The state of California has designed two technological evaluation programs (California Software Clearinghouse and California Instructional Video Clearinghouse) that offer educators evaluations on superior technical resources for their respective...More

As we continue to develop a comprehensive online educational system, the list is continuing to grow with the number of teachers who have incorporated technology into their daily lesson. I discovered a pretty cool web...More

The interesting thing about this weeks update on Educational Data Mining is that I remember my case study research paper talked about Data Mining but the topic was on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. As I was researchi...More

It seems like everywhere you turn, someone is talking about the topic of school reform and how unfairly students, teachers, principals, districts, and states, are being judged based on standardized test. In New York City, they have developed an...More

For a class project, my son had to develop a presentation by which they had to present a lecture style topic that was assigned to them by their teacher. The application that they used was Voicethread. 

VoiceThre...More

I recently had a good friend tell me that his daughter has been having issues with basic reading comprehension. His daughter is in third grade, and he was told by her teacher that her reading level is probably that of a kindergartner. The teacher su...More

So I am sitting in my living room grading papers from student's essay's and my son comes down and begins playing this video game. He then picks up his head set and begins talking to one of his friends from school. (So as the noisy parent that I...More

One of the problems that I started to see at my school was an influx of new student's who are ELLs. Another issue that myself and other teachers discovered was trying to obtain the understanding at what level of acquired knowledge are the studen...More

When my son was a freshman in high school, he would tell me about situations that had started occurring with the treatment of several students from Asian descent who were attending the school as part of a student exchange program. The school whe...More

As an educator and a parent, I did not learn about IXL until I began teaching at my current school. One of my schools math teachers, who first introduced me to IXL, explained to me that the purpose is to give stu...More