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Developing Character, Courage & College Readiness 8 Jun 2013 | 05:53 pm
The Kerm Family Foundation recently convened several organizations that are reevaluating student character development and better preparing their students for college.
EdTech 10: Busting Myths & Taking Names 8 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
This week we’re blushing here at Getting Smart. How exciting to appear on the 2013 Honor Roll of Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs alongside many of our own favorites. Looking to beef up your summer blog readin...
ExamTime: Make Studying an Active Process 7 Jun 2013 | 06:13 pm
Learning is a lifelong endeavour. Students need to take responsibility for their learning. Through our software, ExamTime empowers students to build best learning practices into their study habits – g...
The Running Record, Now on the iPad 7 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
Reading is arguably the most important thing an elementary student needs to master and fluency, as the research shows, is a great indicator of how successful overall they will be.
Defining STEAM at Bracken Academy 7 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
What do you get when you add an “A” to STEM? You get an artistic and creative look at science, technology, engineering and math while creating an environment where students thrive.
President Obama Announces ConnectEd 7 Jun 2013 | 01:46 am
Today in Moorseville North Carolina, President Obama launched the ConnectEd initiative, something that the education technology community has been advocating for several years.
3 Tools to Tackle Common Core Math Standards 6 Jun 2013 | 09:20 pm
Summer is a time for teachers to take a break from the rigorous demands of day to day teaching, relax, and enjoy a change of pace.
A Proposal for Better Growth Measures 6 Jun 2013 | 06:09 pm
We create better growth measures by developing a system of comparable growth rates. It would require that an independent scale and a method of describing growth on that scale be adopted, along with a ...
The Interactive Economics Classroom with MobLab 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
This past week, MobLab, a mobile education technology startup focused on bringing hands-on experiences to students, visited BASIS Tuscon’s AP Economics and Experimental Economics classes, both taught ...
An Update on Apple in Education 5 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Apple in Education has come a long way with over 8 million iPads purchased by schools and colleges - 4.5 million by K-12 schools in the U.S. and with more than 75,000 learning apps now in the Apple st...
