Tomorrow, February 1, is the first national “Digital Learning Day,” an event designed to expand recognition of technology in education and promote innovation. The concept is as sprawling as digital learning itself, but the idea is to set aside one day for “trying something new, showcasing success, kicking off project-based learning, or focusing on how digital… Read more »
As I have written about before, I’m a big proponent of getting eBooks into my scholars’ hands. Previously, I cast my vote for Stanza as my favorite app for reading eBooks on an iPad or other iOS device, but I’ve recently changed my mind. Here’s why you should go with Apple’s own iBooks. (And it’s… Read more »
Back in September, I was sitting in a collaborative planning session with my principal and my department chair when an assistant principal stuck her head in the room and asked to speak to me outside. With her stood our technology coordinator. They showed me a piece of paper with the name of a wireless network… Read more »
Socrative is a simple web-based student response system that I’ve tinkered with on several occasions, but its streamlined interface sits atop a deceptively powerful piece of software. The flexibility makes it something I’d recommend to any teacher with at least a handful of web-enabled devices, be those iPads, iPod Touches, laptops, smartphones, or even a… Read more »
Your students need books that they will like reading. One way to get them those books is to hand them a hard copy. Another way, if you’ve got the right technology, is to give them an ebook. Anyone who has seen a Kindle is familiar with the basic idea of what an ebook is: it’s… Read more »
Over the weekend, I had the privilege to attend a portion of the second Startup Weekend event focused on education. Startup Weekend is itself a startup organization that organizes gatherings of developers, designers, business and marketing experts, and investors to build startup companies in a single weekend. This year, the organization began a series of… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I currently teach 7th-grade English / Reading / Language Arts at a turnaround school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year, my classroom is piloting a 1:1 iPad program designed to accelerate middle-school literary. I write about education technology here at appratt.com and at the EdTech 101 blog on . I'm a 2010 Teach For America corps member, and before that I was the managing editor at , the science and tech policy magazine at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.