When Scott Mandel visited the British Museum last summer, he knew the displays of Egyptian mummies and treasures would captivate students in his ancient-civilizations class at Pacoima Middle School in ...

Let me say it up front: Playing video isn’t the strong suit of either Apple’s new iPod or Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). The iPod is primarily a music player, and the PSP is primarily a video-game ...

In the fall of 2001, many classes were consumed with discussions about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, as students, teachers, and most Americans were trying to recover from the ...

LearnLinc's capabilities include desktop videoconferencing, online chat, a digital whiteboard feature, polling software, Web access, screen captures and an ability to transmit any commercial computer ...

Generative learning theory posits that learners engage more deeply and produce better learning outcomes when they engage in selecting, organizing, and integrating processes during learning. The ...

Pearson Education Technologies has released 66 new multimedia lessons in mathematics and language arts for its NovaNET comprehensive courseware system, an online, standards-based curriculum and ...

It’s no secret that students arrive at school feeling unfocused and unmotivated. After all, being pulled from your slumber and sent somewhere full of rules you’d rather not follow tends to be ...

Current educator workloads have hindered the adoption within schools of new technology-based tools and processes. Educators are asked to carefully attend to all traditional teaching responsibilities ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling ...