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Read MorePBS LearningMedia Offers More Than 30,000 Free, Digital Resources
Arlington, VA, May 15, 2013 – PBS LearningMedia today announced that it now offers more than 30,000 digital resources available for free to PreK-12 educators nationwide. The new resources address nationwide curriculum gaps in digital media and bolster the service’s offerings in math, science,...
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Read MoreQ&A with Miro Kazakoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Testive
Testive is a company that develops adaptive testing and test preparation products, TurboTest™ and SAT HABIT. Co-founded by Miro Kazakoff and Tom Rose, Testive has raised $500K in seed funding. EdTech Times sat down with Miro Kazakoff to learn more about Testive and himself. ETT: What is your elevator pitch?...
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Read MoreVeronica Conforme to Serve as Vice President of the College Board’s Access to Rigor Campaign
NEW YORK, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The College Board today announced that effective immediately, Veronica Conforme will serve as vice president of the organization’s Access to Rigor campaign. Conforme comes to the College Board from the New York City Department of Education, where...
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Read MoreBuzz: Georgia Tech, Udacity, and AT&T Launch MOOC to Earn Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The Internet is abuzz with yesterday’s announcement of Georgia Tech, Udacity, and AT&T’s MOOC launch. Here are the basics: Georgia Tech will offer an Online Master of Science degree in computer science (OMS CS). Course content will be delivered through Udacity’s platform. Courses will...
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Read MoreBuilding DBQ Skills in the Digital Age
What the DBQ is a DBQ? The acronym DBQ stands for document-based question, a question type that appears on the U.S. History Advanced Placement exam taken by approximately 400,000 high school students every spring. Essentially, a DBQ requires students to analyze roughly ten primary sources—artifacts,...
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Read MoreCollaborative Learning is Arriving on the iPad
The iPad is proving to be a fertile ground on which to deploy apps tailored to encourage and enhance the collaborative nature of the academic experience, reports THE Journal. Several teachers reported to THE Journal about their usage of these apps and how they are implemented during classroom hours. Common...
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Read MoreMOOCs: Protectionism vs. Progress
The Resistance Stage has begun. The hype about MOOCs was bound to boil over. Let the record show that it began in earnest on April 29, 2013, with a bold statement by the Philosophy Department at San Jose State University (SJSU) in the form of an Open Letter to Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel....
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