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The Edtech space has expanded exponentially over the course of the last few years offering a steady steam of solutions designed to enhance teaching and learning. 

In Mark Prensky’s new book Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom, he argues that technology can be used to enhance the human brain and improve the way people process information. EdTech products which follow this model have a chance to create a breakthrough in education. The education entrepreneur has endless possibilities offering trans-formative solutions. Weather in the areas of edtech teacher training or online classes.

New teaching practices have many benefits for the seasoned teacher, they give us new ideas and help us refresh ourselves professionally. However, they should be thought of in terms of a “Thawing Principle” and will ultimately go through the natural process of becoming a good idea for some and a better idea for others. Education Technology plays a major role in facilitating the introduction of the new methods into the classroom.

Our lives have changed drastically over the course of the last three of decades. Job stability is declining, manual labor is rapidly being taken over by machines and the information that we get from the internet is becoming more valuable than the teacher and the textbook.    The education profession is finding it difficult to keep up with these challenges.  Some believe that new teaching methods, commonly known as modern pedagogy are the solution to the problem. There is a serious need for quality technology tools and resources that promote new ways of teaching and learning. Online classes are definitely one piece of the puzzle, but they offer little promise in the area of modern pedagogy.

It was a shock to wake up one day to a classroom in which all of the students had a tablet and all of the books had gone digital

Phones give direct access to STEM learning materials at the children’s’ fingertips

Standardization is the enemy of creativity and ingenuity

Written by Coby Enteen The TES blendspace (previously known as Edcanvas) is a phenomenal web tool that allows teachers to create  multimedia rich  lessons  and share them with their students for self-directed learning. These lessons can include YouTube videos, slides, files, text, and images which you can download either from the web or use content that you have in your […]

Cross-curricular teaching is often viewed as an ideal mode of instruction offering for in-depth and meaningful learning.  The existing secondary school structure was built according to a uni-disciplinary model emphasizing the isolated teaching of subjects leaving little room for cross-curricular collaboration.

Mobile devices are slowly flattening the world in terms of bringing technology into the classroom.  The lack of computers and other technologies within the educational arena in the developing world is being supplemented by the widespread availability of mobile devices.  We must overcome a number of obstacles in order to meet this challenge and support educational change.