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Edtech Innovations for Special Populations

By Matthew Lynch
June 4, 2019

Special education has always been an early adopter of innovative and adaptive technology. Doing so has equalized access to curriculum and learning tasks for ...

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Assistive Technology Special Education

Apps and Tools That Will Help You Develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

By Matthew Lynch
May 22, 2018

A well thought out Individualized Education Plan (IEP) represents some of the best personalized planning in education. The IEP lays out a year’s worth ...

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Disabilities EdTech & Innovation Special Education

Using Technology to Empower Students with Special Needs

By Matthew Lynch
October 27, 2017

Technology in the classroom can serve as a great equalizer. When used correctly, technology can help teachers differentiate instruction and empower students with special ...

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Best of Best Lists Digital Age Teachers

The Tech Apps that Teachers Need

Teachers need another thing to do like most students need more candy right after breakfast. That’s why educators cringe when administrators talk about new initiatives or want to pilot a ...
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5 Reasons Why I Am Thankful For Edtech

Since edtech hit the scene many moons ago, it has been hotly debated. It’s seen as a panacea to some and the scourge of the education system to others. How ...
Best of Best Lists

38 Amazing Edtech Tools for Student Creation and Innovation

Are you looking for edtech tools that will allow your students to tap into their creativity? We got you covered. In this article, we will profile 38 amazing edtech tools ...
Best of Best Lists Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech

14 Project-Based Learning Activities for the Science Classroom

One of the most popular methods of facilitating deep learning in K-12 schools in problem-based learning. It starts, as the name suggests, with a problem. In this model, students are ...
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25 of the Best Apps for Kids in the Fifth Grade

At last count, there were over 80,000 educational apps available to teachers. There are apps for everything: literacy, STEM, productivity, audiovisual, etc. There are apps which improve accessibility for students ...

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 ...
Child Development Tech Featured Fresh

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 ...

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 ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Featured Fresh

The Responsibilities of Leading with Technology

The flowering of edtech over the last decade has created an amazing landscape. Being a leader in this field is truly an astounding opportunity to connect students with the digital ...

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Edtech Innovations for Special Populations

Apps and Tools That Will Help You Develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

Using Technology to Empower Students with Special Needs

5 Easy Mistakes to Make When Collecting Feedback for Your Online Course

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