Chinese Teacher Conducts Class from Space Lab
Wang Yaping, a 33-year-old teacher, is a member of the three-person space crew that docked with China’s orbiting space lab on Thursday....
European Award for Best Online Content for Kids Launched
The European Award for Best Content for Kids highlights existing quality content for 4-12 year-old children and encourages the production of new...
We Give Books’ Free Digital Library to Fight Summer Brain Drain
We Give Books have launched this year’s Read for My Summer program, an initiative that fights summer brain drain by encouraging children to read...
New Teacher Resource Spark 101 Launches To Ignite Student Interest In STEM
New Teacher Resource Brings Real-World Industry Challenges into Classrooms. An innovative, free resource is now available to educators across the...
SparkFun Gears Up for Fifth Annual Robotics and Drone Competition
Sparkfun have recently launched an educational portal on their site with lots of electronics tutorials and detailed handouts and presentations. The...
Preschoolers in Utah’s UPSTART Program Using Technology from Waterford Institute Show Stronger Literacy Skills Than Peers
State-level academic program for four-year-olds brings the benefits of individualized interactive instruction to the home through the use of...
Prepzilla Zombifies their Self Study Test-Prep App
Educational app developer, gWhiz, has gamified mobile test prep with its popular and innovative PrepZilla app, which allows users to study on their...
New Interactive Learning Game “Reach for the Sun” Debuts at PlayMaker School Event
Showcasing the Benefits of Game-Based Learning in its Newly Remodeled PlayMaker Adventure Room, GameDesk Connects Core Curriculum with an Interactive...
Student Game Showcase Website from Mari Games Launched
MARI GAMES announces the launch of their competition game center to showcase student game submissions from the Thinking Challenge. MARI GAMES, the...
New Online Class on Stress Management for Kids from Playful Learning Ecademy
Playful Learning, the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal award-winning online learning website for kids, today announced the release of its newest Ecademy...
Free Teaching Strategies Webinar this Wednesday
School Improvement Network, the leader in educator effectiveness resources, today announced a free webinar featuring the leading teaching...
Parental involvement in education using the Fronter LMS
Parental involvement in education is a key part of student development. Technologies, such as the LMS Fronter, are now tailoring their systems to...
Internet Safety Risk Assessment for Teens Released by iPredator Inc.
The Teen Internet Safety Checklist (TISC) has been released by iPredator Inc. Developed by Michael Nuccitelli Psy.D., C.F.C., a New York State...
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...
Kidaptive Launches Parent’s Pad for Comprehensive Feedback on Pre-school Learning
Parent’s Pad, an assessment tool designed to deliver the most comprehensive feedback on preschoolers’ learning, was launched today by...
Foundations of Virtual Instruction [Free Coursera CPD Course]
Online MOOC Coursera have introduced a range of professional development courses for teachers, and one course ‘Foundations of Virtual...
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...
The Web We Want: Free Online Reflection Handbook for Teens
The Web We Want is an educational handbook developed by European Schoolnet for 13-16 year olds aimed at helping to reflect on online experiences...
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...
Blackboard LMS launches early warning analytics tool to identify at-risk students
Blackboard Inc. has unveiled a new release of its flagship learning management system (LMS) that includes a tool to help instructors identify and...
iTutor to Introduce Online Learning Management System
After unveiling a new look and feel for its website back in February of this year, iTutor hasn’t skipped a beat in the ongoing development of...
Boo Radley or Katniss Everdeen: Who’s Motivating Kids to Read?
What do The Hunger Games, required reading lists, and state standards have in common? According to the largest annual report of its kind, all three...
Scholastic Launches 6 new products for Common Core Math and Reading programs
Bringing together leading cognitive scientists, instructional experts in reading and mathematics, cutting-edge game and app designers and adaptive...
Barobo Launches 3D Printed Robot Kit
Barobo, Inc., an innovator of educational robotics, have announced the launch of the Mobot-A robot kit, a 3D printed robot for schools in need of...
Innovative New App Teaches Kids the Joys and Responsibilities of Pet Care
A new mobile app by Startled Cat, Inc. and the SPCA of Wake County, NC is a fun, interactive way to for kids to learn about pet care, encourage...
Nihongo Master A New Online Game for Learning Japanese
A new technology startup in Las Vegas is simplifying language learning on the web. Starting with Japanese as its first foray into language...
Education Portal Offers 13 Free AP Courses to Help High School Students Ace Their Exams
Education Portal, a Silicon Valley start-up that develops free online courses that lead to real college credit, today added 13 Advanced Placement...
Minecraft Video Game Is Building a Revolution Inside the Classroom with Game-Based Learning
iD Tech Camps announces four new courses based on the Minecraft platform, as educators worldwide are incorporating Mojang’s popular title into...
LiveSchool behavior tracking app helps KIPP LA shift school culture
KIPP LA middle schools have a powerful tool in a behavior-tracking app that helps reward students for good choices and build a school culture that...
New Massive Open Online Course for blended learning educators from Blended Schools Network and SoftChalk
Blended Schools Network (BSN) will be using SoftChalk Cloud and the Google Plus platform to deliver a new massive open online course (MOOC) on...
eBackpack Announces the Launch of Classroom Management iPad App
eBackpack, Inc, the leading provider of cross-platform cloud assignment and classroom workflow management solutions, announced today the launch of...
Angry Birds Space Encounter Opens at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Angry Birds Space Encounter, the first comprehensive, interactive Angry Birds attraction in the United States designed for people of all ages, has...
Pocoyo teams up with Earth Hour with Free Environmental Online Game + Activity Book
The Spanish pre-school animation series, Pocoyo has teamed up with Earth Hour with an Ocean Clean Up Game and accompanying activity book for kids....