Featured Articles

EdTech

Camp Discovery App from the Center for Autism & Related Disorders

By: Lisa Valerio. The app is voice narrated, allowing children as young as two and pre-readers to benefit from the app. Camp Discovery provides a personalized learning experience for each user, based on parental settings as well as a regularly-updated preference assessment for rewards.

yesterday by Guest Author

EdTech

Join Digital Promise In Improving EdTech Purchasing Practices

If you’d like to join these efforts and contribute to the improved discovery, acquisition, and implementation of learning technology, sign up to participate in our surveys and interviews, by Friday, March 14.

2 days ago by Guest Author

Learning

Live From #SXSWedu: Teachers Need To Embrace Technology

A lot of students like to learn with technology because they’ve grown up surrounded by technology their whole lives, and they’re more comfortable with it. Teachers shouldn’t be afraid to use more technology because it’s for the benefit of their students.

2 days ago by Guest Author

Learning

Live From SXSWedu: Cook Up A Batch Of Blended Learning

By: Brianna Soliz. We don’t want our future to be fully dependent on technology; we just want technology to play a supporting role. It was a great first session and I’m glad I was able to be part of it.

4 days ago by Guest Author

Learning

How Online Learning Enables Personalized Learning – An Interview with Dr. Lisa Collins

By: LOtL Editors. We recently sat down with Dr. Lisa Collins, the Senior Director for Instruction and Training at our sponsor, Fuel Education, to discuss what personalized learning means, how online learning enables it, and how the online learning experience differs from the traditional school experience.

6 days ago by Guest Author

advocacy partner

PresenceLearning

PresenceLearning is the leading provider of online speech therapy and other special education-related services. PresenceLearning’s nationwide network of hundreds of highly qualified clinicians includes speech language pathologists (SLPs), occupational therapists (OTs) and other related services professionals.

Leadership

Tomorrow is NOW at #iPDX14

By: Jeremy Macdonald. I am here today because I know that tomorrow is NOW, and now (because of you), it will be different for many. And now take what you’ve heard, seen, and learned, take it back to your class, back to you schools, back to your homes not just because you need to better, but because it’s time to be ...

9 days ago by Guest Author

Learning

A Look Inside Standards-Based Grading at Starr Detroit Academy

By: Jeremy Vidito. Standards-based grading was one of numerous strategies we implemented from Day 1. And it became evident quite early in our first year that we had some challenges to overcome if we were going to successfully implement standards-based grading.

9 days ago by Guest Author