So far educators in Washington, North Carolina, and Tennessee have taken home educational technology prizes as a part of our Q6 Tweetaway Contest.
Gordon Lampley is Qwizdom’s Week 2 Tweetaway winner.  However, he does not want to keep the prize,  a copy of Qwizdom’s Connect software and access to Premium Services.  Gordon retired from teaching last [...]

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 [...]

Thursday, May 13, 2010
Many classes have one: The shy student who knows the answer but hesitates to speak.
The fear of being picked on as the smart kid in class can be overwhelming for people throughout their academic years, including for middle school students.
But failure to participate in class could lower a student’s grade and prompt [...]

By David Nagel
Ed tech developer Qwizdom has started shipping a new wireless student response system, one that offers a 2.3-inch (diagonal) LCD screen and cell phone-style keypad for student interaction and formative testing on the fly.
The system, the Q6, is the latest in Qwizdom’s line of student response technologies, which also includes the entry-level Q2 and midrange Q4 [...]

The new Q6 student response system (SRS) from Qwizdom features a larger LCD screen and a keypad similar to that of a cell phone, allowing students to enter text-based responses to instructor questions. In addition, the device allows students to enter scientific, mathematic, superscript and subscript expressions, along with general punctuation symbols found on a [...]

Story & Photos by Michael Brunk
As data is displayed on a wall screen via a digital projector, participants sitting at tables provide input using wireless, hand-held devices. Nearby are racks of net books, available for projects or research. The leader is using a wireless pad to control the flow of information appearing on the screen.
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The following review was posted to anseo.net on April 7, 2010. A link to the original post is available below.
The Qwizdom Q7 slate is a wireless slate that can be used to interact with a computer. The company who sell these slates (Qwizdom) sent me one to check it out.  With the NCTE are recommending [...]

BY KATHRYN DAVIS
A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found most teenagers average over 7.5 hours a day (or about 53 hours a week) using some form of media technology. Because of the constant growth in new technologies and 24-hour accessibility, parents and teachers may worry that their teens’ time and attention is being [...]

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 [...]