By JAIMEE LYNN FLETCHER
LOS ALAMITOS–Oak Middle School has seen a significant jump in its state test scores since the introduction of a new learning technology that forces students to participate in classroom lessons and helps teachers better tailor their lectures, officials said.
Social Studies teacher Todd Schmidt acted as the guinea pig for the Los Alamitos [...]

The ancient Syracuse problem-solver Archimedes would have appreciated his namesake Archimedes Academy in the Bronx. This 6-12th grade math, science, and technology NYC public school is run by Miriam Lazar—a modern day mathematician, principal, education entrepreneur, author, and problem solver. Unlike Archimedes, her tasks are a bit more difficult—and require a bit more work before shouting Eureka.
unning a [...]

By Peter Milosheff
Archimedes Academy, on Thursday, March 11 at 1:00 pm, welcomed guests for the first time, to show off how technology is dramatically changing the way kids are learning in some NYC public schools.
The school’s tech-savvy 6th grade Math and Science teachers opened their doors and allowed visitors to literally join the class and challenge themselves [...]

by Christine Weiser, Managing Editor
March 12, 2010
I’ve been reporting on education for a long time. I’ve been to countless education conferences, reviewed thousands of press releases, and talked to hundreds of educators about how they are changing the lives of young people through the effective use of education technology.
But I don’t get to visit them [...]

Remember the days when students would raise their hand and then write their answers with chalk on the chalkboard? Well, those days are long gone.

The Indianapolis News 6 stopped by Rousseau McClellan Montessori School to check out how they use technology in the classroom.  This story covers one of our partners, PolyVision, and how this classroom is using the technology to learn vocabulary.
You can watch here.

“I never win anything!”  That’s what Kevin Casey tweeted when we confirmed him as the winner of Qwizdom’s classroom tweetaway during FETC last week.
His history class at Pitman High School in New Jersey will be getting a serious revamp with a full suite of Qwizdom educational technology products. Casey won 24 Q2 remotes for engaging [...]

Carleton Lyon was sitting in a quiet FETC session on SMS in schools when he let out an unexpected yell. Turning to the Qwizdom representative in the room, he yelled again. “I won the tweetaway!”  As the first educator to correctly answer a trivia question posted to Twitter, Lyon had just learned he would be [...]

With FETC behind us, we’d like to give a big round of applause for the thousands of educators, administrators, staff and friends who all chipped in to help make FETC a big success. Follow us on twitter and we’ll see you at TCEA!

One year ago, Qwizdom was featured on the Nightly Business Report as part of their coverage of the “Business of Education” in Orlando and Miami-Dade. With FETC just a week + away, we’re posting the video for reference.