Edtech By Marketscale

Today we had the chance to chat with Sara Acre, a recent teaching graduate from Cornell University. We discuss the recent adoption of technology in the halls of academia, the risks of too much information in a short period of time, and we ponder the philosophical meaning of forgetting how to write in cursive.

High School students who drop out or fail is common but maybe there is something out there to help certain people receive the help they need to graduate and succeed. With large districts housing hundreds of students in each class, it’s easy to get lost in the system of names but Nathan Trenholm and Justin White, former district staffers, may have the solution. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal,” It’s a data visualization tool is helping educators in the Clark County (NV) School District better monitor which students are on track to graduate and increase support for those who are not.

The learning process in today’s classrooms is completely night and day from where it was at just ten years ago and for many teachers, they are finding that students are leaning toward the direction of “picting.” This refers to the process of learning new ideas through images rather than traditional text and for many, it’s becoming the norm in today’s education system.