It can be overwhelming when trying to find a technologies that are affordable, have longevity, and an easy learning curve. It’s not even that there are not enough like this out there. It’s that there are now too many. We’ve got you covered with five affordable EdTech tools to take into your classroom to start the new school year.
The fact is that not all students learn in the same ways. Some are visual learners. Others need to hear things multiple times before it sticks. And, still others require a hands-on component so they can learn by doing. There is no wrong way when it comes to students’ learning style preferences and 21st century teachers have taken notice of this.
It’s incredibly discouraging, but, for one reason or another, women have not always had the same opportunities when it comes to STEM careers as men. To provide girls with the opportunities they deserve, educators have to get them interested from the onset. Whether it’s during the school day or during the summer, girls need more opportunities.
Mobile learning is making its way into K-12 education just as mobile technology is making its way deeper and deeper into our everyday lives and the best way for students to stay connected and be able to learn on the go is with Chromebooks—affordable, portable, and educational laptops for the 21st century.
If you’re so inclined to come visit us during our three days at the ISTE Conference, we would certainly welcome everyone, especially teachers, librarians, administrators, and makerspace leaders! If you need some more convincing, here are some extra incentives for you to drop by our interactive booth!
MakerEd includes everything from informal constructive play with everyday objects, glue, and tape to large-scale 3D printing or sometimes even some digital fabrication. Modern makerspaces have become a popular place for creative-minded students to show off their making skills and inventiveness and thousands of educators have now built in-house areas for making.
At Eduporium, we all know what it takes to provide an enriched, authentic, and inclusive 21st century education that will truly prepare today’s kids for real-world challenges. We also know this isn’t easy for principals and their teachers to attain. There are burdens to innovating in education, including, most notably, high costs of modern learning tools.
As time goes by, virtual reality is becoming more than an insanely cool way to play video games or watch movies. It’s helping train STEM professionals and prepare people for the workforce and some of the common uses that could soon be a regular part of virtual reality. It’s also an effective instructional tool across K-12.
If there are two students in the classroom and one is following along, trying to stay awake while a classmate recites a passage from their textbook and the other one is living the concepts the first one is reading about, which do you think is more fully engaged? No, this isn’t a trick question. The answer is Student 2 and the reason is active learning opportunities.
Virtual reality is coming. And, it’s coming quicker than most of us realize. Even in education, virtual reality is finding its way into the classroom and offering students the chance to explore learning with a technology that’s unlike anything else. With its immersive capabilities and incredibly vivid graphics, VR is poised to disrupt education.
