By 2015 most major museums were providing smartphone users with an app that served as a digital educator, offering curated gallery walks and information.
After soft-launching a blocks-based educational robotics kit in the US last summer to gauge local interest, Sony has judged the reception for its Koov kit warm enough to fire a fully fledged educator offering into the US market.
As budgets tighten while voters demand academic results, educators are offering modes of measurement.
However, the Strategy's focus on increasing numbers of more highly qualified educators, and offering ongoing professional development, addresses only some of the issues known to challenge workforce sustainability.
An explanatory model arising from the data grouped facilitation of peer learning into four broad mechanisms: using educator skills; offering a safe place to learn; pushing for change; and reflecting on self.
I would put his idea that decolonization "begins with the physical/spiritual/psychological process of making our bodies and our desire our own" into practice in my own work as a sex radical and educator by offering workshops to help people own their bodies and desires.
By offering educators the ability to identify learning gaps and providing recommendations on how to best fill those gaps (without being swayed by the influence of vendors), BrightBytes has quickly gained favor among K-12 educators.
While MIT App Inventor's original target was educators and students, offering a free learning tool to lower the barrier of entry to coding, the pair say the success of the software — which has been used to make some 13 million apps at this point, and garnered 4.3 million registered users — called for spinning out of the academic setting.
Merit pay offers a fix for the situation, rewarding the best teachers and offering lazy educators an incentive to improve.But what makes a good teacher is a difficult question.
The City of Boston is also putting a significant push behind making quality child care easier to find with the announcement of a $1 million Capital Resources for Educators fund offering low interest loans for safe, quality environments for the city's children.
Tom Roderick, of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, recommends avoiding an accusatory approach when presenting the problem to educators, and instead suggests offering to take part in a school-wide effort to change the climate of bullying in the school.
