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| New App |
| Colloborative Classroom Learning for iPads |
 Santa Rosa, CA (USA), April 2012 - Democrasoft, Inc. has announced the worldwide release and immediate availability of its Collaborize Classroom PRO iPad app in Apple's App Store. This special "optimized-for-iPad" app was designed to address the fast-growing adoption of the iPad by students and teachers. [more...] |
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| STEM District |
| New Educational Initiative for Maths and Sciences |
 Lancaster, TX (USA), April 2012 - The Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation, Educate Texas, and Lancaster Independent School District (LISD) have announced an initiative to systemically change science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels in the district over the next four years. [more...] |
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| Enter History |
| Put the Past in the Palm of Your Hand |
| Paris (FR), March 2012 – Time travel on your iPhone or iPod touch with the murderers, gravediggers, and celebrity photographers of Time Traveler Tours. These tours combine the traditional power of storytelling with the latest in mobile technology to bring history and culture to life. [more...] |
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| Educational Sector |
| Supporting the Use of ICT in the UK |
 Stafford (UK), February 2012 - Stone, an ICT-services provider to UK education, has announced the second Stone Group ICT in Education Report and a "Rent-a-PC" scheme that presents all levels of the education sector with a new ability to access funding for ICT hardware through revenue budget rather than the capital budget. [more...] |
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| Public Spending |
| UK Education Funding Falls at Fastest Rate Since 1950s |
| London (UK), November 2011 - Public spending on education in the UK is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, according to a report released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report says the biggest challenges ahead are for early-years education, youth services, and sixteen-nineteen education, where spending is set to fall by around twenty percent in real terms. [more...] |
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| Cyber Cruelty |
| Don’t Let Bullying Destroy the Lives of Kids |
 New York, NY (USA), November 2011 - As an openly gay young man, Tommy Walser, currently a New York University Law School student, watched in shock and anger as it seemed like every week a new suicide was being committed due to bullying and cyber-bullying. Enter The Bullying Academy, which Walser created as a free online resource to help parents, students, and teachers deal with the dangers associated with bullying and cyber-bullying. [more...] |
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| Mobile Learning |
| A Classroom in Your Pupils’ Pocket |
 Okemos, MI (USA), June 2011 - (by Dave McCollom) Mobile technology is increasingly commonplace in the classroom, be it pupils’ mobiles or brand-new tablet devices. Dave McCollom, education specialist of TechSmith, discusses how schools can take advantage of mobile technology and ensure investment in mobile ICT is well worth the cost. [more...] |
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| Literacy App |
| New Technology to Help Young Children's Reading |
| Milton Keynes (UK), June 2011 - Researchers at The Open University have created a free "app" to help parents teach their children to read. "Our Story" has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading. [more...] |
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| Next Generation |
| What Would a Ted Speaker Say to Ten Year Olds? |
| Brussels (BE), May 2011 - You can find out next month at a new kind of TEDx event called TEDxKIDS@Brussels on 01 June. The organisers have invited a team of extraordinary experts (many of them former TED speakers) for a day in Waterloo, Belgium. [more...] |
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| Future Pathways |
| Changing Teaching through 3D Technology |
| Reading (UK)/Dallas, TX (USA), February 2011 – Two UK schools are using Texas Instruments DLP® 3D-ready technology to bring science lessons to life and turn two-dimensional topics into engaging 3D learning experiences. The result is an improvement in the pupils’ understanding of difficult topics. Participating schools are The Abbey School, an independent girls’ day school of over 1,000 pupils, and the Emmbrook School, a mixed comprehensive school of 1,200 pupils. [more...] |
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| Literacy |
| Video Game Tackles Primary School Reading Crisis |
| Cambridge (UK), January 2011 - Nine percent of boys in England reach the age of eleven with, at best, the reading skills of an average seven year old. This figure equates to over 18,000 boys with seriously substandard literacy. This shocking statistic, obtained by the BBC's Today programme, also revealed that in some areas, such as Nottingham, Derby, Manchester, Rotherham, and Telford the figure was closer to fifteen percent. [more...] |
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| Learning Styles |
| Peter Honey: There's No Such Word as Can't! |
 London (UK), October 2010 – In a though-provoking presentation, world-famous learning- styles "guru" Dr Peter Honey inspired and entertained members of the Charity Learning Consortium at its recent meeting. The title was, "Should Learning Always Be Fun? And Is the Learning Styles Questionnaire Sufficient to Help Promote Learning?" [more...] |
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| Intrinisic Motivation |
| Game-based Learning for Quality Education in Schools |
 Graz (AT), July 2010 - Can learning be fun? Many people would not agree with this hypothesis since they remember their own educational history, which involved investing a lot of effort to pass exams in school and university. On the contrary, learning is often perceived as an exercise in getting results in the form of a certification – and for this reason, extrinsic motivation strongly dominates most of the learning process in primary and secondary education, at the university level, and even in vocational education and training. [more...] |
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| Specific Phenomenon |
| Open Educational Practices Lead to Quality in Education |
 Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - There is an inherent connection between opening educational practices and quality of education. In the recent debates about the quality of OER and eLearning content in general, a structural problem becomes apparent. In many approaches, educational resources are evaluated and judged separately from their intended use, e.g. through certification or criteria-based approaches. [more...] |
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| New Service |
| Saffron Interactive Announces LMS in a Box |
| London (UK), June 2010 - LMS in a box is a Moodle-based solution that allows customers to quickly and easily make a branded learning management system available to their learners. It offers custom brand design, hosting, and support service. [more...] |
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