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Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM

EdTech Magazine

These fun yet functional resources are rapidly taking their place alongside Chromebooks, laptops and wireless routers in classrooms and computer labs: Teq: Before you get started in STEM, professional development is a must. Robotics kits: Products like the Sony KOOV and HamiltonBuhl’s HB Invent! by Dan Tynan.

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The Wild and Amazing World of Augmented Reality

Ask a Tech Teacher

Requests : Trigger to a Google Form to request time with the teacher, librarian, or another professional. ISTE-suggested AR resources for the classroom. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

The courses employers have been helping to create don’t just teach skills students need to work for Microsoft, Amazon or Google, like the highly specialized training classes that are longtime industry standards — Linux System Administration, for example, or Office 365 Fundamentals. Soni is more blunt.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

Leveraging the power of the volunteers to improve student reading outcomes requires an understanding of the instruction, the students’ needs, the data, and the resources themselves. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ? TECH USED ? READ 180, System 44, iRead, MATH 180 ?

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5 ways virtual reality is being used in education right now

eSchool News

Considering Sony Playstation’s VR headset sold out in pre-order last week, most of us are aware that virtual reality (VR) technology is hot right now. With the donations, we’re making sets of Google Cardboard and phones to create traveling VR stations for classes in all of our buildings.”.

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Android apps for the applying level of Bloom's

Kathy Schrock

This is an edited re-posting of a blog post in 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. This is the third in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning.

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Android apps for the remembering level of Bloom's

Kathy Schrock

This is a re-posting of a blog post of July 12, 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. The image below includes both the original and revised taxonomies as well as the mapping of the levels to make it more clear when identifying resources to support them.

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