Tag: edtechchat
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Gamifying Your Social Studies Classroom
Gamifying or gamification is just a supposedly new twist on something that teachers have been using since the stone ages. It is not only the use ... -
Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter?
Christopher Brown, University of Texas at Austin Being a kindergartner today is very different from being a kindergartner 20 years ago. In fact it is more ... -
5 Myths About Teaching Kids to Code
Since the digital revolution started, teaching kids how to code has become a growing industry. There are a number of apps, handbooks, tutorials, etc., that teach ... -
Low Tech Lessons to Make Your Class Ready for the High Tech World
By Brian Cleary Instructional Coach- Hearthwood Elementary Evergreen School District Underneath the flash and dazzle flowing into classrooms on the currents that feeds 21st-century technology ... -
The Secret to Building Great EdTech Products? Getting Teachers Involved
From as early as calculators and laptops, to as current as SmartBoards and virtual classrooms, EdTech’s entire purpose is to serve students in the best way ... -
How Virtual Reality is Changing Education
We all know how wildly popular Pokémon GO was when it first launched (and continues to be). With as many as $5.7 million spent daily on ... -
The Edvocate’s List of the Top 10 Can’t Miss Education Conferences in 2017
*The Edvocate is pleased to produce its “Best of the Best” resource lists. These lists provide our readers with rankings for education-related blogs, twitter accounts, influencers, ... -
Using Smartphones in the Classroom
Today’s students are hard wired with innate abilities to network using technology. By far, their current ‘technology of choice’ is the mobile phone. According to Cell ... -
STEM to STEAM: More Than Just a Good Idea
Why Should Schools Transition from STEM to STEAM? The answer is a ‘no brainer.’ Sure, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are basic academic subjects and ... -
The Brains of K-12 Students Come Prewired for EdTech
Forget the books. Save your paper and pencils for Art Projects. Generation Z students, born in the late 1990s to the present, have grown up with ...
