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Exams where you can Google the answers; is research all it's cracked up to be; plus our new hub for parents of students … all on our online education communities this week

In our latest 'eliminating words' series, we take a look at 5 words to erase from your vocabulary when composing a cover letter.

There's a terrific free tool from the People to People International folks that you can use to connect students with pen pals from other countries.

Doodlecast for Kids is an iPad app that allows kids to draw on a whiteboard and record their voice while drawing; a kid's version for creating animated videos. Doodlecast for Kids has also a gallery of more than 20 story prompts to help struggling students. Students can either pick out one from the prompts or start from scratch.

You can actually use Twitter in the classroom with Bloom's Taxonomy thanks to this awesome table that details nearly two dozen different ways to integrate the pair!

If you're looking for some innovative ways to teach physics, then look no further than your own home. There are plenty of physics lessons just waiting to be discovered.

It's no secret that people are annoying on Facebook, but unfriending may not be the best option. Here are five alternatives.

Teachers and principals are becoming increasingly comfortable using online tools to hone their professional skills, according to a new survey.

There's a big difference between using projects in the classroom versus project-based learning in the classroom. What are those differences, you ask?

ugmented Reality is a concept that has been around for sometime now but with the latest innovations in the digital world, augmented reality has been foregrounded posing serious questions as to its relevancy in education and learning.

A survey reveals teachers to be constantly tired and stressed. Does this sound like you?

Podría pensarse que la afirmación platónica de la existencia de un mundo de perfección en el que las ideas matemáticas existen realmente y su conocimiento a priori (véase Los objetos matemáticos no...

Google is releasing 30 hi-tech balloons in a trial of technology designed to bring the internet to places where people are not yet connected.

The Rhodes Youth Forum will involve more than 100 students who gather together to discuss solving major global challenges in education and beyond.

Top speakers including Ian Livingstone and John Naughton will seek to inspire the ICT curriculum at this one-day event

Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am  also preparing an  ebook about it   which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ? Because I have been busy working on another ebook that I   have just finished and I will share it with you probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Creating presentations and slideshows is one of the needed skills for both teachers and students. Unfortunately many teachers still find it hard to arrange data into a catchy slideshow to share with students

With the extremely large number of apps available for iPads, even those for autism are in abundance, and experts say it’s important to know which are most effective for students with different needs.

This detailed analysis and chart of every single learning theory is worth zooming in and studying.

What do programmable books, multimedia poetry and DIY clubs have in common?

They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators -- in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cult