Tag: edtech
Retooling from the Classroom to the Workplace
When COVID-19 began to spread, businesses and schools...
UNESCO Sees Role of EdTech in Multilingual Learning
The theme of last month’s International Mother Language Day, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” raised the potential of technology to...
Teacher, Influencer, Developer
Diversity has become a more common topic, especially at work. It is looked at not only in terms of race and gender but also...
Challenging the Neutrality Myth of EdTech
Media technology has been introduced into classrooms at least since the time of educational filmstrips. Later, private media companies began providing schools with “free”...
‘Shark Tank’ for Language Apps
Next weekend, the Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center (Tech Center) in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawaiʻi at...
Introducing ‘School’
Q1: What activity can’t parents get kids to sit still for? Q2: What activity can’t parents get kids to stop doing?
A1: Online school....
Five Million Assessments Reveal COVID Educational Slide
A new report based on 5.3 million assessments of student progress in grades 1-8 details the effects on learning associated with COVID-19 school disruptions....
TESOL’s ‘Quick Guide’ to the 6 Principles
The 6 Principles® Quick Guide: Remote Teaching of K-12 English...
A Third of World’s Schoolchildren Cannot Learn Remotely
At least a third of the world’s schoolchildren were unable to access remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered their schools, according to a new UNICEF...