Technology Squared

With just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. That's the message from Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours.

Skills used for programming could also be used for a wide range of careers, such as constructing meteorological simulations, making financial predictions, or creating personalized online learning curricula.

Children's literature about the world and its cultures compels young minds to investigate ways of life and thinking that can be different—or quite similar—to their own. It offers important perspectives as students build basic literacy skills.

Find education news, teaching strategies, lesson plans, activity ideas and more on the WeAreTeachers blog. Featuring posts by guest bloggers and teachers as well as WeAreTeachers editors.

Planning a meeting can be a hassle. Check out these tools to help ease your scheduling complication woes.

We're very excited about the prospect of using Google Glass in education. One instructor is already recording some useful STEM videos you should check out!

What is the relationship between project-based learning and blended learning? This article takes a look, and offers 11 specific steps for effective PBL planning.

Looking to create a cool animation? Check out these five easy-to-use tools for making your own animated logos, title sequences and personalized cartoons.

From Virtual Classrooms to Moodle MOOCs and Google Docs,you can be sure that this web education tool box is brimming with complete solutions for teaching online.

Parents can help to enhance their child’s learning process, and help their children develop skills and a learning style that they will use for a lifetime.

Ironically, there's one piece of Web history that can't be found online: the very first page. Now, a team at the lab where the World Wide Web was born is on a hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that might hold copies of the missing files.

Fewer pupils think math is difficult in Finland. Interestingly, math textbooks, which are written by teachers, are only a fraction of the size of similar textbooks in the U.S.

The stars are finally aligning for a dramatic shift in terms of education technology. Dr. Jeff Borden weighs in on why right now matters.

As with any behavior involving kids, mistakes will be made with online behavior -- and that’s a vital part of the learning process.

The most popular website at my school is Minecraft--hands down, starting in 1st grade (I'm amazed parents let six-year-olds use this sometimes violent game, but they do and students do and the mani...

Online photo editors not only offer a quick and effective way for people to edit their images but it also allows the everyday person to take their photos one step further without having the technical knowhow that a photographer would.

Social media posts and videos are cropping up in academic publications more and more. This chart shows just how to cite social media with ease.