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There were choruses of cheers when YouTube announced the official launch of its YouTube for Schools feature today. Google began piloting the program earlier this fall, offering a way for schools to access video content deemed "educational" via a special portal. Now any school can sign up for YouTube for...

Part of the Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011 series When President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech in January 2011, he spoke of the importance of science and technology research and education to the U.S. -- past, present, and future: Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat...

The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been...

2011 Retrospectives I'm a little over halfway through my 2011 Ed-Tech Trends series. But if you're looking for other year-in-review posts, check out Apple's 2011 Rewind which lists the best (bestselling and most beloved by Apple) iOS apps. Among those recognized in the education category, the language-learning app MindSnacks and...

A little over a year ago, Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin decided to form a tech startup. Although they both had a strong business backgrounds (both graduated from Northwestern University), neither could code. Rather than look for a technical co-founder or hire programmers, the two opted to learn to program....

Part 6 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends series Khan Academy wasn't new in 2011, but oh man, was it news. Sal Khan has been creating his own videos to teach math and science for seven years now, but the mainstream media discovered Khan Academy in a big way this...

On Monday, The Washington Post ran a story of a local school board member who took his state's version of the 10th grade standardized tests -- one in math and one in reading. Here's how the author describes him: "By any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. His now-grown...

Part 5 of my year-end series. As far as ed-tech trends go, 2011 was not the year of the e-textbook. Hooray E-Books True, e-books in general have racked up record sales this year, outselling print for the first time, not just at Amazon but across the entire industry. 2011 was...