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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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The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones Of 2020: All The Best Options For Silencing The Noise

Whether you’re a student trying to drown out distractions while studying for a big exam or you’re just someone who really loves immersing themselves in a good song, noise-canceling headphones ...
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The Best YouTube Downloaders For 2020: All The Best Options For Downloading Videos

While YouTube is a true treasure trove of informative and entertaining content for students and educators alike, it can be troublesome trying to access YouTube when WiFi is sketchy or ...
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The Best Screen Recorders Of 2020: All The Best Options For Creating Tutorials, Recording Webinars, ...

Screen recorders are the way of the future for educators and students when it comes to everything from putting together PowerPoint presentations to recording tutorials and conducting webinars. Rather than ...
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The Best Tablets For K-12 and College Educators 2020: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

While a quality laptop is an essential tool in any K-12 or college educators’ teaching toolkit, a great tablet can do a lot of what a laptop can do while ...
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The Best Laptops For K-12 And College Educators 2020: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

A good laptop will do wonders for K-12 and college educators alike, but it’s a great laptop that will separate an educator from their peers when it comes to organization ...

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 ...

Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Teachers

Back On Track with Credit Recovery

The path toward high school graduation is an obvious one. Earn the credits you need in each subject area, graduate, and move on. There are plenty of ways to earn ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Teachers

Algorithms, Omelets, and Student Placement

I’ve been sitting here at breakfast pondering a real issue. Which came first, the algorithm or the omelet? Trust me, these two real issues are related to each other. First, ...
Teachers

3 Easy Steps to Using a Collaboration Technology Approach

No teacher can do it all. Running a classroom, delivering instruction, and giving timely feedback are huge tasks by themselves. The good news is that responsibility for learning doesn’t have ...
Education Leadership Teachers

Why You Need Project Management Tools

We talk a lot about instructional technology, but there’s another side to campus edtech. It’s called project management, and it’s every bit as vital for school success as teaching. Project ...
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 ...

Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Teachers

Back On Track with Credit Recovery

The path toward high school graduation is an obvious one. Earn the credits you need in each subject area, graduate, and move on. There are plenty of ways to earn ...
Education Leadership Teachers

Why You Need Project Management Tools

We talk a lot about instructional technology, but there’s another side to campus edtech. It’s called project management, and it’s every bit as vital for school success as teaching. Project ...
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 ...

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