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 | Jan 30, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Social media has many benefits, but there are certainly some side effects that are causing problems, especially for teenagers. A recent study by researchers from the Wales Institute for Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) found that 1 in 5...
by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
by Sarah Green | Jan 4, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We all know that kids like to play video games. Whether it’s Pokémon Go or games played on social networks or through phone apps, we’ve raised a generation of game-loving children. While some may think this will lead to the end of society as we know it, research has...
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2016 | Student Issues
There has been a lot of discussion about fake news and how it may have affected the recent presidential election. From clickbait sites to deliberately misleading sites to satire sites, and sites that may spread fake news by accident, the impact of fake news is...
