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We came across an interesting infographic from edweek which showed that 70% of the top selling educational apps on iTunes are geared towards elementary or pre-school children. It makes an interesting point about app development for middle and high school students. We wonder why is there such a gap between these two markets?

This infographic from StraighterLine delves into the importance of distance education throughout history. Although published last year, it’s still very interesting.

Sir Ken Robinson delivers yet another fantastic TED Talk and tells us how to escape the educational “death valley” we now face. He outlines three principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them.

Everyone has a story to tell, and gone are they days where you need an agent, a publisher and a bank balance to share your stories. Digital storytelling gives students a chance to share their thoughts and creativity with others, and is a great technique for helping them to unlock their artistic side and delve into their imagination.

We love this new TedEd video for the flipped classroom (or even on its own) that uses bright, creative animation to get students to think about the character of history’s most famous (and less famous) individuals like George Washington, Sybil Ludington and Beriah Green.

Award winning educational software startup 3 Elles Interactive have just launched Montessori 1st Operations, a clear and simple approach to addition and subtraction for children aged 5-8 years old. Developed by teachers, Montessori 1st Operations combines pedagogy with the best of 21st Century technology.

Take a look at this infographic from OpenColleges.edu.au, detailing 18 myths people believe about education. Do you agree with some of them or not?

WemoLab, a technology platform company creating global entertainment has launched its first mobile product, SuperFugu, an interactive tablet app built around a superhero puffer fish named Fugu. SuperFugu takes kids on a “digital field trip” of the world’s oceans, allowing them to interact with and learn about different aquatic species while collecting golden coins, escaping dangerous predators, and rescuing and collecting Fugu’s fish friends. SuperFugu is available exclusively for iPad and can be downloaded free on the App Store.

In this, our 5th issue of Teaching The AvatarGeneration, we decided to concentrate on one of the core time-intensive tasks that teachers are faced with day in - day out, grading.

Schoolfy has announced the summer launch of its long-awaited educational technology platform. Touted as a revolutionary classroom management system, the Schoolfy platform builds upon social networking technology to facilitate teacher planning, support online grading, and otherwise enhance educators’ time management.

It’s probably not a stretch to say that most kids don’t find doing math homework particularly fun. That’s where math apps come in. These educational gaming hybrids take learning math, which young students (and adults) may despise more than a trip to the dentist, and cleverly disguise it as just another mobile game they can’t wait to get their hands on.

Preschoolers and kindergartners can get a running start to learning online with the launch of Funbrain Jr. Brought to parents and kids by the trusted site, Funbrain, this new free website offers the youngest learners, ages 2-6, and their parents a safe and fun place to play games, read stories and find printables together.

Eight-year-old Nicolas Come had an epiphany last year; while other kids his age were playing with their friends or mastering basic mathematics in school, the self-proclaimed, “Picky Eater” Nicolas decided to develop an entirely new, digital business model to support First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts promoting healthier living and fighting childhood obesity. Knowing how much he enjoyed learning to grow his own food and cooking the resulting healthy ingredients with his family, he outlined and diagramed an idea for a mobile application and supporting technology that would be, “By Kids; For Kids” — allowing them to share healthy recipes, cooking training and tips, and other healthy options in an easy, fun, digital format.

Online MOOC Coursera have introduced a range of professional development courses for teachers, and one course ‘Foundations of Virtual Instruction‘ from UC Irvine caught our eye. This five week course introduces K-12 teachers to the history of online learning and instructs on a range of delivery methods for online teaching. According to the blurb, “upon completion of the course, you will understand what it takes to transition from teaching in the classroom to providing virtual instruction.”

Discover how your iPad can be the Teacher's Pet with this infographic from Learning In Hand.

In one of the most comprehensive studies of parents’ views on mobile devices in education, more than 50 percent of parents believe that schools should make more use of mobile devices in education and 32 percent agree that schools should require them in the classroom. These findings are from a new study of how parents perceive mobile learning and devices in and out of the classroom. The Living and Learning with Mobile Devices Study was conducted by Grunwald Associates and the Learning First Alliance and underwritten by AT&T*.

Walter’s Flying Bus, an award-winning storybook app inspired by disabled orphans in Africa, has released a new iPhone version. Executive Producer, Michael Gallagher, sees this mainstream launch – the follow up to its December 2012 debut on the iPad – as their occasion to help rally the global faith community to step up its leadership in orphan care and adoption.