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Learn how to create your own engaging videos that you can record, edit, and deliver out to the world without the expenses associated with a large studio or equipment.
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November 2, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Last year, Kim Crosby spent about 80 percent of her class time teaching math concepts at Waukesha STEM Academy in Wisconsin. For the other 20 percent, she helped students individually.
This…
June 21, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Don’t kid yourselves, guitar heroes: Racking up mega-scores with that fake guitar won’t get you any closer to playing the real thing. But if students really want to learn the…
June 20, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
More than a year after the release of a Harvard University report encouraging the development of more pathways to careers for young adults, a coalition of six states has begun…
June 20, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
American children do much better identifying the correct answers to simple scientific tasks than using evidence from their experiments to explain those answers.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called…
June 20, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Discussing education reform at Stanford University last year, the leader of one of the nation’s largest teacher unions decided to turn the tables and ask a question of the audience.
“You’re…
June 19, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
When Portland, Ore., elementary school teacher Sacha Luria decided last fall to try the new education strategy called “flipping the classroom,” she faced a big obstacle.
Flipped classrooms use technology—online video…
June 19, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
State officials in West Virginia have spent $90,000 on 286 new video game systems in the hope the machines can be used to motivate 21st century schoolchildren to exercise.
The state…
June 15, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Child predators, cyber bullying, and untrustworthy teachers are just some of the internet scandals often discussed on the news concerning youth and online safety. And while programs in schools are…
June 15, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has added to its College Affordability and Transparency Center, highlighting colleges and universities with the highest and lowest tuition and net price, and those…
June 15, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
