Students in developing countries can use a free app called Library for All to access books and other resources that would otherwise not be available to them. Rebecca McDonald of Australia created the app after volunteering for hurricane relief work in Haiti in 2010. She says the books, available through the app, are authored by local writers and illustrators, allowing students to read books in their own languages. The books and educational resources can be used on a mobile phone or e-reader.
ClassDojo is a classroom management system designed to help teachers improve student behavior. Positive and negative feedback points can be awarded in real time for behavior in class and teachers can create reports using the data for parents and students to access...
With teen attention focusing away from Facebook and onto other social networking apps, Time magazine outlines 5 iPhone apps that parents should know about to stay in the loop on what is popular with teens...
With teen attention focusing away from Facebook and onto other social networking apps, Time magazine outlines 5 iPhone apps that parents should know about to stay in the loop on what is popular with teens...
As technology continues to evolve, a number of mobile applications have been created that are designed to help students with their homework. However, in some cases the apps are doing much of the work – sometimes even all of the work -- for students, leading some to question whether the high-tech helpers equate to cheating...
As technology continues to evolve, a number of mobile applications have been created that are designed to help students with their homework. However, in some cases the apps are doing much of the work – sometimes even all of the work -- for students, leading some to question whether the high-tech helpers equate to cheating...
YikYak, a location based app that allows users to post anonymous statements online, is in the news again with schools making complaints about inappropriate use of the app leading to cyberbullying and intimidation..
YikYak, a location based app that allows users to post anonymous statements online, is in the news again with schools making complaints about inappropriate use of the app leading to cyberbullying and intimidation..
Whisper, the social networking app that lets users post anonymous messages, may have been tracking its users' locations - even those users who have opted out of the service's geolocation features...
Whisper, the social networking app that lets users post anonymous messages, may have been tracking its users' locations - even those users who have opted out of the service's geolocation features...
Perhaps you have been told to create a contact in your phone labeled ICE, for “in case of emergency,” filled with the name and number of a spouse, parent, child or friend who should be notified if anything should happen to you. The problem with that is if your phone is locked with a passcode or fingerprint, it might be impossible for someone to find that contact in an emergency. Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 8, has created a possible solution to allow access to emergency contacts without unlocking the phone...