Tag: CLASSROOM

A group of Memphis-based Teach For America candidates is testing wireless headsets in the classroom. A mentor located in another room provides feedback and support to the teacher through the headset, just like an NFL coach does to a quarterback. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Memphis TFA branch will study how teachers who wear the headsets adjust to leading a classroom ...

In 1999, Professor Sugata Mitra was working for a software company in Delhi, at an office building surrounded by one of India's infamous slums. The children populating the slum, needless to say, were mired in poverty, and hardly spent any time in school, much less in front of a computer. That didn't stop Mitra, though, from embedding computers on the walls of his office building, and exposing ...

Share As any college student can tell you, textbooks are a pain. Filling your bookshelf each semester not only puts a dent in your wallet, but guarantees that you'll be left trying to sell a sleigh full of intro-level books by year's end. College students, then, would seem to be the perfect demographic for Amazon's Kindle reader. As it turns out, though, the Kindle is having a surprisingly tough ...

We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Lee Sheldon, a teacher of game design in Indiana, bases his entire teaching philosophy on the online game, 'World of Warcraft.' The nerdy professor coordinates several game design courses at Indiana University, and has now overhauled the grading system of his classes in an effort to better motivate students. Instead of traditional grades, IU game ...

Throw away those old, heavy textbooks, kids. But don't get too excited. There will still be plenty of studying, just in a less back-breaking way. With many school systems crunched for money, there's a move toward digital learning in the classroom. According to The New York Times, classrooms may be devoid of traditional textbooks within the next five years. As previously reported, California is ...

Of all the things one can do during class to help improve test scores, surfing the Web certainly isn't one of them. Seems obvious to us, but it took a teacher from the University of Colorado at Boulder to single it out before her group of students wised up. Once they did, their test scores improved. Diane Sieber, an associate professor, picked out the 17 students in her classes who were using ...