by Jana Hoff | Aug 23, 2017 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Technology has been moving fast in the past few years. New developments have opened avenues for teaching and learning that weren’t possible less than a decade ago. Technology that started out merely as time-wasters and distractions are now being used to enhance the...
by Sarah Green | Apr 5, 2017 | News, Student Issues
All across the nation, students are running help desks at their high schools. And they’re doing so for class credit. It all started in 2011, when Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts, rolled out over 1,000 iPad tablets for student and teacher use....
by Sarah Green | Feb 6, 2017 | News
Education technology, or edtech, is a pretty big business these days, but it had more humble origins. In the beginning, teachers were simply talking to each other about the best hardware and software that they had found. But now that school districts are getting in on...
by Sarah Green | Nov 23, 2016 | Student Issues
A recent study has found that about 75 percent of college students, based on responses from undergraduate and graduate students at four-year institutions, make use of closed captions and transcripts when viewing videos for class purposes. These students said they use...
by Sarah Green | Mar 10, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Sixth, seventh and eighth-graders will be getting a modern update to English Language Arts education – a catalogue of digital curriculum featuring e-books, dramatic readings, story animations and role-playing games will be hitting classrooms the 2014-2015 school year....
