Robots in the Classroom and on the Red Planet
For most of us reading this, it's been a minute since we've attended middle school. Naturally, you’d imagine the textbooks currently in use have been updated over the years....
The Future of Education: How Blended Learning Prepares Students for Success
Gone are the days of overhead projectors and composition notebooks in the classroom. The technology revolution has made its way into education. Some critics frown upon the rapid influx...
Should Schools Teach Students How to Spot Fake News?
While the educational curriculum has not changed markedly for many students over the years, the world around the classroom has rapidly changed.
This dynamic begs the question of whether the...
6 Habits of Highly Effective E-Teachers
6 Habits of highly effective e-teachers
Some of us can distinctly recall a charismatic, persuasive or empathetic teacher – someone who cut through our teenage turmoil and managed to teach us...
Why Schools Struggle to Produce Work-Ready Graduates for Tech Fields
On this episode of the EdTech Podcast, host Tyler Kern sat down with Jenielyn Padernal, director of e-learning integration at Cypher Learning to discuss the challenges some educational institutions...
Why Teaching Graphic Design Means Constantly Learning
Technology has driven change in just about every industry. Often this is associated with the acceleration of process and production, but the design world is also being shaped by...
Making Robotics Easier to Implement in STEM Classrooms
Robotics kits are becoming a standard teaching tool in the classroom, but there’s still a lot of complexity and cost associated with incorporating this popular STEM tool, said longtime...
IT in the Classroom: “It Just Has to Work”
Paper and pencils are out, laptops and tablets are in. Today’s students utilize a wealth of technology in the classroom but ensuring that the network and connected devices run...
Device Management in the Classroom Gives Teachers Their Time Back
The primary school classroom has changed dramatically in just the last 20 years. Computer Science classes used to cover typing speed and little more. Today, kids must be primed...
Technology is Proving Successful for Early Literacy Efforts
Technology tools, like the online learning portal from Dallas-based Istation, are not only helping students in elementary school, but they are aiding early literacy efforts for kids just coming...
Rah Rah Combines Multiple Student Life Platforms into One System
College life has become more personalized and diversified with seemingly endless choices for students, but one student life platform is making this kind of discovery easier for students and...
More Resources for Registrars Will Mean Better Education for Students
University curriculums have mostly kept pace with new majors, changing careers, and student interests, but one area that’s been left behind is the class scheduling process. Higher education administrators...
Rethinking the Classroom and Taking Desks Out of the Equation
We all have in our minds what a classroom looks like—desks, structure, all eyes to the whiteboard, or screens at the front. While technology has undoubtedly woven its way...
Predictive Assessments Can Lead to More Personalized Instruction
Educators have known for a while that personalized, one-on-one education is the way forward for the classroom. But the reality is, with large classrooms and tight schedules, giving this...
Where Do You Find the Money to Fund STEM Education?
Funding for education initiatives is not just a school district or state issue, it is national one. The current state of our workforce, with consistently changing technology and a...
With Tight School Budgets, Where Do You Cut Costs? A Superintendent’s Perspective, with Katie...
Whether within or without the industry, most can agree on the importance of education and giving children all of the tools they need to be successful, especially as the...
FETC According to Matt Miller
Putting the students first can seem like an obvious idea when it comes to education, but sometimes it can get lost in the noise created by new and exciting...
Teachers, Make Time for One on One Tutoring in the Classroom, with Ryan Patenaude...
Continuous improvement is the crux of our schooling system, not only for students but for educators, too. What the industry has seen, both through shifts in culture and technology,...
Bringing New Technology to a School District of 7000 with Rachelle Butz of Monroe...
What do you do when technology in your school district is outdated, inaccessible to all students and only in their hands a few times a month? In this digital...
MarketScale EdTech 02/05/19: Where Does EdTech Fit into the Workplace?
On today’s MarketScale EdTech Podcast Show, we talk to Monica Burns and MarketScale's own Emily Rector about the use of AR in the classroom and the use of EdTech—including...
When School’s Cut Energy Spending, Teachers Stay, with Tony Erickson of Cenergistic
Today, our country is in the midst of an education crisis with teachers quitting their jobs at the fastest rate since the government started collecting this data in 2001....
MarketScale EdTech 1/22/19: The Legacies of Higher Education and Coding Language
As technology has evolved, have our thoughts on the qualifications and training necessary to enter the workforce changed along with it? Today's podcast takes a look at the potential...
MarketScale EdTech 01/15/19: Big Results from Unorthodox Methods
No two people learn the exact same way. The more technology that moves into the classroom, the more avenues that become available for teachers to help impart knowledge to...
MarketScale EdTech 01/08/19: The Power of Continuous Education
2019 is going to be a big year for EdTech, mostly because of the shift in generational teaching. Gen Z's flexible learning style is leading to new methodologies, new...
MarketScale EdTech 12/27/18: Will VR Transform the Classroom or Empower it?
Today's MarketScale EdTech podcast show takes the tech fight to the classroom, analyzing three different perspectives on how and why technology is taking the lead in more engaging, adaptive...