Remove Books Remove Broadband Remove Gamification Remove Laptops
article thumbnail

35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations.

EdTech 135
article thumbnail

65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Teachers want programs that they can implement immediately: not just something they read from a book.

EdTech 117
article thumbnail

Four game changers

Learning with 'e's

He wanted to clarify a few points, including a response to the critique of the One Laptop Per Child projects. OLPC is premised on the basis of one child interacting with one free laptop, in many ways a counter to social forms of learning witnessed in communal contexts such as Mitra's Hole in the Wall project. Wayne Mackintosh.

OER 53