The Edinburgh Academy is an independent day school in the heart of central Scotland. They are a 1:1 iPad school and are in their fourth academic year of their deployment project. This content has been re-posted with permission by Martin Willis, Apple Distinguished Educator, Showbie Champion, and Head of e-Learning at The Edinburgh Academy, who’s been leading…
Found a great new app for your classroom but parent participation is low? Try these tips to get parents engaged. You’ve deployed a new app in your classroom and students are logging on, posting assignments, reading your feedback, and loving the new platform. It all seems to be going great, except for one problem. You’re…
Corey Knight is a teacher at New Haven Middle School in Indiana, United States, and wrote a post on his blog Classroom Tech Made Simple assessing Showbie and the benefits it’s bringing to his classroom. Read his review of Showbie below! The goal of our app reviews are to give you easy actionable reviews of…
The 4Cs (communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity) are some of the most important skills students need to learn. They are also some of the most challenging skills to teach. While teachers can model the 4Cs in the classroom, they know that any skill we want students to understand and master requires that students take…
“How do you spell observation?” my 9-year-old nephew asked me recently while typing a message on his tablet. As a technical writer who moonlights as a writing teacher, I jumped at the chance to help him with his spelling question. A little too excitedly I asked, “How do you think you spell it?” He began…
Want to start the new school year right? Trainer Joe Moretti gives his 6 essential workflow tips for optimizing Showbie in your classroom, including quick ways to get to know your students, streamlining communication and more!
