An afternoon at the playground might be the perfect time to introduce kids to physics. SciPlay, part of the New York Hall of Science, is working to develop an app…
Continue readingEffective educational technology does not have to be a “disruptive force” in the classroom. This recent Slate.com article makes a compelling, and reassuring, case for the blended learning model of…
Continue readingWe’ve written about flipped classrooms on the blog before: In a traditional classroom, the instructor lectures, presents information to the students, and then the students work through problems on their…
Continue readingWe’ve blogged about MIT+K12 Videos before; today BostInno posted a great writeup about the program with insights from program coordinator Elizabeth Choe: In Choe’s eyes, MIT K+12 is a way…
Continue readingPrashanth Venkataram and Maria Cassidy are MIT seniors, and they want to tell you about invisibility cloaks. Remember this scene? Here‘s their explanation of it! The Physics of Invisibility Cloaks…
Continue readingSlate recently wrote about Battushig Myanganbayar, who at 15 aced 6.002x, the first MOOC from MIT based on the sophomore level engineering course. As Slate puts it: Designers of the…
Continue readingDubai, UAE, 16 March 2014: GEMS Education, the leading K-12 Education provider, has partnered with edX to provide courses aimed at pre-university students. GEMS will be the first K-12 education…
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