Jessica Martinez is in her twelfth year as an educator. She spent nine years as a classroom teacher before becoming an instructional coach. She gives her thoughts on technology in education and specifically at Bancroft Elementary. Keep reading to learn more about some of the benefits and drawbacks she’s seen.
Eduporium’s revamped Resources Portal, which has evolved from a general collection of resources, gives you a great place to start. In addition to a brand-new look, it now contains Product Pages, Project Pages and Voices Pages as well as a General section. Learn more about what’s now available inside.
This may be just what they need to have more fun learning English. Shake-a-Phrase is a fun language app for creative writing prompts, vocabulary, and parts of speech practice. Perfect for learning and laughing in the classroom or on-the-go, it features over 2,000 words and definitions in 5 engaging themes for kids aged eight and up.
News-O-Matic reading for Kids covers relevant news of the day in an engaging way, exploring its many facets through images, maps, video, and games. Whether their interest is sports, science, world news, or wacky events News-O-Matic delivers what’s making the news! It offers a window to the world and beyond helping kids become global citizens.
Accompanied by the art expert Vincent Mirano, you will embark on an exciting journey throughout Germany. All exercises are embedded in an exciting adventure story. This way, learning never becomes boring with over 2 hours of pure playing time. Most importantly you will improve your reading and listening competence in German with this adventure game.
Now and then, I come across an app and think this is the experience tablets were made for. A tool in that hand of someone with a limitless imagination and Adobe Voice—Show Your Story is an app worthy of such a tool. You can combine icons, pictures, text, and your voice to create compelling videos. And, you’ll always have images
Studying endless lists isn’t always the best way to learn and use them effectively. Phrasal verbs are, more than anything, action. And action must be visual. The more visually stimulating learning is, the better we will understand and assimilate the phrasal verbs. Which is the very idea surround what the Phrasal Verbs Machine was built to do
It has been well reported in that last few weeks that Microsoft would release its suite of apps for the iPad. Now they are all available to the masses. Some critiques are hailing them as the final key the iPad needed to be considered a true content creation device, which according the some drives the final death nail in Microsoft’s
I frequently tell students they’re fortunate to attend a bilingual school. They receive half of their instruction in English and half in Spanish. My students truly have an advantage when it comes to finding careers if they learn and practice both languages. With knowledge of multiple languages comes more career options and higher salaries.
