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The Best Free Word Processors Of 2020: All the best alternatives to Microsoft Word

Why pay full price for Microsoft Word when there’s an absolute bevy of great free word processors out there that can do the job just as well? If you’re a ...
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The Best Free PDF Editors Of 2020: All The Best Options For Editing PDFs

PDFs have become the document type of choice at high schools and universities around the world. PDFs are the most versatile file type around and are made to ensure consistency ...
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The Best Tablets For K-12 And College Students 2020: All The Best Options For School ...

Blended learning environments are now the rule and less the exception in both K-12 schools and universities worldwide. While a great laptop is critical for increased chances of student success, ...
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The Best Video Editing Software Of 2020: All The Best Options For Classroom Use

If you’re a journalism student or teacher looking to make waves in your field, you’re likely going to have to become well-acquainted with video editing software. The difference between a ...
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The Best Webcams Of 2020: The Top Webcams For Your Computer Device

If you’re not using a new-generation laptop with a built-in HD webcam, your options for quality streaming and video calls aren’t as limited as you may initially think. In fact, ...

Child Development Tech Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Higher Education EdTech

5 Ways Technology Is Making Students Anxious

Psychological well-being as measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness suddenly decreased amongst students after 2012. This decrease in psychological well-being and increase in anxiety levels are linked to the ...
Child Development Tech Early Childhood

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea It used to be that parents sent their young children to kindergarten to prepare them for elementary school. Now things have developed to ...
Child Development Tech

Less Screen Time and More Socialization

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that we spend too much time in front of a computer screen. We work in front of a computer, check our ...
Child Development Tech Parent & Family Tech

How to Talk to Parents About Safety on School-Provided Technology

With the advent of digital learning, learners have been exposed to several technologies and devices such as Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops at school and home. However, these devices have more ...
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Can Too Much Screen Time Cause Developmental Delays in Young Children?

In our modern age, more parents and teachers are turning to technology than ever before. Screen time is a normal household occurrence even with young children who might be too ...

Teachers

Why Teachers Hate Algorithms

Does a formula for true love exist? According to The Marriage Pact, it does. The Marriage Pact is a well-defined algorithm that eliminates ambiguity in relationships. It takes away all ...
Teachers

10 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers

Teaching, as we all know, is a highly difficult and underappreciated career. However, luckily for us, we educators have access to some of the best resources available through the medium ...
Teachers

10 Top Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels to Boost Middle School Classroom Lessons

Middle school can be an extremely challenging grade level to teach. With students leaving childhood but not quite entering adolescence, it can be difficult to keep their attention in the ...
Teachers

10 Top Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels to Boost High School Classroom Lessons

By high school, most students are well-versed in the use of technology. From social media to gaming to chatting with friends, teenagers almost expect a certain level of technology use ...
Digital & Mobile Technology Teachers

Using Digital Learning to Transform Specialty Schools

Digital learning is becoming more popular. Since everything seems to be digital these days, it only makes sense to appeal to children by using digital learning as well. This is ...

Education Leadership

Know the Why and How Before Adopting EdTech

With so many schools jumping on the edtech bandwagon, it’s easy to feel as though your institution, if not on board, has already fallen behind. Edtech boasts so many benefits ...
EdTech Startups & Businesses Education Leadership

How to Make Your Education Conference More Productive

Organizing a conference is one thing, organizing one that turns out to be productive is quite another. Conference experts agree that most conferences are a waste of time and money. ...
EdTech Startups & Businesses Education Leadership

How to Host an Education Conference on a Limited Budget

According to Forrester Research, marketing departments spend 24% of their total annual budgets on live events in order to connect with customers, educate attendees, and generate new leads. But what ...
EdTech Startups & Businesses Education Leadership

How to Evaluate if Education Conference Attendance is Paying Off for Your Edtech Company

Most people agree that if you are new to the industry, education conferences are the best way to get lots of good information in a short time. But, for those ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Higher Education EdTech Teachers

Smart Glasses: Looking at Education with New Lenses

While his students work in collaborative groups, Mr. Jacobs reviews recent achievement data for each student. He’s looking to see how students answered questions on each objective for their last ...