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T.H.E. Journal November 2004 Susan Amirian |
Putting Tablet PCs to the Test A look at how three different table PCs faired in the classroom: HP Compaq TC1100... ViewSonic V1250S... Motion Computing's M1400...  |
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Jacob Milner |
Tablet PCs: The Write Approach Move over, laptops. As 1-to-1 computing becomes the goal on K-12 campuses, school districts are turning to this newer, pen-based technology.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Annamaria DiGiorgio |
Florida School Participates in Tablet PC Pilot Program The versatile tablet PC made its way into the hands and backpacks of seventh-graders at Ocoee Middle School in Orange County, Fla., this fall in a first-ever pilot program designed to test the effectiveness of the tablet PC combined with a Web-based curriculum.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 David Schroeder |
Tablet PCs and Collaboration Software Improve Classroom Engagement at Cabrillo High School The pen-enabled technology inherent in video tablets and tablet PCs provides the perfect solution for empowering students to participate in less exciting subjects like mathematics.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.  |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 Anya Kamenetz |
News Corp. Introduces A New Kind Of Interactivity To The Classroom Amplify is two things: the first touch-screen tablet designed for the educational market and a tablet-based curriculum.  |
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 December 3, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer |
Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2004 Gretchen Pienta |
High-Tech Note Taking Tablet PCs may be the answer for commercial real estate professionals who are fed up with manipulating their bulky laptops. Compare the latest tablet PCs using the web links at the end of this article.  |
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 March 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
A Quicker Clicker When loaded with virtual clicker software, any device takes on the function of a student response system.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
Qwizdom Student Response System by Qwizdom Qwizdom has announced the release of its Q7 Presenter Tablet, a wireless tablet that uses radio-frequency technology to interact with the Qwizdom Student Response System.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.  |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.  |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.  |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out?  |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward.  |
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 April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed.  |
BusinessWeek June 27, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
A Tablet Ready For Prime Time The IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet is light and can go almost a full workday on a single charge.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities.  |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web.  |
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 November 2005 Dave Berque |
Is the Pen Mightier Than the Mouse? Recent technology developments confirm that pentop computing is set to make its mark in K-12 education.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
The Vod Couple High school chemistry teachers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann have overturned conventional classroom instruction by using video podcasts to form the root of a new learning model.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 |
Tablet PCs Transform N.D. University Into a High-Tech School One of only four universities nationwide to employ tablet PCs on campus, Mayville has distributed M275s to more than 750 full-time students and current faculty members.  |
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?  |
National Defense August 2010 Cynthia D. Miller |
Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields.  |
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.  |
InternetNews April 26, 2011 |
Google Puts $6 Million Into Open Source Summer Google pushes forward on its Summer of Code effort, helping over a thousand students and 175 open source projects.  |
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 September 2006 Catherine Wambach |
Smart Classroom: From Revolutionary to Evolutionary: 10 Years of 1-to-1 Computing Laptop initiatives are now a decade old. Once a point of controversy, they have become the cornerstone of every district's technology hopes.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online  |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Enter the iPad (or not?) iPads and the competing PCs set to follow it into the marketplace represent a new student-computing platform that K-12 school districts have already begun to explore in pilot programs.  |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used.  |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Waiting for More Smart Software Microsoft is hobbling the Tablet PC by aiming at the wrong crowd. Yet it remains one of the company's most interesting experiments.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2006 |
District-Vendor Partnerships Private School Strives for 1-to-1 Tablet PC Environment... ETS, Taskstream Deliver Online PD Management System... Kansas Offers Educators Online Test-Creation Tool... etc.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts.  |
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.  |