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Blended learning is on the rise and being used more than online learning in some countries around the world.

Tapping Into Mobile Learning: Parents’ Thoughts About Mobile Devices for Early Childhood and K-12 Learning

Three young digitally-savvy women at the Digital Data Strategist Program at Hyper Island Stockholm have written a book about HTML coding…for children. Are toddlers too young to learn how to build a website? These women don’t think so! Cody the Coder in My First Website takes a toddler through a magical world where he has to create his home (his website), and as you read through, one can’t be help become more familiar with the HTML code snippets necessary to build your first website.

CWIST (pronounced \ˈkwist\), is a new incentive-based digital platform for children ages 5 – 11 that provides a community for parents and educators to share ideas and find fun kids’ challenges or “CWISTs” that match the unique learning needs of their children. CWISTs are crowd-sourced from parents, educators, influential mom bloggers and child experts and posted in the extensive interactive library where children can explore the value of earning, work ethic and delayed gratification.

This infographic from InternationalQualification.com looks at 7 key points for stepping into the 21st Century classroom. They explain that the 21st century classroom has given a new dimension to education involving students to use various applications, Web 2.0 and other technological tools. The modern educational system emphasizes more on technology and practicality to prepare their students as perfect future employees so that they don’t fall short in any circumstances at their workplace.

Playful Learning, the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal award-winning online learning website for kids, today announced the release of its newest Ecademy class titled Stress Management: Help Your Child Find Peace Inside & Out. In this new online class, founder Mariah Bruehl offers families a positive and productive approach to stress management for kids by teaching them to learn to manage stress and anxiety more effectively.

Ireland is one of many countries trying to instigate reform in their math syllabus. The problems of the old teaching method were that students memorized formulas and learned how to solve math problems in a fixed way, without really understanding the core concepts. 

The European Award for Best Content for Kids highlights existing quality content for 4-12 year-old children and encourages the production of new content that will offer young people online opportunities to learn, play, discover and invent. The competition, organised by the Insafe network within the framework of the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme, was launched on 9 May and will run in most EU member states and also in Iceland, Norway and Russia during 2013.

  

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses ) are the buzzword in educational technology at the moment and this infographic from Enterasys gives the low down on what educational providers think of them and their benefits.

It’s been said that the UK is lagging behind and falling down the league tables of international education standards. London based private tutoring agency, Tutor House, looks at the facts and figures behind the falling standards of the UK education industry in this infographic.

Sparkfun have recently launched an educational portal on their site with lots of electronics tutorials and detailed handouts and presentations. The electronics providers are also hosting their fifth annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) on June the 8th, 2013.

Collegedegreesearch.net takes a look at the evolution of online schooling from its humble beginnings in radio and television to the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) we have available at our finger tips today.

This infographic addresses the really interesting topic of how twins learn and develop when in the same classroom. Should they be separated or kept together? Check out this infographic from OnlineSchools for some insights.