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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

I think we all knew, even back then, that technology could one day deliver on the long-held dream of helping teachers to differentiate instruction for every student. Technology can be pen and paper, or adaptive software, or whatever is most helpful for the learning task at hand. Not the other way around. Today, 99% of U.S.

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How n2y’s Solutions Are Shaping the Classrooms of Tomorrow

N2Y

A classroom library developed using the n2y library in Unique Learning System. I was just recently introduced to the n2y classroom resources and software through my college course, and I have been blown away. Examples of these include: A picture schedule from SymbolStix PRIME. A collection of recipes from News2you.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Screencast-O-Matic comes in the form of software that you can download and works across Chromebooks, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS. It’s a public digital library dedicated solely to OER.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence.

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What you Need to Know about K-12 Fundraising Tech

Technology Tidbits

A read-a-thon supporting your school library. When your school takes part in an a-thon fundraiser using online fundraising software, your student participants (or their parents) receive customizable pages that they can share via email, text, and social media with their friends, family members, and other connections.

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Google Apps and Chromebooks Web App Recommendations - a whole lot!

Educational Technology Guy

Teachers can use MoveNote to explain directions to individual students, making it easier to differentiate instruction. As MoveNote calls it, it is ‘Presentations with Emotions.’ All this for free on the Chrome Web Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. How does your library manage digital collections?