JEWISH INTERACTIVE DINNER AT GOOGLE HQ Jewish Interactive hosted their second annual dinner at Google HQ London this week, raising awareness of their work transforming Jewish education with technology. Having created apps that have been downloaded in 850 cities around the world so far, the evening was a celebration of the impact they are havingRead more
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My Menorah was reviewed in the [Hanukkah Edition] Jewish Digital World, 16 December 2014 Jewish Interactive has extended the definition of non-profit to include twenty-first century Jewish education. The South African organization is dedicated to creating apps that teach elementary school children about Judaism, training educators in twenty-first century technology and training students to use tech forRead more
Gideon Ezra (14) from Haberdashers’ Aske School for boys was the winner of the joint Digital competition – Mitzva Connect run by Jewish Interactive and Mitzvah Day. The aim of the competition was to design a digital entry about a Mitzvah project that schools all over the world could do. Chana Kanzen, Director of JewishRead more
Experience is often the best teacher. Over the past year our team has been running iPad and PC workshops with elementary students. Our focus has been on utilizing the best content creation applications available in order to allow the students to make a digital creation to demonstrate their learning of Jewish subject matter. The workshopsRead more
The element of differentiated instruction within a classroom environment is possibly one of the most challenging areas in teaching today. Personalized learning is a necessary goal and ideal, if we had thirty teachers for thirty children in the classroom. But we don’t; teachers are the minority in the school environment. They are expected to plan,Read more
Lisa Friedman blogs about Sukkah Challenge Technology is here to stay. Our children are engaging with digital games and navigating online content on a regular basis. Indeed, our children are being raised in a digital age rich with opportunity, but not without complexities and challenges. Parents and educators must make sense of this world in order to help our childrenRead more
Blog by Rebecca Penina Simon Cross-posted with permission from Climbing the Ladder of Educational Technology. One of the fundamentals of 21st Century Learning is making the content relevant to the students. This entails that the learning having a connection to the real world and more specifically, to their own lives. At the same time, the contentRead more
Jayden (9), from South Africa, visited a home for the elderly with his grandmother. He took photos and created this slideshow to explain why this is an important Mitzvah to do. [clear] Jayden's Mitzvah Project from Jewish InteractiveRead more
Mia S and Ilana S (10) from Mr Flax’s class in Wolfson Hillel Primary School in London, England, created a PowerPoint presentations about Kashrut. [clear] They explained: [quote]We chose kashrut because it is a mitzvah that almost everyone has heard about. Our project is short and snappy as well as involving comics. It also hasRead more
21st Century technology is a tool that we as teachers can use to reach all of our students. Many students have a hard time learning how to analyze text and connecting to the text through words alone. It was very important for me to integrate technology into my classroom in a way that supported theRead more
