before their minds wander off? How long can they wait for a webpage to load during testing before losing…
OPINION: Learning to code isn’t enough
The 2020 Science report released in 2005 observed that science was changing in a subtle but fundamental way--from the use of computing to support scientific work, to integrating…
When ed-tech meets Montessori, kids rule ed-tech
Take a peek at Acton Academy and you may wonder if you’ve stepped into a mythical world where students are heroes, learning is a quest, and teachers are…
When can technology bridge the educational divide
Gadgets and software on its own will not improve education, EdSurge reports.
Why schools make bad buying decisions
Schools buy stuff badly, EdSurge reports.
Three lessons from Amplify’s melted charger
Last Friday, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina “suspended the use of Amplify tablets, cases, keyboards and chargers, effective immediately.”
Five essentials to create connected students
Recently we had a holiday, or at least it felt like one, edSurge reports.
Building a “startup culture” in schools
For most, start-ups and school districts couldn’t be more different, EdSurge reports.
What’s the difference between games and gamification?
Perhaps the best way to think about games in education is not to automatically call everything that looks like fun a “learning game,” EdSurge reports.
A checklist for engaging a school district’s central office
Many edtech startups (understandably) try to sidestep the complexity and bureaucracy of the central office, and go straight to teachers, edSurge reports.
How to succeed in a startup and still pass middle school
In elementary school, my friends and I would re-sell snacks that we purchased from Costco at a lower price than what the vending machines and lunch lady charged,…
A precursor to Google Glass in the classroom
EdSurge reports that one of the more interesting pieces of new edtech research is a paper by Telmo Zarraonandia of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in which…