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Slooh Launches Its Next-Gen Platform to Engage Students in Space Exploration

eSchool News

Additional improvements allow educators to easily assign these learning activities and monitor student progress, as well as integrate Slooh with popular learning management systems including Schoology, Brightspace, and Google Education.

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Should Colleges Rethink Final Exams in the COVID Era? Some Profs Try 'Epic Finales'

Edsurge

This week’s podcast sponsor is PowerSchool, now with Schoology, a unified platform that brings SIS, LMS and assessment together for blended, distance and personalized learning. There are giant monoliths, trained chickens and robotic talking trash cans.

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Google Classroom: Top New Features to Learn Over the Summer #gafe

The CoolCatTeacher

Today Alice Keeler @alicekeeler shares the must-try new features of Google Classroom. She also teaches us how we can learn Google Classroom features and hacks over the summer (even without students.) A must listen for people using Chromebooks or Google Classroom. A cool feature that Alice suggested to Google. Listen Now.

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Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction

Edsurge

Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold. Mary's Academy building robots Using blended learning to personalize instruction Five years ago, SMA launched a 1:1 iPad initiative designed to put technology in the hands of every student so she could have greater control over her own learning.

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How Middle School Obsessions Can Shape Career Paths.

Edsurge

Collaborating on Google Docs, they came up with a handful of gaming- and hobby-related topics, such as how to create video games with Bloxels, Scratch and Code.org. Other students wanted to tackle creating worlds in Minecraft and figure out how to build their own robots and computers.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Google Classroom ? Google Classroom ? One of the adaptive learning tools this tech-rich district relies on is the Schoology learning management system, whose core focus is collaboration. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. Google voice typing ? Read & Write for Google ?

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. PowerSchool acquired the K-12 LMS Schoology. Google was fined $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube.