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Author: Bob Hand  At the beginning of this year, President Obama began an initiative called “Computer Science for All” to empower students around the nation with the skills needed to thrive in the modern world. As the end of the year draws near, it’s time to reflect: how has the American educational system changed to incorporate computer science into the curriculum? What can teachers do to further this goal?
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The Learning Counsel Releases the Results of its 2016 National Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey12/21/2016 86% of schools expect to spend more on digital curriculum in 2017  (Sacramento, CA) December 21, 2016 — The Learning Counsel today released the results of its third annual Survey of school and district digital curriculum strategy and transformation, sponsored by Ruckus Wireless. A total of 708 U.S. schools and districts responded to the national Survey, which showed a primary point of attention by schools now is on teacher effectiveness in the implementation of digital curriculum.
myON provides a personalized literacy environment through high-quality digital texts  (Minneapolis, MN) December 19, 2016 — myON, a business unit of Capstone and leading provider of personalized literacy solutions in the K-12 marketplace, is proud to announce its partnership with the Detroit Public Schools Community District. The district chose myON for its ability to deliver the 65 schools access to more than 5,300 high-quality, engaging fiction and nonfiction digital books, as well as myON’s literacy tools.
The district’s goal for myON is to increase students’ access to books both at home and in school, thereby increasing their love of reading, ultimately leading to increased student achievement. Author: Na’ama Y. Rosenberg of Voki  Voki is an innovative and engaging ed-tech software that students and teachers can use for homework, classwork, or projects. Voki allows students to design their own avatars, customizing their look and voice so as to represent themselves virtually. In Voki Presenter, teachers can add their favorite Voki characters to their slides, making Voki a personal teaching assistant that is engaging and fun for students.
With hundreds of characters available, educators can shape Voki to meet their lesson needs, no matter what the subject! Author: Michał Borkowski - CEO and co-founder of Brainly  It turns out that the greatest challenge of the information age is information itself. Internet technologies have certainly opened new and more egalitarian points of access to information, yet for young learners these same technologies have made it vastly more difficult to judge the quality of that information. When searching for online content, students must venture into an uneven and often overwhelming informational environment in which conventional genres are largely absent and top-notch resources are easily confused with poor or even deliberately misleading ones.
Have you heard about Computer Science Education Week? If you haven’t, it’s essentially an opportunity for any student to learn about programming, and more broadly, to spur an interest in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field. Computer Science Education Week started this Monday, December 5th and is slated to go until Monday, December 12th.
Guest Post | The Importance of Educators Being Able to Identify Students with Mental Health Issues12/6/2016 Author: Anum Yoon  Being a teenager isn’t easy, and that hormonal trial-by-fire becomes even more difficult when you add the issues presented by mental health issues. When getting out of bed is a struggle, you can only imagine how hard it might be to show up in class every day and complete the required class work. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 have either been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, or will be diagnosed during this period.
As an educator, you spend so much time with these teenagers, your students, that it is essential to know how to be on the lookout for signs of mental illness and mental health problems. What should you be watching out for? How can you help your students if you suspect there might be a mental health problem in play? Nominations from top K12 leaders led to the selection of products that enhance learning across the country  Tucson, AZ – December 6, 2016 — MindPlay Literacy has been recognized for making a positive difference in education by K12 leaders who named it to District Administration magazine’s “Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products for 2016.” The winners were compiled from 1,500-plus nominations from the magazine’s readers over the past year. The Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products has been announced online and in the December 2016 issue of District Administration.
 MILWAUKEE (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 29, 2016: Epiphany Learning™, an edtech company dedicated to making personalized learning a reality in classrooms throughout the world, today announced that its K-12 Learning Relationship Management (LRM) Platform significantly improved Wisconsin-based Walker Elementary School’s Personalized Learning Program, increasing the school’s academic outcomes.
Nominations from top K12 leaders led to the selection of products that enhance learning across the country  (MINNEAPOLIS, MN) December 1, 2016 — myON, leading provider of personalized literacy solutions, has been recognized for making a positive difference in education by K12 leaders who named it to District Administration magazine’s “Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products for 2016.”
The winners were compiled from 1,500-plus nominations from the magazine’s readers over the past year. The Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products has been announced online and in the December 2016 issue of District Administration. |
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