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The Best New eBook: Frankenstein!
When I was a kid I loved those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. Do you guys remember those? It was always so much fun to have options to choose how the story went…although, of course, I always...
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A Math App Worth Bragging About!
Native Numbers by Native Brain, Inc. On Tuesday I wrote about a math app that gave me paroxysms so today I want to write about a math app that gives me the warm fuzzies. It only seems fair. This way...
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Numerosity: review of a new Math app from ThoughtBox!
Today I’m so fortunate to be blogging to you from the West Indian island of Grenada…the Spice Island…where there are frequent reminders of the fact that the issues we debate here on this blog truly are...
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Huge Growth in Kids’ Device Use
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about kids and devices. It’s mostly as market research for my new business (more about that later) and, luckily for me, it’s also really interesting. I knew...
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I am an Edupreneur.
Last week my friend Frank Catalano wrote a wonderful piece for the MindShift blog. He talked about the fact that there is a plethora of new companies looking to apply technology to the education...
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Junky Educational Apps and the People Who Make Them.
This image originally appeared on the Mary Shadd Public School website. The other day I had another reminder of just how naive I really am. You’d think by now I would be a bit wilier. But no. So...
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Creating Effective (and Successful) Educational Apps!
I often get my inspiration for blog posts by reading the blog posts of others…and today is no exception. Yesterday, on the Edudemic blog, Jeff Dunn wrote a post called A Roadmap for Successful...
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A Physics Education App that Teaches!
One of the complaints I frequently hear from teachers is that there just aren’t very many good high school level science instruction apps out there. And from what I’ve seen, they’re right. There are...
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Parents’ thoughts on K12 Mobile Learning!
We know that smart devices and mobile learning are HOT in K12 right now. And here’s what parents have to say (we think they like it!)
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My 100th Post: Balefire Labs and #EdApps
I’ve been a bit off the grid this past week, so my apologies for not writing. That said, this is my 100th blog post! Wow! Thinking back to my first blog post, it’s been a really fun ride. For my 100th...
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EdTech Reviews: What is an “Objective” Criterion?
For most people this will probably be an incredibly boring post. You’ve been warned. For others, like me, who are very concerned with language in science, and precision of language, this is the post...
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Ed App Reviews: Will My Kid Like It?
This image originally appeared on http://www.neontommy.com/news/2013/06/apple-inc-provide-30000-ipads-47-la-schools I’ve noticed something pretty interesting in ed tech. I’m wondering if you’ve noticed...
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HUGE News! Find the Best Educational Apps NOW!
Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for, so I hope you’ll forgive my overflowing giddiness! Yes, today, my new business, Balefire Labs, launches!! Parents and teachers, we can help you find the...
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Only Two of the Top 10 EdApps in iTunes are Worth Buying
This blog post originally appeared on the Balefire Labs blog. A lot of teachers and parents we talk to have told us that when they are trying to find apps for their kids they look at the Top Charts in...
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What I Learned at my CHIFOO Talk
This past Wednesday I had the opportunity to give a talk at the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO). CHIFOO is a really interesting group. They are a local chapter of SIGCHI, the...
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Does Price Predict Quality of Educational Apps?
Skeptical about the instructional value of paid educational apps? Our research at Balefire Labs shows that you should be. We pretty regularly get questions and comments about paid versus free apps....
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How Does Google Autocomplete EdTech Terms?
Did you all see the image online about each state’s biggest stereotype, according to Google’s autocomplete feature in search? If you missed it, here’s the image from the Huffington Post. So of course,...
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How Can We Encourage Co-Creation in EdTech?
This image originally appeared at http://www.theguardian.com/innovation-nation-awards/innovation-education-technology-barriers It’s been a long week for me. I’ve been working on the next big thing that...
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