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T.H.E. Journal November 19, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
K-12's Stab at the Killer iPhone App Following a path paved by Stanford University, K-12 schools are utilizing the mobile apps to get information out to students, parents, faculty, and employees via mobile devices.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 16, 2009 David Nagel |
Is American Education Neglecting Gifted Children? America's 3 million gifted and talented students are getting the shaft in the vast majority of K-12 schools, according to a new report from the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 16, 2009 David Nagel |
Statewide Support for K-12 Online Learning Grows Twenty-five states now run statewide online initiatives, according to new research from the Center for Digital Education at policy and research firm e.Republic. That's up from 15 states running such initiatives a year ago.  |
TIME Europe November 23, 2009 Harriet Barovick |
Postcard from Minneapolis In a pioneering Minnesota charter school, you don't have to be Chinese to get a head start in Mandarin. Saying ni hao to language immersion in the heartland  |
T.H.E. Journal November 13, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Educator Use of Social Networking Lags Behind Interest Educators suggested some factors inhibiting the growth of this technology in educational settings include privacy concerns, schools/districts that block access to these Web sites, and time pressure.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 David Nagel |
17 Institutions Join IBM Cloud Academy IBM has launched Cloud Academy, an online resource and collaborative forum for campus IT professionals, educators, and researchers in K-12 and higher ed.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Grant To Fund Online Professional Development for Climate Change Education PBS Teacherline has announced it has received a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to provide professional development courses and teaching resources to encourage the teaching of climate change topics in conjunction with science, technology, engineering, and math education.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Survey data shows the variety of ways teachers are using OER to benefit learning, and how that use has evolved over the past three years.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Our Space In the nation's capital, everything is touched by gossip and guesswork. But there's one rumor that merits our attention.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Jennifer Demski |
The WoW Factor For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies - and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Bringing That CanDo Spirit An educator's determined effort to update his school's archaic data systems results in a grassroots programming project that promoted student learning.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 4, 2009 Denise Harrison |
Reinvigorating Videoconferencing at Passaic Valley High School When a high school with a dormant videoconferencing room hires a 20-year videoconferencing veteran, that school can expect big changes in the AV department.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree.  |
HHMI Bulletin November 2009 Terrence Sejnowski |
Robotic Learning We're on the verge of an era where inexpensive robotic teaching machines can augment classroom learning.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 David Nagel |
10.5 Million PreK-12 Students Will Attend Classes Online by 2014 More than 2 million preK-12 students take some form of schooling online right now -- whether attending a virtual school for all their classes or just taking one or more courses via the Internet.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 22, 2009 Denise Harrison |
Middle School Preparations for Live Video Conferencing A class of 8th graders and their teacher will ascend to the summit of New Hampshire's Mount Washington. Unlike those who live and work there, the class won't have to brave the cold at 6,288 feet above sea level. They'll be experiencing Mount Washington with the help of videoconferencing.  |
Information Age October 21, 2009 JJ Robinson |
Young People Showing Interest in Maths, Science Interest in science and maths among young people is on the rise, with many believing the disciplines lead to good career prospects.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
PCI Partners with Social Network To Aid Special Ed Teachers Education social and professional network We Are Teachers (WAT) has partnered with special education resources provider PCI Education to give special education teachers their own forum for interacting and sharing methods and ideas.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2009 David Nagel |
Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 15, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Makes Reading Assessment Software Available for iPod Touch Teachers can turn the Apple iPod Touch into a portable reading assessment tool with the help of software now available for the device from Pearson.  |
Fast Company November 2009 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones? Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies to help kids conquer math. Are smartphone-learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick?  |
T.H.E. Journal October 14, 2009 David Nagel |
Study: Games, Video Improve Preschooler Literacy A new study has shown that educational videos and interactive games can have a positive impact on preschooler literacy when incorporated into the curriculum in a classroom setting.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 13, 2009 Dan Thompson |
K-12 Grant To Award Classroom Clickers The Turning Foundation, Study Island, and Performance Matters have launched a new grant to award teachers with student response systems, also knows as classroom clickers.  |
National Defense November 2009 Cynthia D. Miller |
Institute Strives for National STEM Education Network How do we create our next generation of scientists and engineers? It takes an individual who has classroom experience, vision for the future and sheer determination to find it.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 6, 2009 David Nagel |
iNACOL Publishes Standards for K-12 Online Programs The K-12 research and advocacy association iNACOL has published the first-ever standards for K-12 online education programs, National Standards for Quality Online Programs.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Sara Stroud |
Fight Fire With Fire School districts are turning the tables against cyberbullies, using technology to flush out and crack down on online harassment.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 6, 2009 David Nagel |
i3 To Fund 'Cutting Edge' School Reforms The program is designed to encourage and reward innovations in education that close achievement gaps, improve proficiency levels, improve graduation rates, or work to recruit and retain high-quality teachers and principals.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Chile Turns to Social Media To Expand English Literacy The federal government of Chile has chosen social media service Mingoville.com to provide the tools the nation's students will need to achieve fluency in English.  |
HHMI Bulletin August 2009 Nancy Volkers |
The E Word Teaching evolution in high school often means a soft sell.  |
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