Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When Harbor Beach High School was built ...

That student comment was one of many positive reviews of Del Mar Union School District’s new modern classroom prototypes. Embracing an open floor plan design, the entire room is used for learning with ...

Less than one year ago, we launched a new initiative in teacher professional development: The Modern Classrooms Project. As teachers at a Title I high school in the District of Columbia, we had ...

This summer we brought eight teachers, who teach eight different courses, together for a week of self-directed professional development (PD). Would they survive to tell the tale? For educators like us ...

Want to hear the full panel? Check out the latest episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast here. The classroom. Since the 1950s, the setup of your average second, sixth or tenth grade classroom hasn’t ...

Over the years, homework has shifted from reinforcing classroom lessons to delivering the lessons themselves. Teachers now assign videos, readings, and problem sets for students to tackle ...

Students engage in discussion using the white boards provided in the active learning classroom. This allows them to effectively share ideas with each other and the teacher. (Photo courtesy of Julia ...

The aim of technology may be to make processes more efficient and to expand our horizons, but unless used appropriately, it can also make life unnecessarily complicated. In the classroom, teachers are ...