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What Role Does Social Media Have in Education?

Recently, Compass Learning interviewed about 30 educators, including teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of curriculum and learning, and consultants, at the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference held in Dallas. We wanted to know what role—if any—social media (Facebook,...

3 months ago by Compass Learning Staff

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5 Mobile Apps to Ignite the Genius Within

Mobile apps can do much more than eat up your time with addictive gaming. Many apps have been designed for constructive purposes such as training your cognitive abilities such as working memory, language skills and problem solving. These five apps are some of the best and most popular brain exercising apps available to...

5 months ago by Guest Author

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Infographic: How Are Students Using Smart Phones?

Did you know that 53 percent of college students own smart phones? And it's their lifeline to the greater world. Students are pulling up news articles, headlines, feeds, and alerts at home, work, class, and elsewhere.

5 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

Virtual Projects to Add to Real World Field Trips

Nowadays, when someone talks about a “21st century field trip," they are most likely referring to a virtual field trip. Virtual field trips are incredible examples of how the Internet can change the learning experience for students today. They can take a tour of Versailles, cruise around with the Rovers on the surfac...

9 months ago by Alison Anderson

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10 Apps That Combine Learning With Fun

From traditional games, such as Scrabble, which can be used as a vocabulary-building incentive, to Foldit, a game designed by scientists to use crowdsourcing to better understand proteins, to apps that help identify plants and wildlife that are useful on hikes and field trips, here are 10 apps that combine learning wit...

10 months ago by Guest Author

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Nearpod: Go Mobile While Presenting

Nearpod is like the Join.me for iPad presentations - but better. I haven't seen a mobile presentation tool quite like this. I've seen iPad browser sharing tools and even presentation managers, yet nothing with the suite of tools Nearpod offers.

11 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Staff Picks: mLearning, ePortfolios, intellectual work & Rethinking ED

Tom Picks “Celling a Great Idea” Tom says, “I agree ...

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff