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Dr. Kari Stubbs, BrainPOP’s Vice President of 21st Century Learning, is a member of the Voice of the Educator Working Group within SIIA – the Software & Information Industry Association.  The SIIA Vision website, created to assist the education community in understanding technology’s role in the improvement of education, has invited YOU to share your… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP’s Vice President of 21st Century Learning, Dr. Kari Stubbs, is a member of the  Horizon K12 Board.  We’re excited to share that the 2012 edition of the Horizon K12 report was just released this week.  Highlights from the report include predicted trends for mobile devices/apps and game-based learning to play a significant role in… Read the Rest»

  Live Web Q&A with NASA Systems Engineer Tracy Drain Thursday, May 31 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm & 6:30pm Eastern Programs presented by the JASON Project, our newest BrainPOP Partner on GameUp!   Tracy Drain is a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Her projects are out of this world — literally! Tracy… Read the Rest»

We’ve made some interesting additions to our research page on BrainPOP Educators. BrainPOP teamed up with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop to lead a research project, Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom. 500 teachers nationally were surveyed for the study. Over 60 percent of educators surveyed feel that games helped… Read the Rest»

Worry nevermore, BrainPOP now has an  Edgar Allan Poe movie!  We profile the 19th century author’s background and career as a writer, as well as his influence on gothic literature.  Join Tim and Moby as they explore the common themes found among some of his most famous literary works, including “The Tell Tale Heart, “The… Read the Rest»

We’re spotlighting Sports & Fitness and Practical Math this month, so be sure to check out the collection of movies and other resources featured throughout all of May.   The arrival of warmer weather moves kids outdoors, so why not cover some topics they can take outside with them?  Our Soccer, Football, and Fitness movies can… Read the Rest»

Back in January we shared Dr. Kari Stubs’s experience at the  REAL (Recommendations for Education and Advancement of Learning) Commission kickoff meeting in Washington, DC.  The commission consists of 27 leaders in education technology who were responsible for constructing a report on initial research and policy agenda for Digital Promise.  Created by Congress with bipartisan… Read the Rest»

If you missed the chance to venture into the Arctic with IMAX, we’ve got you covered!  In our April 25th webinar, we were joined by filmmaker Shaun MacGillivray and WWF’s polar bear expert, Geoff York, while we discussed the changing Arctic region and IMAX’s newest movie, To The Arctic.  Shaun and Geoff shared some fascinating… Read the Rest»

Gasps of excitement filled the BrainPOP offices this morning as the Space Shuttle (atop a 747) flew past our windows! Everyone was standing by the windows, mouths wide, with the cameras in hand! In celebration of the shuttle’s new home in New York, today we’re providing free access to our Space Flight movie.  Want more… Read the Rest»

Our buddies over at Edsurge are hosting the third #esinstruct tweet chat discussion: “Games and Learning in the Classroom.” We, @BrainPOP, will be there, tweeting some cool news about our GameUp collection, which features free, high quality education games developed by groups including Nobelprize.org. Also in attendance: @GamestarMech, @Playpower, @educationarcade and iCivics and the creators of a game-based science curriculum developed at… Read the Rest»