Nearly 100,000 families qualify for discount Internet service. Cable provider Comcast is offering reduced price on high speed Internet service for low- and moderate-income families. To qualify, the families must have at least one child receiving free or reduced price lunches at school, and the $9.95 per month plan will be locked in for as long as the students continues to receive free or reduced-price lunch, or until they graduate from high school.
How to Screencast Like the Khan Academy. TeachThought provides from free and paid tools to create educational videos like the Khan Academy. Basic tools needed are a video screen recorder, drawing program, and input device such as a graphics tablet. Screencasting makes it easier to build up a lesson plan library and flip the classroom with at home video lessons.
Badgestack is an Open-Source Tool for Gamifying Learning. Badgestack takes note of trends and progressions as individuals learn, gamifying the learning process. The open-sourced software allows “badges earned in BadgeStack-empowered communities to be managed and shared by learners virtually anywhere on the web, for life.”
Parent Co-Reading Survey. In a QuickStudy conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, researchers found that over half of parents who reported owning iPads co-read e-books with their children. Still, e-books have not replaced reading print books together in families with iPads – a majority of the iPad owners report their kids prefer reading print books with them, but parents prefer using e-books while traveling.