Want to hear the full panel? Check out the latest episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast here. The classroom. Since the 1950s, the setup of your average second, sixth or tenth grade classroom hasn’t ...

This summer we brought eight teachers, who teach eight different courses, together for a week of self-directed professional development (PD). Would they survive to tell the tale? For educators like us ...

Less than one year ago, we launched a new initiative in teacher professional development: The Modern Classrooms Project. As teachers at a Title I high school in the District of Columbia, we had ...

Students engage in discussion using the white boards provided in the active learning classroom. This allows them to effectively share ideas with each other and the teacher. (Photo courtesy of Julia ...

That student comment was one of many positive reviews of Del Mar Union School District’s new modern classroom prototypes. Embracing an open floor plan design, the entire room is used for learning with ...

Evolution biased the human mind to attend to some types of information over others—often the exact opposite of what teachers wish children would learn As children settle into their classrooms for the ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Over the past several years, schools ...

Presenters and exhibitors highlighted tools to capture students’ attention and make teachers’ lives easier at this year’s TCEA event in Texas. Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12 ...

Betsy DeVos rankled public school teachers Tuesday when she tweeted a picture criticizing classroom structure. The problem? According to teachers, the picture doesn't accurately reflect what a modern ...

The aim of technology may be to make processes more efficient and to expand our horizons, but unless used appropriately, it can also make life unnecessarily complicated. In the classroom, teachers are ...