by Sarah Green | Nov 12, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
According to a recent study performed by a graduate student in Sweden, most educational software isn’t actually helping students. Björn Sjöden, who led the study, claims that only about 17% of math and Swedish teaching software, out of the top 100 apps in those...
by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Is it possible to predict a student’s college GPA using modern technology? According to a professor at Dartmouth, it is! The app is called SmartGPA and uses a smartphone’s ability to sense a person’s activity and passively measure the kind of behavior that affects...
by Sarah Green | Oct 6, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention Company have designed ScratchJr, an iPad app designed to teach the basic principles behind coding languages to very young children. ScratchJr’s main audience is students as young as 5–7 years...
