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A fresh perspective on VR in special education
In early 2021, Spaulding Academy & Family Services applied for and received a technology grant from the Flutie Foundation for the purchase of virtual reality (VR) headsets. We are a small, nonprofit special education school serving students with a wide range of abilities, including many who are on the Autism Spectrum and/or have limited mobility, and it was very […]
How our district established a unified communication platform
With 3,300 students across three different schools, our district was using a variety of diverse applications for school-to-home communications. They all handled separate aspects of our teacher-parent communications, but they weren’t cohesive. We started looking for a new solution in 2019 that would consolidate the multiple, disparate tools into one platform and then quickly kicked […]
3 major challenges teachers are juggling in the pandemic
Student behavior and social-emotional health remain the top challenge for teachers this year, according to a recent survey from the nonprofit Leanlab Education. Leanlab surveyed more than 240 teachers in its report, Tell Us How You Really Feel: A Survey of Teacher Sentiment, to better understand the main challenges and successes teachers are facing almost […]
Why active learning environments are key to student engagement
Technology’s pivotal role in education can’t be denied, and it will remain a constant in classrooms. Many schools are turning to active learning environments to effectively use technology to help engage students in learning. When students are engaged in their learning via active learning environments, they absorb more content and they intuitively explore concepts at […]
10 cool AR and VR tools for the classroom
We all know that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are super fun, but AR and VR tools can also be incredibly powerful when integrated into classroom learning. What’s the difference? AR is the idea that the user brings something into their real world and using a device to see something that isn’t actually […]
11 educator perspectives on post-COVID learning
March marks two years since the COVID-19 pandemic forced nationwide classroom closures. And in those two years, educators and students have learned to make virtual learning work for them, they’ve shared how equity gaps impact their ability to teach and learn, and they’ve proven how resilient they are despite ongoing struggles. eSchool News asked educators […]
The new normal: Edtech techniques that will inspire learning
In this episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education, hosted by Kevin Hogan: 3 tools to support trauma-informed teaching. Why You Should Focus on Esports – Experts Share their Advice e-Learning requires Wi-Fi optimization
Why competency-based education is challenging centuries of tradition
It’s been nearly four centuries since the first formal classrooms appeared in what would eventually become the United States. The earliest example of a public school was the Boston Latin School, founded in 1635, the first to relieve families of having to educate their kids at home in the “three R’s”—reading, writing, and arithmetic. Despite […]
Where do IEPs stand two years into COVID?
There’s no doubt that every student lost valuable in-person school time over the last two school years. But students with IEPs faced additional challenges keeping pace during remote or hybrid learning. Now that students have generally returned to their school buildings, educators are preparing for customary IEP reviews and progress reports. However, they are likely […]
Using VR to radically improve learning outcomes
“When will I ever use this?” Math students have been asking educators this very question for decades. And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical […]
