Technology

Math Made Fun Iridescent beetles, LEGO gunships, gnomes in peril—math has never been more fun. That’s the point of Math Pickle, a site that employs these and other kid-friendly elements to teach mathematical concepts through More...

Technology has changed what it means to be an author and how people can discover your work. Today, anyone with a computer and Internet access can create an ebook, which is great news for schools. More...

Ready to glean some ideas on working with teens? Then check out YALSA Academy, a free online collection of training videos sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. The service launched last month with More...

Do you have permission to contact your students with updates from the library? I don’t mean having to approach your administrator or IT department, but rather, do you have permission from the students themselves? It’s More...

In this Article The Details It’s been a frequently asked—and highly contentious—question since their nearly simultaneous release in mid-November: Which is the better color ereader/tablet, the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet? I had the More...

Mark Schlichting, president of Noodleworks Interactive, and Kate Wilson,  managing director of Nosy Crow, at the 2012 KAPI Awards. Photo courtesy of Warren Buckleitner. Tucked upstairs in a small room, just above the scrum of More...

Last month I looked at a brand- new class of portable PC, the Ultrabook, and this time I’m following up with yet another spin on the laptop: the Chromebook. Chromebooks are really netbooks in the More...

Alline Sada has curated more than 100 lists of apps and has shared them on APPitic, an online guide to apps for learning with a category for Bloom’s Taxonomy. More...

Reviving a Classic: A favorite gizmo from the seventies is making a comeback—the Polaroid SX-70. Online outfit Photojojo is offering fully functional restored cameras, along with packs of instant PX70 film. The brushed chrome and leather paneled little number that folded flat and popped up for shooting was last produced in 1977. Fans of the first instant SLR have wiped out Photojojo’s stock, but the site promises that more cameras will be available this month. $350. www.photojojo.com. More....

Plop down a large data set in front of most students and their eyes are likely to glaze over. How do they begin to make sense of it? Simply re-presenting that content in the form of charts or maps can make it more accessible. More... More...

I don’t think you should buy ebooks for your library. Nothing personal, this is just math. Right now, ebooks only make economic sense when purchased as part of a consortium. You need to be part of a larger group sharing the costs and distribution of ebooks. And your library needs to carefully consider the type of ebooks being considered. More...

When Wendy Stephens launched a digital library at Buckhorn High School in New Market, AL, the school librarian (http://ow.ly/6t1Od) turned to the classics—and didn’t spend a penny on one. Instead, she’s created a schoolwide ebook collection comprised entirely of public domain content. More...

Where’s My Stuff? If you’ve ever felt the pain of losing your cell phone or keys, there’s a gadget/app for that. The Cobra Tag combines a key fob device paired via Bluetooth with a smartphone More...

Ah, back to school. There’s so much hope in the air. Students and staff alike arrive ready to make it a great year of learning. A common new-school-year resolution for students is to do a More...

Interested in making your own learning app? Then check out eduPad, a French company that’s encouraging educators to transform their lesson plans and curriculum ideas into mobile applications—no coding experience necessary. But only the passionate More...

  Help celebrate Banned Books Week (BBW) this year by uploading a YouTube video of you or your students reading a banned book. Participants honoring the freedom to read from September 21 to October 1 More...

Photograph by Johan Larsson (www.flickr.com/photos/johanl). Students, take out your cell phones and get ready to learn. This will be the year that schools realize the untapped computing potential that’s been walking through classroom doors each More...

Schulten Epstein Ojalvo  Teachers and librarians looking to cover September 11th in the classroom will find an especially rich trove of content in the Learning Network, the educational arm of the New York Times. In More...

From doing research and taking notes to crafting a blog post and sharing photos, apps help me get the job done no matter where I am. These handy tools in the practical vein serve double More...

Lift the Flap App The popular note-taking service Evernote has made a free app to help you study and enhance your memory. The first app designed to work with the iPad 2 Smart Cover, Evernote More...

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