Touch boards are driving group learning to a new level of relevance and engagement. The latest touch displays allow all students – including those with disabilities – to become more engaged with the curriculum being taught. These interactive boards are intuitive technologies that allow students to experience touch, gestures, and engagement with the content, the learning, and each other in new ways.

Paget Hetherington, Mimio VP of Marketing, Talks About ISTE and Exciting New Products from Mimio

I’m so impressed with Mimio’s development team – a dedicated and passionate group of software and hardware engineers. What they have managed to pull off in terms of our next batch of releases is simply just amazing. If you’re going to be at the ISTE trade show in Atlanta this weekend, you have to stop by our booth #1028 to check out our new products. You’ll see how we continue to evolve and invent in this ever-changing world of educational technology.

Want to learn how to really collaborate?

Join Mimio for the webinar, Classroom Collaboration with Mimio presented by High School Social Studies Teacher Paul Gigliotti. 

Students must learn collaboration skills to be successful in school and in their lives. With MimioStudio™ software and the MimioMobile™ app for Apple and Android mobile devices, educators now have fabulous new tools to help students learn how to work together. This webinar will provide tips and suggestions for using the many features of these updated tools to facilitate and encourage collaboration in your classroom. You will also be introduced to some of the new collaboration lessons and activities that are available at no charge on mimioconnect.com. Register Now. >>

Mobile devices have a deep and positive impact on student learning, but are still in the early adoption stage.

Survey conducted by MDR’s EdNET Insights on behalf of Mimio

Mobile devices are well on their way to becoming an integral part of K-12 instruction, and they are having a noticeably positive impact on students’ learning experiences. These are the major findings from a recent survey conducted by MDR’s EdNET Insight service on behalf of Mimio. This was the third annual survey authorized by Mimio to gain a deeper understanding of educators’ and students’ experience and needs within the interactive classroom.

While mobile devices are best known for their use in 1:1 or BYOD programs, the school administrators, technology directors, and coordinators who were the survey’s targeted respondents revealed that mobile learning is not at all restricted to such environments.

Some 75 percent of respondents indicated that their districts or schools were purchasing the devices for use by select grade levels or in specific content areas, rather than the more universal approaches of 1:1 implementation and BYOD programs.

Want to easily integrate technology into your lessons?

Join us online for the webinar, Seamless Integration of Curriculum and Technology presented by High School Math Teacher Sarah Coughlin. 

From software to hardware, to an online teaching community packed with free lessons, Mimio solutions can help you create an exciting interactive learning environment. In this webinar, learn how curriculum and technology work together seamlessly in the Mimio classroom. Get the latest on new Mimio products that work with Apple and Android mobile devices to create a more engaging and collaborative learning environment. Register Now. >>

Want to learn how to really collaborate?

Join Mimio for the webinar, Classroom Collaboration with Mimio presented by High School Social Studies Teacher Paul Gigliotti. 

Students must learn collaboration skills to be successful in school and in their lives. With MimioStudio™ software and the MimioMobile™ app for Apple and Android mobile devices, educators now have fabulous new tools to help students learn how to work together. This webinar will provide tips and suggestions for using the many features of these updated tools to facilitate and encourage collaboration in your classroom. You will also be introduced to some of the new collaboration lessons and activities that are available at no charge on mimioconnect.com. Register Now. >>

Want to easily integrate technology into your lessons?

Join us online for the webinar, Seamless Integration of Curriculum and Technology presented by High School Math Teacher Sarah Coughlin. 

From software to hardware, to an online teaching community packed with free lessons, Mimio solutions can help you create an exciting interactive learning environment. In this webinar, learn how curriculum and technology work together seamlessly in the Mimio classroom. Get the latest on new Mimio products that work with Apple and Android mobile devices to create a more engaging and collaborative learning environment. Register Now. >>

Everyone is going mobile, but what does that really mean?

As mobile devices increasingly become a part of our everyday lives, they are slowly but surely becoming a key part of our classrooms. While some schools continue to ban cell phones, others are embracing them – as well as other kinds of mobile devices. This infographic provides up-to-date statistics on the use of mobile devices in education, and the numbers may surprise you. Check out how students, teachers, and even parents are going mobile.

Mimio is pleased to offer Collaborate to the Core, an excellent guide to a variety of techniques and suggestions for creating collaborative learning in your classrooms. In addition, the guide offers a number of engaging collaborative lessons, organized by grade levels K-2, 3-5, and 6-12 in the following subject areas: math, language arts, science, and social studies. All lessons meet the Common Core State Standards, include tips, and can be used with or without educational technology.

K-2 students will enjoy working in pairs to practice translating a written time to the face of a clock, and working in small groups to distinguish between short and long vowel sounds. You can check their understanding of the frog life cycle after dividing the class into groups tasked with reaching their own conclusions about the stages of the cycle. And they can break into small groups to practice recognizing the difference between a fact and an opinion, as they discuss sentences related to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creating a collaborative environment in classrooms is a key method of empowering students to live and thrive in the real world. Discussion, cooperation, open-mindedness, a variety of viewpoints, higher-order thinking skills, different curricular areas, disagreement, and debate are all elements that help students learn how to collaborate with others and thus become better educated individuals.

But how do educators incorporate collaborative learning models into their instruction? Start by setting expectations for your students, clearly explaining the process, and following these five collaboration strategies.