11 June 2019Caitlin Zolet and Stacey Roshan, Bullis School
This is a guest blog post from Caitlin Zolet and Stacey Roshan, educators at the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. The original post can be found on Stacey's personal blog: techieMusings.
Last May, my colleague — middle school math teacher Caitlin Zolet — was looking to bring some fun and creative expression to exam review for her pre-algebra students. Inspired by math wall clocks, Caitlin decided to have her students pull together skills they had learned over the course of the year to design clocks of their own.
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11 June 2019John McGowan, Product Manager
Last fall we announced the first phase of our French language support in EquatIO for Google. Today, we are pleased to release the final piece of the puzzle, making EquatIO for Google fully functional in French!
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11 June 2019Patrick McGrath
Originally featured in Teach Secondary, Patrick explains how technology can help improve literacy for every learner, right across the curriculum...
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07 June 2019Ruth Scott, Content Specialist
Here at Texthelp, we’ve been big advocates of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for quite some time now. We’re fervent believers in allowing students to access and integrate into their own education journey, at times and in ways that are most suitable for them. We’re frequent attendees at the annual UDL-IRN conference and have made lots of life-long friends there who are both advocates for and experts on UDL.
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03 June 2019John McGowan, Product Manager
We have released a new update to EquatIO for Windows and EquatIO for Mac, which enables Microsoft Word users to edit equations built with MathType and the Microsoft Equation Editor directly with EquatIO and even reinsert them as Microsoft Word equations.
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30 May 2019Dave Edyburn Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Community Innovation and Education, University of Central Florida
According to recent data from the National Assessment of Student Performance, two-thirds of K-12 students are not writing at levels expected for their grade level. The fundamental issue is that, nationally, writing has not been given the same attention as math and reading.
When writing is not a priority in elementary school, it becomes difficult to teach by middle school when large class sizes are the norm. This begs for technology intervention.
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