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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. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Molly Peterson |
KIPP: Learning a Lesson from Big Business The charter school powerhouse uses motivational techniques inspired by America's top corporations, to impressive effect. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 21, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Disruptive Innovation in the Classroom In the book, "Disrupting Class, How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns," co-author Michael Horn puts a positive spin on disruption by examining how it will change the way students learn in the educational environment. |
TIME Europe
January 25, 2010
Barbara Kiviat |
How to Teach Kids About Money Today's conventional wisdom isn't working. What will? |
T.H.E. Journal
January 20, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Video Game Prepares Texas District for State Test Austin Independent School District in Texas is expanding the use of the DimensionM educational video games to seven middle schools and 15 charter schools. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Jeff Chu |
Update: Michelle Rhee vs. the D.C. Teachers' Union After the October layoffs of 266 teachers and staff, the union claimed Rhee used a budget crunch as a pretext for dismissing veteran teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 15, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Vermont District Moves Autism Resources Online Rutland City Public Schools has adopted the AutismPro Web-based system of resources and educational workshops to help increase student achievement while reducing the stress on teachers working with such students. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
John K. Waters |
Up, Up, and Away As far as Ned Zimmerman-Bence is concerned, cloud computing saved his school. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 15, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Indianapolis Public Schools Replace Textbooks with Digital Content 12 schools in the Indianapolis Public Schools system will replace traditional textbooks with digital content from Discovery Education. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 14, 2010
Chris Riedel |
Good Science, Great Technology Will Drive Student Engagement It's up to America's teachers to get the country's youth involved in critical environment issues. But that's not going to happen if teachers aren't delivering the message in a way that engages students, according to Ed Begley Jr. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Building A Better CTO Reaching out to other departments and understanding what they want to accomplish, and helping them understand how technology can help, should be a part of every technology leader's job no matter what the level. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 13, 2010
David Nagel |
What Are the Top-10 Ed Tech Priorities for 2010? Which issues in education technology should drive policymaking in 2010? |
T.H.E. Journal
January 11, 2010
Dan Thompson |
Arkansas Cooperative Brings Online Simulations to Middle Schoolers The Northwest Arkansas Educational Cooperative is bringing online simulation tools, called "Gizmos," to middle schoolers as part of an effort to increase student proficiency in the areas of math and science. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Grayson |
Virtual P.E.? NO SWEAT! Tammy Cowan still chokes up every time she tells the story of how one student's life was forever changed by enrolling in her online gym class. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jeff Weinstock |
Left to Their Own Devices Cienega High in Vail, AZ launched a bring-your-own-laptop program in about a dozen classes. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2, 2010
Charlene O'Hanlon |
All Systems Go The adoption of two cutting edge technologies transforms a fickle wireless network into a fast, efficient engine of learning. |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
Game On for Students in FIRST Robotics The 1531 veteran teams returning to the FIRST Robotics Competition know anything goes when it comes to the rules for the annual game, which change every year. And that's what makes it fun. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 7, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 6, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Launches Student Site The National Aeronautics Space Administration has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to current NASA spacecraft data, potentially taking school science projects to a new level. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 5, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
MIT and FIRST Ally To Encourage STEM Education Careers The cornerstone of the alliance is a pilot program to teach robotics to K-12 students after school. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 5, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
PBS Launches Online Resources for Finance and Economics Teachers PBS Teachers has launched "Access, Analyze, Act," a new collection of digital resources to help primary and secondary school teachers give students an introduction to and overview of what all the "money talk" really means. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 4, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Report Shows Teachers Not Adequately Prepared for Education Reform A new report by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning indicated that in California, where schools are pursuing ambitious education reform, while many teachers are well qualified to take on the demands of such an effort, many more simply are not up to the task. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 4, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Discovery To Host Free Event on Using Technology in Science Education Discovery Education has announced the Discovery Educator Network SCIcon 2010, a free, virtual professional development event demonstrating the many ways educators can integrate digital content and educational technologies into science education. |
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. |
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