With Magic Makers, Claude Terosier teaches coding to kids – and their teachers!
Claude Terosier, an engineer by training, is the founder of Magic Makers, a startup that organises creative programming workshops for children. Since 2014, over 2,000 children have familiarised...
View ArticleTablets in schools: “Teaching and technology should be in perfect harmony”
How to create a stimulating working environment with digital? What are the best practices for using tablets in the classroom? On Friday 11 March 2016, at the Educatec-Educatice education &...
View ArticleIntroducing a special needs unit 3.0 with Baptiste Melgarejo
Baptiste Melgarejo is a specialist teacher at a professional unité localisée pour l’inclusion scolaire (ULIS), (a dedicated unit within schools for students with learning difficulties or communication...
View ArticleGénération Numérique: Schoolchildren aren’t aware of Internet risks
“There are far more digital innocents than digital natives.” For Olivier Le Deuff, a lecturer at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, the idea of digital_natives is a myth, and using digital tools,...
View ArticleThe French National Education system starts using Snapchat
Who said the French Ministry of Education was a bunch of dinosaurs? After Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and even Vine, it’s now using Snapchat to help secondary...
View ArticleWhy charters schools in Texas are using videoconferencing
Videoconferencing is becoming increasingly widespread in the education sector. Michael Magers, who’s in charge of a number of charter schools (independently-run schools which receive government...
View ArticleBruno Devauchelle: “Ordinary” use of digital is what drives changes in...
“How to make the advent of digital in schools real and widespread?” This is what Bruno Grossi, Executive Director of Econocom Group, asked in an Op-ed back in October 2014. But could the solution for...
View ArticleArnaud Lecuyer: “Digital shakes up the teacher’s position”
Why and how to implement digital in classrooms? How can new technologies change the teacher’s role? How to guide teachers through this change? A digital enthusiast, Arnaud Lecuyer has several roles:...
View ArticleAt a school in Reims, iPads are used for an “astonishing range” of...
The Saint-Michel school group Reims, comprises a kindergarten, a primary school, a secondary junior, a secondary senior school and a technical college, and a vocational training centre. At the...
View ArticleDigital schools: Econocom equips five secondary junior schools in Indre
In the Indre department in central France, five secondary junior schools applied to join the digital classroom programme launched by François Hollande in May 2015 as part of the French government’s...
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