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Desmos Unveils Tables of Data for Greater Math Understanding

Desmos unveils a sweeping new set of changes to its online graphing calculator to meet the requests and needs of its thousands of users over the last year. Today, Desmos introduces Tables of Data, which will improve students' abilities to organize data at the heart of statistic.

4 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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12 Wishes for a Creative New Year

Call me hopelessly Romantic in the 19th-century sense, but I believe deeply in creativity as the wellspring of a meaningful, productive, and happy life. I am never more joyful than when I am fully engaged in puzzling out a challenging problem, making something with my hands (including wiggling my fingers on a keyboard ...

4 months ago by Susan Lucille Davis

Learning

3 Lessons on Faculty Development from an Education Innovator

Oregon State University went from not offering formal tech support to its faculty to having the director of its faculty tech training program named one of this year’s top 50 innovators in education. What can we learn from the success of OSU’s program?

4 months ago by EdCetera Staff

Leadership

Chicago Appoints Jack Elsey Chief Innovations Officer

Jack J. Elsey Jr. joined Chicago Public Schools as Chief of Innovation and Incubation. Formerly Elsey was Chief Schools Officer for Detroit Rising College Preparatory Schools and Assistant Superintendent in the Detroit Public Schools.

4 months ago by Guest Author

EdTech

11 of the Best Google Chrome Extensions for Students

Today, computer developers constantly add new features, plugins, and tools to help us access useful, relevant, and personalized data. In fact, developers at Google released an extension-friendly web browser called Google Chrome in 2008. Chrome offers extensions, or browser plug-ins, with unparalleled tools for learning...

8 months ago by Guest Author

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MIND Research Institute

The nonprofit MIND Research Institute is dedicated to solving math education in America through its cutting-edge approach to teaching and learning math. Its uniquely visually-based ST Math instructional software program is helping children across the country dramatically improve their math proficiency and become life-l...

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Blackboard Collaborate Goes Mobile

This June, Blackboard, Inc. increased its mobile offerings. The learning management system (LMS) provider launched its collaborative Web tool, Blackboard Collaborate, in app form under private beta with select K-12 and higher education institutions. Blackboard Collaborate Mobile allows educators and students to Web con...

8 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

One Giant Leap For Humanity, Now Education

The first time a kid said that his DREAM was to score in the top quintile on a standardized test, that was when we became the dystopian, near-future, cold world where dreams die that SyFy movies have been promising us since the 1950s.

8 months ago by Adam Renfro