NASA Invites Education Reporters to Get #spacED at Johnson

NASA Invites Education Reporters to Get #spacED at Johnson

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston is inviting education-focused media to attend a two-day #spacED event on Sept. 15 and 16. The event will highlight the International Space Station and the one-year mission with astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. As students and educators get into the flow of…
Hatch English Language Learners Software for Preschool

Hatch English Language Learners Software for Preschool

Hatch, Inc., a leading provider of educational technology and classroom materials for early childhood, announces new Shell Squad Adventures – Dual Language software for preschool classrooms. Young English Language Learners (ELL) advance through 18 learning games and earn hidden rewards as they develop early literacy and math skills in Spanish,…
Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker is a two-year program created by Verizon and launched this month at Kentucky State University with a $400,000 Verizon Foundation grant. The program seeks to empower a new generation of minority men by giving them lifelong technology and entrepreneurship skills to build future innovations and create brighter…
Waterford Releases Mobile Curriculum for Early Learning

Waterford Releases Mobile Curriculum for Early Learning

Waterford Institute announced Monday another platform for Waterford Early Learning, this time on iPad. Utilizing the widely accepted Apple iPad in schools across the U.S., the Waterford Early Learning (WEL) curriculum is optimized for touch and set to release this summer in time for back-to-school training. Waterford has enhanced nearly…
Constructive Education Framework for Students in India

Constructive Education Framework for Students in India

The following curriculum is developed for those forward-looking schools and parents who believe that the current education system in India is not quite helpful to ensure the right career for their children in the modern knowledge-driven world. Schools and parents who want to adopt this modern system for the education…
Are Teachers Prepared to Use Technology in Classrooms?

Are Teachers Prepared to Use Technology in Classrooms?

Although 90 percent of teachers believe that technology in the classroom is important to student success, 60 percent of teachers feel they are inadequately prepared to use technology in classrooms, according to research released Tuesday by Samsung Electronics America and GfK. A nationwide survey of K-12 teachers revealed that while…
Top STEM Students Design Space Capsules

Top STEM Students Design Space Capsules

More than 200 middle-school students from Sarasota County finished their school year by tackling "real-world" business challenges like designing marketable Tervis drinkware and developing a space capsule prototype for human spaceflight. The activities were part of the 2015 STEMsmart Middle School Summit, an event sponsored by Gulf Coast Community Foundation…