Grading: Can Technology Make Grading Stress Free? Issue 5 of Teaching The AvatarGeneration
In this, our 5th issue of Teaching The AvatarGeneration, we decided to concentrate on one of the core time-intensive tasks that teachers are faced...
WizIQ is Hosting A Free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Teachers
WizIQ is hosting a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for teachers, who wish to teach online using Moodle and other web technologies such as...
Skoolbo Releases Zalairos Adventures Collection for Free
Skoolbo today announced the release of the special edition of Zalairos Adventures for the iPads for free. The collection contains all 25 audio books...
Schoolfy: New Classroom Management System For Educators
Schoolfy has announced the summer launch of its long-awaited educational technology platform. Touted as a revolutionary classroom management system,...
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History of Distance Education [Infographic]
This infographic from StraighterLine delves into the importance of distance education throughout history. Although published last year, it’s...
Jack and Jill’s Preschool Adventure Educational App
Arista Games has launched a new educational iPad and iPhone app for preschool children. Jack and Jill’s Preschool Adventure was produced in...
New Book Features Retired Teacher’s Stories From the Classroom
No one knows how unpredictable first graders can be better than a first-grade teacher. In “Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes: Forty-Four Years...
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Tech Off: King of Math vs. Mathmateer [Infographic]
It’s probably not a stretch to say that most kids don’t find doing math homework particularly fun. That’s where math apps come in. These...
Funbrain Jr. Launches For Preschoolers
Preschoolers and kindergartners can get a running start to learning online with the launch of Funbrain Jr. Brought to parents and kids by the...
Ken Robinson: How To Escape Education’s Death Valley
Sir Ken Robinson delivers yet another fantastic TED Talk and tells us how to escape the educational “death valley” we now face. He...
Eight-Year-Old Entrepreneur Launches Nicolas’ Garden Mobile App To Promote Healthy Living & Fight Childhood Obesity
Eight-year-old Nicolas Come had an epiphany last year; while other kids his age were playing with their friends or mastering basic mathematics in...
10 Digital Storytelling Tools with Teacher Support
Everyone has a story to tell, and gone are they days where you need an agent, a publisher and a bank balance to share your stories. Digital...
Fablelane: Online Reading Game Motivates Students To Read And Write
Non-profit project Fablelane had created an online reading game platform, fusing the action and excitement of video games with the narrative of a...
Addition & Subtraction Made Easy With Montessori 1st Operations
Award winning educational software startup 3 Elles Interactive have just launched Montessori 1st Operations, a clear and simple approach to addition...
The iPad as the Teacher’s Pet
Discover how your iPad can be the Teacher’s Pet with this infographic from Learning In Hand.
Parents Want More Use of Mobile Devices in Classrooms
In one of the most comprehensive studies of parents’ views on mobile devices in education, more than 50 percent of parents believe that...
18 Myths People Believe About Education
Take a look at this infographic from OpenColleges.edu.au, detailing 18 myths people believe about education. Do you agree with some of them or not?
Learn Fun Ocean Facts With SuperFugu
WemoLab, a technology platform company creating global entertainment has launched its first mobile product, SuperFugu, an interactive tablet app...
Walter’s Flying Bus Launched for iPhone
Walter’s Flying Bus, an award-winning storybook app inspired by disabled orphans in Africa, has released a new iPhone version. Executive...
Zynga and NewSchools Venture Fund Launch Ed Tech Games Accelerator
Zynga.org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund to create a new “ed tech” accelerator focused on enhancing the quality and reach of...
Re-Mission 2: Games To Help Fight Cancer
Re-Mission 2, a collection of free online games launched by HopeLab, harnesses the power and appeal of casual games to help young people with cancer...
Teaching America: A Glimpse at The Profession of Teaching
The average day of a public school teacher doesn’t end when the bell rings and the students are gone. Class preparation, grading, bus duty, club...
Reading Eggs Launches its First Math App: Eggy Numbers 1 to 10
Reading Eggs has launched its new Eggy Numbers 1 to 10 app for the iPad and iPhone. Designed for children taking their first steps into the world...
Wonderville Platform Bridges Education With Technology
Learning Core, an educational software company, announced today the pilot program launch of its premier product Wonderville.com. Wonderville is an...
The Rise of EduTech in K-12 Classrooms
The Pew Research Center (2013) surveyed teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) classes about their use of education...
Famous Scientists and Inventors Who Dropped Out of School
What do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell have in...
The iMums Feature Speech Therapy Apps for “Better Hearing and Speech” Month
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and The iMums, founded by four tech-savvy moms from four corners of the globe, will feature reviews of speech...
Will Google Glass Catch On With The Average User?
Google’s foray into wearable technology – Glass – is a step toward the dream of ubiquitous computing in which the Internet is...
ESL Educators use Harry Potter Movies to Teach English
Expecto Patronum! The Harry Potter movies are the most popular films shown by ESL (English as a second language) educators to teach English during...
Pop Culture in Education
Launching our fourth issue of the AvatarGeneration iPad magazine, we focus on using popular culture in education, and give our readers hints, tips...
New i Learn With App Teaches Children About Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Tribal Nova, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company and developer behind the award winning PBS KIDS PLAY! online learning program, announces its latest...
Best Practices For Creating An Online Course
To help you create the best online courses, ProProfs have come up with an awesome infographic on the “Best Practices For Creating An Online...
Getting a Grip on Good Grammar
We’ve all done it — misplaced an apostrophe, confused “their” with “there” or “they’re,” mismatched subject and pronoun, or left a...
Trace Effects: 3D Language Learning Game
In response to the White House challenge to federal agencies to create games that have a positive impact on learning, health, and social change, The...