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T.H.E. Journal
March 5, 2010
David Nagel |
National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools The U.S. Department of Education released the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan. The document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum, but to implement some major changes to education itself.   |
T.H.E. Journal
March 3, 2010
David Nagel |
The Future of E-Learning Is More Growth Electronic learning is experiencing unprecedented growth and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 4, 2010
Denise Harrison |
Technology Turns Students into Educators in Distance Learning Program At Stamford HS in Texas, the students also find themselves in the role of teacher as they bring their own part of the world and their own unique knowledge to others through videoconferencing. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 1, 2010
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Was I Wrong on Obama? We have an administration that believes in the power of technology in education, but wants to take a radically different approach to encouraging its use, shifting away from funding through loosely structured grants to having ed tech use integrated across all educational programs. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 1, 2010
David Nagel |
The Myths and Mechanics of Innovation Larry Keeley is bringing his knowledge about innovation to education. |
TIME Europe
March 8, 2010
Tristana Moore |
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homeschoolers These music teachers left Germany because they didn't like what their children were learning in public school -- and because homeschooling is illegal there. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 26, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning's MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 25, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 22, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district. |
National Defense
April 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
Teachers Stand Ready To Advance Science Education President Obama's announcement of the "Educate to Innovate" campaign in November has reinvigorated a decades-long movement to enhance our country's decline in motivating students to excel in science, engineering and math. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 18, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
K-12 School To Be Housed at U Arizona Science and Technology Park The district said Vail Academy and High School of Vail, Arizona will be the first in the nation to be housed at a university research park. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 18, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Making the Connections There's a real disconnect between students' 'real lives' and science. Teachers have to work to bridge that gap. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 16, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Memphis Implements Technology-Based Reading Program The software uses phonemic awareness, colorful visual presentations, engaging songs, and sound identification to introduce readers in pre-kindergarten through third grades to printed letters and letter combinations, as well as letter-sound correspondence. |
Fast Company
March 2010
Dan & Chip Heath |
Business Advice From Van Halen The authors go to eighth grade, Google, and a Van Halen concert to find early warning signals for dropping out of school. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 17, 2010
Patricia Deubel |
Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 16, 2010
David Nagel |
Ed Tech at the Crossroads The Consortium or School Networking prepares for its annual conference on education technology policy and leadership. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 11, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Overcoming the Learning Curve Teacher Tim Zavacki integrates technology into the curriculum by having students create photo essays that correspond with one or more of the five themes that Zavacki teaches in his semester-long course. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 10, 2010
David Nagel |
'E-Rate 2.0' Would Expand Broadband Access, Fund E-Book Pilot E-rate is a federal program that provides schools and libraries with discounts on telecommunications, Internet, and networking technologies and services. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
John K. Waters |
Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Robert J. McGarvey |
You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Sara Stroud |
The Classroom in 3D Districts are 'future proofing' their schools with new projectors built to bring the three-dimensional experience to students. Now they just have to wait for content providers to catch up. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 4, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 3, 2010
Ruth Reynard |
Web 3.0 and Its Relevance for Instruction Web 3.0, however, takes the customization to another level - not only to the personalized Web spaces of current technology but the creation and sustainability of entire cultures based on thoughts, ideas, and perceptions. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 28, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
David Nagel |
EETT Eliminated in 2011 Obama Budget Proposal Despite an overall $3.5 billion increase in education spending, the proposed $3.8 trillion 2011 budget zeroed out the only federal source of funding specifically dedicated to education technology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
The Thrill of Molecules Ann Stock knew that high school students would enjoy getting their hands on molecular models. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Saltus & Cutraro |
No Dozing Off Teenagers from Abraham Lincoln High School, an urban public school in San Francisco, were trying to earning one of the top scores in the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, designed to fuel enthusiasm in synthetic biology -- a merger of biology and engineering. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Kendall Powell |
Kiddie Chemistry On a visit to Marty Burke's lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his mother saw the ball-and-stick models chemists use to build 3-D molecular structures. She pocketed one to teach her students about her son's job as a chemist. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Charles Schmidt |
SMART in More Ways Than One Protein reactions are interesting. But make them glow in the dark, and wow! That's what Max Horlbeck remembers thinking as a high school student in fall 2004. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and poisonous sea snails took center stage at the 2009 Holiday Lectures for high school students. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 28, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
By the Book: Exploring One School's Success with a Technology-Based Reading Program The Web-based Lexia Reading includes three different levels (early reading, primary reading, and strategies for older students) and is designed to help students acquire and improve foundational reading skills. |
Bank Technology News
February 2010
Rebecca Sausner |
Educators Getting Schooled in Cybercrime The FBI and bank regulators have been sounding the alarm about the vulnerability of business banking accounts to spear phishing and malware, and more than a half dozen school districts have been targeted in the last six months. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 27, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education K-12 teachers are a bit more impressed by the cross between the laptop-iPhone hybrid, and told us it could go a long way in helping to connect educators with their students. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 26, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Teach for America To Receive $500,000 Infusion Teach for America, a national nonprofit that specializes in recruiting talented educators for high-need regions and schools, will receive a $500,000 contribution from petroleum giant ExxonMobil, the company announced earlier this month. |
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