Splashtop Releases Whiteboard App for Android Tablets -- THE Journal Splashtop , a California-based software company founded in 1996, has released an application that gives functionality similar to that of an interactive whiteboard to Android-based tablet computers.
On Digital Learning Day, 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology | MindShift : Today is Digital Learning Day , a national promotional effort by the Alliance for Excellence in Education to call attention to using technology in schools. More than 10,000 teachers and 1.5 million students have signed up in support to “celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students,” according to the AEE . To that end, a repost of Adam S. Bellow’s Golden Rules of Technology in Schools , as he stated them at the ISTE 2011 conference.
Student Calls for a Learning Revolution | Edutopia : Nikhil Goyal ( @TalkPolitical on Twitter) is a student at Syosset High School in NY. He's the author of the All Hands on Deck: Why America Needs a Learning Revolution (September 2012), columnist for the Huffington Post , guest blogger for New York Times: Dot Earth , and a conference speaker. Visit his website . Last year, industrial designer Dean Benstead unveiled the 02 Pursuit -- a prototype for a motorcycle ruled not by gas or electricity, but by compressed air. Just last month, Google announced to the public its secret initiative, Project Glass , the company's first venture into wearable computing. And yet, in the world of education, the "next big thing" is merit pay for teachers and boosting test scores. Do our policymakers not understand that the world is going through a revolution in the way we live, interact and learn? Our education system is stuck in paralysis. We have tried doing ...
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