The last year of lockdown and learning from home was undoubtedly the most challenging year for teachers in a generation. Now that students are returning to class, we face new challenges. Students hide ...
Littered with overhyped claims, corporate corruption scandals and abandoned pilot projects that teachers never quite embraced, the history of ed tech is a messy one. But in recent years, valuable ...
Teachers who use Google Classroom as their primary ed-tech platform now have the option to integrate other digital learning resources into the Classroom experience. ZDNet spoke with Google Classroom's ...
The Classroom Technology Services (CTS) team at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Office of Information Technology had two primary motives for getting a better handle on tech usage on campus: 1) ...
It’s 2024! Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and ...
Voice technology has become a familiar presence in the home, but now it’s on the verge of making a breakthrough into the classroom. Around one in four U.S. households now have a smart speaker, with ...
In her advanced placement psychology class at Springfield High School in Holland, Ohio, teacher McKenna Reitz began using Google Classroom during the pandemic. She’s never looked back. “Now I have the ...
Teachers have reported that they’re more confident than ever about educational technology, but a recent study from AdvancED found that there are still very few classrooms where technology is a regular ...
A century and a half before Apple marketed iPads to schools, in 1857, a Greek-born Harvard professor, Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, held a bonfire of newly introduced “blue books”, bound exam ...
Classroom technology has been revolutionizing learning ever since people in Mesopotamia used the first abacus all the way back in 2700 BCE—and it has been moving especially fast since the latter half ...
Preschool teachers can carve out tech-free spaces and ensure that when technology is used, it serves as a bridge for ...
Two years ago I helped lead a student immersion trip to Ecuador. Along with a dozen or so students, I spent a week learning about the challenges faced by people living in deep poverty just outside the ...