Innovations in technology, the ways in which we use technology and the tasks that technology helps us accomplish are constantly being updated and extensively innovated. With the Olympics finishing up earlier this week, we got to thinking of athletes being at the very top of their game and how exactly they are able to get there.
Hey, did you hear that this coming week is National Robotics Week!? That’s right—from April 4-12, we’re celebrating the best of robotics in STEM education, from the learning opportunities they provide to the services they help complete! Find out how to make robotics a regular part of your curriculum!
At Eduporium, we search all over the world to try to locate the most useful, innovative, and exciting new technologies to deliver to the K-12 academic community. If products can boost creativity and spark a new enjoyment of learning, we’ll want to tell you all about them! With that said, let us present SpatialNote, a brand new space-related way to remember crucial things.
Technology is not something tangible you can pick up and put down as you please. It’s not a defined, solid object. And, as the world transitions into a tech-first approach to solving many of its most pressing problems, technology is no longer an option. It’s a tool that can be used to solve these daily problems and students need additional skills.
Could you type an essay blindfolded? Maybe, but even with all the hours you spend sitting on a swivel chair and punching keys, there’s almost no chance you could get through, say, a two-page paper scot free if you’re not looking at the text. What if you were asked to type the same two-page essay on your mobile phone? Could you do that?
There’s so much that goes into a successful EdTech rollout and not all of it comes from the effectiveness of the products. We’ve outlined how to use technology to create the most memorable learning experiences possible and who teachers should connect with in order to become tech teaching experts! Explore that and more in this week’s post.
“The role of a stage manager is an important and, at times, hectic one. They’re responsible for determining when the lights go on, when dancers go on and when sound goes on for a performance. So, you start the project by watching the ballet—watching the rehearsals—and understanding the sequence of timing,” Yolanda said.
Lexia is beneficial to teachers because it provides action plans or lessons to teachers to address misconceptions and errors. It provides users with a prognosis that shows the probability of meeting common grade-level benchmarks by the end of the year. It’s Common Core aligned to ensure that students are meeting the same goals as others around the country.
One of the hottest topics in EdTech throughout the recent months has been the subject of digital citizenship (or digital literacy). By designing classrooms that are more conducive to the specific needs of the students it surrounds for 180 days, those inside will become more eager to learn and, with increased engagement, see better academic results.
In the City of Atlanta in Georgia, a huge world class sporting event was held in the summer of 1996. It was the Modern Olympics. It was a great time for the city as it hosted countless visitors and athletes from all over the world. The city officials realized that the city would be ‘choked’ and grind to a halt.
