Author Sami Rahman, co-founder of the online database of disability-friendly mobile applications known as BridgingApps , offers tips in this blog post to help teachers and parents customize iPads for students with disabilities.
A recent survey of teachers in the United Kingdom reveals that about half of those questioned had, in the past year, considered leaving the profession.
Children are failing to pick up traditional values at school as teachers increasingly prioritise exam results over the development of pupils' "character", according to a leading headmaster.
In Elise Carter’s second-grade class, some students still write their numbers backward or look at their fingers to add. Others race through multiplication tables or search the Web to teach themselves about negative numbers.
"If there’s something you don’t understand, just raise your hand and ask a question." Almost every teacher says that line to her class on the first day of school. But when that professor's in the middle of explaining a concept and everyone else looks like they understand, following that advice isn't as easy as it…
When we talk about using cell phones in class, we’re not just talking about using cell phones in class. The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets.
Schools worldwide are experimenting with allowing students to access the Internet while taking exams. Most recently, a high school in Oslo, Norway, announced it would experiment with the practise, and officials declared a similar experiment in 2009 in Denmark was a success.