Presentations and Videos:
LogTera Updates:
- 01/14/2015: LogTera wins 2014 Best Educational App AwardsLogTera Grade 2 and Grade 3 Math apps won the ‘Best Educational App 2014’ awards by Balefire Labs. Balefire Lab reviewed more than 2000 educational apps based on their rigorous, scientifically-validated criteria to chose the winners.
- 05/21/2014: LogTera to participate in ISTE 2013
Come visit us at ISTE 2014 in Atlanta. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in advancing excellence in learning and teaching through the innovative and effective uses of technology in PK–12 and teacher education. LogTera is proud to participate in the ISTE Conference and Expo, which is the premier forum for thought leadership, learning, and exchange of ideas in the field of education technology. The ISTE event attracts upwards of 18,000 attendees and industry representatives — including teachers, technology coordinators, administrators, library media specialists, teacher educators and policy makers.
(https://www.isteconference.org/2014/)
- 06/05/2014: LogTera Announces Launch of New Grade 4 Math Workbook for Children
San Jose, CA, May 6, 2014 -- LogTera, an online education software company based in San Jose, California, announced the launch of LogTera Grade 4 Math Workbook, a mobile application product devoted to providing supplementary educational practice with learning games for children from five to eleven years old. LogTera Grade 4 Workbook features an outstanding selection of mathematics education worksheets that develop and enhance core math skills in children. The Grade 4 Math Workbook covers Common Core State Standards aligned topics in Multiplication, Division, Decimals, Fractions, with real world word problems.
- 05/16/2014: LogTera participates at TiEcon 2014
LogTera participated in TiEcon 2014 – the largest global conference focused around entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The conference, which is highly regarded worldwide for ideas and entrepreneurship, attracted 4500 technology professionals from over 50 countries. Over a two-day period, TiEcon focus was on the hottest areas of tech innovation.
- 05/03/2014: Working with special needs children at Ed Rev 2014
- 03/20/2014: Teachers love LogTera interactive Grade 1-3 Math software at CUE 2014
LogTera participated in the CUE 2014 conference and got a warm reception from the Teachers who loved the Common Core Aligned Grade 1-3 Math applications from LogTera. The CUE Conference is the largest and oldest education technology conference in California, and among the largest in the United States.
- 10/24/2013: LogTera at the Times Square, New York
- 10/24/2013: LogTera launches Grade 1 Math
Useful Links and Resources
- Common Core State
Standards – Math
- Next Generation Science
Standards
- Standards Relationships and Convergence (Stanford University)
- The Nation’s Report Card (NAEP)
- Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
- Smarter Balanced
Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced)
- Google for Education
- Ibis Capital Global
e-Learning Review (pdf)
- Clayton Christensen
Institute for Disruptive Innovation – Education
- Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
- Mobile Edugame 2014 (Ambient Insight)
EdTech News
- Computerized Common Core Testing Poses Challenge for Schools
-
Quelling the Controversy Over Technology and Student Testing
- Teachers Hit The Common
Core Wall – NPR
- The Common Core FAQ –
NPR
- Credentials that work –
by Sebastian Thurn - (Highlights need for new education models)
- The world at work: Jobs,
pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people – McKinsey