Sue Park, featured on today’s Livescribe blog, is a third-grade teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in Northern California. Visit her class page here.

Math can be tricky! Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and the dreaded long division can become confusing jumbles of numbers if students don’t understand core concepts.

Sue Park, a third-grade teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in Lafayette, CA, knows that math certainly doesn’t come easily to all her students. Instead of teaching arithmetic traditionally (lining up numbers on paper and completing a very structured step-by-step process), Sue is encouraging her students to think about math conceptually. Instead of confining each student to a uniform process to solve an arithmetic problem, she encourages each of her students to approach the problem in different ways using mental math. By using the Livescribe smartpen with her students, she has the students record their thought processes while drawing the steps they took in their head to come to the correct answer. …

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Open Colleges has created a great infographic about that invites us to take a closer look at the twenty-first century classroom. As educators know, education is changing at a rapid pace, and new technologies have created wonderful opportunities to better engage students. …

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As we approach the end of summer, teachers everywhere are preparing for the new school year! Here’s our “Dynamic Dictionary” tip, a fun back-to-school idea from Livescribe’s education idea book: …

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Hundreds of attendees stopped by Livescribe’s booth at the annual AHEAD conference last week in New Orleans!  We had both in-booth presentations and on-stage demonstrations and discussions. All seats were full, regardless of venue. …

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The education world is abuzz with news on the flipped classroom — what is it, who’s doing it, does it work?  The adaptive learning company Knewton has released an infographic in order to provide background on the flipped classroom model and why so many teachers are experimenting with it. Check it out and see if you learn something! Also, stay tuned for future stories here on the Livescribe education blog on how educators are using Livescribe to flip their own classrooms. …

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