Google
Teaching
Opinion
Using Google Forms to Teach Kids to Give Quality Feedback
Providing feedback is in fact an art and we can scaffold the process to make kids better at it, using technology or without. How do you help students provide better feedback? Read on to find out how I teach students to do it better.
Education
Opinion
How to Collaborate on Google Docs Like a Pro
Collaboration is a real-world skill students will use in their careers. Thanks to available technology, they can build that ability at zero cost.
Education
Does Google Help Students Learn (or Just Think They Do?)
Researchers at the Association for Psychological Science find online searches may affect the way students remember and think about what they learn.
Science
Opinion
Inspiring Women Series: Kara Levy, Lead Engineer for Google Classroom
In this final post of the Inspiring Women Series, I chat with Kara Levy, a lead engineer at Google who is working on the Google Classroom project. As a female engineer working to transform education, she is the perfect voice to inspire and close out the series. Kara shares more about her work at Google, her inspiration to become an engineer and advice to young girls hoping to follow in her footsteps.
Ed-Tech Policy
News in Brief
Google Commits to Pledge on Student-Data Privacy
After initially declining to sign, the technology giant Google has joined a growing number of companies committing to a "student-privacy pledge" launched by advocacy groups and endorsed by the White House.
Teaching
Opinion
Start Up Spotlight: Hapara
In this third of the Start Up Spotlight series, I chat with Jan Zawadzki and Jack West of Hapara. Hapara is an amazing system to, as they say, "make learning visible." It turbo-charges the power of Google Apps for Education to empower both teachers and students to seamlessly manage workflow, student support and instruction. From sending supportive messages to students to seeing each students' screen in realtime to managing and distributing Drive files, Blogger posts, and Google Sites, Hapara has a myriad of tools to create a truly paperless and poweful classroom environment. In this video interview the CEO and founder Jan and classroom teacher-turned Hapara leader Jack share the origin story of the start up, how they leverage teacher thinking and their philosphy for supporting educators around the world.
Professional Development
Opinion
A Tale of Failure, Passion and Drive (pun intended): Meet Andrew Stillman, the Godfather of EduScripts
For Connected Educators Month, I decided to connect with some educators... through Google Hangouts. I reached out to some folks who I believe are making positive change in the world of teaching and learning and asked them to join me for a quick video chat to learn more about how they got started, what drives them and what the future holds. The first in this series is Andrew Stillman, the godfather of edu-scripts.
Education
Opinion
Educators Can Learn a Few Things From Google
As we end another school year, Julie Blaine is thinking about how to best fuel her summer learning. Read how she looks to Google to spark ideas on developing organizational strategies that help schools and their leaders deal with change.
Education
Opinion
Guest Post: Why We Went Google Apps
Jen Carey of the Ransom Everglades school explains why they recently adopted Google Apps for Education.
Education
Opinion
3 Google Apps that Deserve More Love
Google Apps for Education is an incredibly popular ecosystem for students, teachers and everyone in between. From Google Docs to YouTube, this suite of resources and tools is becoming more of a central fixture in our schools. However, there are some lesser-used Google Apps that have great potential to impact teaching and learning. Here are three Google Apps that I think deserve a little more love...
Education
Opinion
What Does The Google Investment in Renaissance Learning Mean?
Maybe like me, you asked yourself last week, what does the $40 million Google investment in Renaissance Learning mean? There are two implications of the big deal: personalized learning paths are rapidly becoming a reality and the big guys will play a key role in innovation.
Education
Opinion
Can't Get There From Here? Try a Google Hangout
Google Hangouts can open up leaders and educators to a whole new world, and they won't even have to leave their classroom or office.
Science
Opinion
Computer Programming: A New Frontier
Tech giants like Google and Microsoft have issued a call for global government surveillance reform, marking quite publicly that we live in a world where technological advancement has accelerated passed our cultural capacity to regulate it. Fears of spying and data ownership have negatively affected K-12, but the advancement has also created new industries for career paths, and with them the need for new educational focus areas.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Mark it a Ten: Tech Acquirers Enter the World of Education
With the rise of ed-tech over the past few years, we have seen a steady stream of publishers, media companies, and private equity shops acting on the back-end of the venture market as the ultimate acquirers. But we have not seen a major technology company jump on board... until now, with Amazon's purchase of TenMarks
