Ticketmaster aims to stop touts with first 100 percent digitally ticketed UK show
TICKETMASTER will be issuing only digital tickets for an event in the UK for the first time to stop fans being ripped off on secondary resale sites. All tickets to DJ and electronica producer Four Tet’s four all-night shows at Brixton Academy between October 10 and 13 will be tied to fans’ mobile phones. Daily […]
Superstar Ed Sheeran BANS tickets from VIAGOGO as war on ticket touts finally gets real
ED Sheeran has insisted that the only people who will lose out in his war against secondary ticket-selling sites are touts – not his fans. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Iron Maiden winning in battle against touts with pioneering PAPERLESS tickets
HEAVY Metal legends Iron Maiden have delivered a devastating blow to ticket touts and forgers with their pioneering paperless ticketing system for their impending UK tour. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Obama Administration Touts Early Childhood Ed Expansion
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Today, hundreds of thousands more US children have access to high-quality early learning programs than when the Obama administration began. It was 2013 when President Obama announced his Preschool for All proposal that would establish a state-federal coalition to provide quality preschool for every four-year-old from low- and moderate-income households. After the initiative […]
Horizon Report Touts Collaborative, Project-Based Learning
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) In a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking, a new report examines emerging technologies and the potential impact they will have when used in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in schools. Considered to be the world’s longest-running look into emerging technology trends in education, the NMC Horizon […]
Fuel Education’s Online, Blended Learning Touts Success
(Photo: Creative Commons) A new report released by Fuel Education takes a closer look at the outcomes and benefits of the use of blended and online learning programs that involve Fuel Education curriculum. For the report, “Outcomes of Blended and Online Learning Programs in Schools Using Fuel Education Curriculum,” Evergreen Education Group compiled case studies for a total […]
Stanford Report Touts Benefits of Visual Element to Math Education
(Photo: Akash Kataruka, Creative Commons) Researchers at Stanford University have released a report titled “Seeing As Understanding: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for our Brain and Learning” that aims to dispel the notion that visual math, such as pictures, finger-counting, and diagrams, are only for lower-level tasks, and that higher-level math deals exclusively in symbols, notations, and words. […]