Daylene LongMay 16, 20191 minCan ESSA Funding Help us Get Closer to STEM Equity?On a good day, I'm idealistic, but every day I believe that it is realistic to provide quality STEM education for ALL teachers and studen...
Daylene LongJan 16, 20191 minEmerging Technology in STEM EducationVirtual Reality? Coding? Biotechnology? Over 2,400 STEM educators share their thoughts in the National Survey on STEAM Education: Emergin...
Daylene LongSep 3, 20182 minConnecting Global Concerns to School, Community, and IndustryThis past spring, in my hometown of Beaverton (the NikeTown suburb of Portland, Oregon), I attended a STEM presentation called the Connec...
Daylene LongJun 22, 20142 minPromising Practices for Student LearningIt’s been three years since our first report on mobile technology. And, wow, have we seen this market surge. Today, educators are more sa...
Daylene LongJan 13, 20131 minWho buys apps for education?Teachers who love good technology will always tell their friends; it’s a timeless tale. About a year ago, I asked a teacher friend how sh...
Daylene LongDec 9, 20122 minAre schools adopting tablets on a 1:1 basis?“An iPad is like a toothbrush. You could share it, but why would you want to?” There seems to be a Utopian vision that one day all studen...
Daylene LongNov 14, 20122 minDo Educators Use Education Volume Purchasing Through iTunes?In our last blog post we looked at the question: Do educators expect all apps to be free? Luckily, we discovered that educators value sof...
Daylene LongSep 5, 20122 minShould All Apps Be Free for Education?“Apps should be free”, my friend, a chief technology officer at a local school, recently told me. “If we were to get great apps for littl...
Daylene LongJun 25, 20121 min2012 National Survey on Mobile Technology for K-12 Education, Corporate and Non-Profit EditionWondering which tablets are being adopted for student instruction in K-12 education or which apps educators find most useful? This new re...
Daylene LongApr 4, 20122 min2012 National Survey on STEM Education–Corporate and Non-Profit Edition“The high level view of the STEM landscape in the National Survey on STEM echoes a lot of what we’re seeing as developers, but also bring...
Daylene LongApr 3, 20121 minWho’s Funding STEM?Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about STEM education. But have you ever wondered, “Who’s funding it?” According to a...