When Scott Mandel visited the British Museum last summer, he knew the displays of Egyptian mummies and treasures would captivate students in his ancient-civilizations class at Pacoima Middle School in ...
It’s no secret that students arrive at school feeling unfocused and unmotivated. After all, being pulled from your slumber and sent somewhere full of rules you’d rather not follow tends to be ...
Vicki Davis is a teacher and IT director for Westwood Schools in Camilla, Ga. Her Cool Cat Teacher blog (coolcatteacher.com) has been one of EdTech’s 50 Must-Read K–12 IT blogs since 2012. There’s a ...
Pearson Education Technologies has released 66 new multimedia lessons in mathematics and language arts for its NovaNET comprehensive courseware system, an online, standards-based curriculum and ...
Generative learning theory posits that learners engage more deeply and produce better learning outcomes when they engage in selecting, organizing, and integrating processes during learning. The ...
Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling ...
As education evolves, the classroom is no longer limited to books and blackboards. Digital resources–interactive platforms, games, simulations, and multimedia–allow educators to bring subjects alive ...