by Sarah Green | Aug 31, 2015 | Student Issues
While many students look upon the advent of summer with wide grins and visions of impending laziness, others see it as a time to pack more unique experiences into their resumes and college applications. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are popping up on more and...
by Sarah Green | Jun 30, 2015 | News
Non-profit GlassLab has been working with PopCap Games and researchers at Florida State University to help develop a more educational version of Plants Vs. Zombies 2 (PvZ2), one of PopCap’s many successful titles. Called Use Your Brainz, the new title doesn’t make any...
by Sarah Green | Jun 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Looking for educational apps for your kids? A new study by the Association for Psychological Science can help. Since the iPad came out only five years ago, more than 80,000 “educational” apps have been developed, but they aren’t all created equally. Many aren’t even...
by Sarah Green | Nov 18, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
Learning how to read and write are the first big milestones in a child’s education. Rosetta Stone Inc., whom you have probably heard of from their popular foreign language-learning software, has worked in collaboration with the experts at Lexia Learning to create an...
by Sarah Green | Oct 30, 2014 | Teacher Issues
As I’ve written about before, apps and other digital technology are on the rise and are an increasingly affective way to teach. However, it must be understood that we are in the early stages of figuring out how to use technology in a meaningful way—or a way that works...
