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T.H.E. Journal November 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Is a bandwidth crisis approaching?  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Students' browsing experiences are impacted by a school's available internet bandwidth.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Surveys of district-level technology directors show that technology budgets haven't changed significantly in recent years, except in the area of tech support. Here is a breakdown.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 |
Extracurricular: For Technologists Who do Their Homework What are the hottest education technologies? The new report "America's Digital Schools 2006: A Five-Year Forecast" predicts which tools will make the largest gains over the next five years.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Interactive whiteboards are quickly gaining a presence in US schools. District technology directors tell why.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For technologists who do their homework Sixty-two percent of school districts report the use of a learning management system. Here's the who, why, and how.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Large-district (4,000-plus students) technology coordinators speak out on their experiences with a fundamental component of the 21st-century school system: internet access.  |
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For technologists who do their homework Professional development and technology spending go hand in hand, as teachers have to be trained in each new tool a district acquires. Tech directors expect spending on both ends to rise significantly in the next five years.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework According to surveyed school districts, the use of online assessment to track students' progress and performance is surprisingly widespread.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Though stationary units are most common, the prominent use of mobile computing devices in schools indicates the rise in 1-to-1 implementations.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 |
Extracurricular: For Administrators Who do Their Homework Districts continue to aspire to a 1-to-1 student-to-computer ratio. How many have achieved it?  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2006 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Professional development is crucial to the implementation of a 1-to-1 computing program. Yet roughly a third of surveyed curriculum directors doubt their district's ability to support a ubiquitous rollout.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Here is a look at which learning management systems providers technology directors prefer, and to what ends the systems are most commonly used.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework What is most important to you in a learning management system?  |
T.H.E. Journal January 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Despite talk that school districts are dropping their 1-to-1 computing programs, a new survey shows a slight increase in implementation.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Schools report on internet connections and interruptions of access.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework According to district superintendents, influence shifts among instructional leaders as various facets of technology and curriculum policies are put in place.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework The expectations of technology directors who have yet to implement 1-to-1 computing programs positively reflect the experiences of tech directors who have 1-to-1 plans already established.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Tech directors are forecasting substantial increases in software spending over the next five years, including a more than 70 percent jump in spending on core curriculum software.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For technologists who do their homework How closely do the following two scenarios describe your district's experiences with 1-to-1 computing implementations?  |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Shape, Throttle, and Roll Bandwidth management technology enables school districts to keep their networks running free and easy.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
For Technologists Who do Their Homework In the next five years, expect to see Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista, to explode in use in public schools and open source platforms to get traction in schools with smaller budgets.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2006 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework Online learning is opening up new academic avenues to both teachers and students.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2006 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework The appeal of online learning as an educational alternative is increasing.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Middle Schools : Strike Up the Bandwidth Are districts suitably prepared for the ever-increasing need for faster connectivity in our schools?  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework A survey of superintendents shows where your tax dollars are going.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework The purchase of a mobile student-computing device requires districts to consider several factors, from warranty options to battery life.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf |
Spread the Word: Ed Tech Matters With the future - and present - of ed tech funding at risk, it's imperative to inform legislators about the impact of technology on student achievement.  |
Reason April 2006 Lisa Snell |
Meet Arlene Ackerman An interview with San Francisco's superintendent of schools on the implementation and impact of the weighted student formula as well as the future of school choice in that city.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Service Disagreement A lack of precedence on how to charge for ongoing support for technology purchases has created an unhealthy divide between vendors and educators.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 |
One Package for Security and Administration  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 |
CoSN Launches Site to Combat Cyber Security Threats The site was developed to include self-evaluation tools, best practices and professional development workshops geared toward two audiences: superintendents/policymakers and school technology directors.  |
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district.  |
Reason April 2006 Lisa Snell |
The Agony of American Education How per-student funding can revolutionize public schools in the U.S.  |
Entrepreneur April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Dave Brittain |
My Database Will Call Your Database, But Can They Talk? Currently, we face a national dilemma in how to promote a seamless technology system for tracking and reporting on our students' educational histories, achievements and needs.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Martinez & Umekubo |
Keeping Tech Support In Step With Technology Maintaining a thriving, leading-edge learning environment requires a reliable base of tech support. But building that base is no easy task.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Jensen & Fletcher |
Preemption, Not Reaction Districts must take steps to ward off threats to school security, rather than responding to them once they occur, when it may already be too late.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Nodine & Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 4: Using Data to Improve Instruction Connecting the dots: how to use data to get from districtwide goal-setting to school-level performance.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Timothy D. Snyder |
Colorado: Unlimited Learning With its many small and remote districts, Colorado is using online learning to educate kids in every nook and cranny in the state.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2006 |
Content Filtering: A Solution That Works Filtering internet content not only protects children from inappropriate content, but also frees up bandwidth and saves schools money.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Follow the Money- Carefully The stimulus package provides billions of dollars in new funding. Schools and states need a plan to pursue it.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Cheryl Lemke |
Measuring Progress With Technology in Schools Today's education policymakers are seeing technology through the lens of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which is creating expectations for a "learning return" on all technology investments.  |
HBS Working Knowledge December 19, 2005 Mallory Stark |
Public Education Goes to School Can the art and science of business management help public schools improve student performance? Several Harvard professors discuss how business and education might work together on the leadership and management challenges facing the education sector.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Lan Nugen |
Virginia: When Technology Met Accountability Virginia's decision to link the two programs has benefited the state's entire educational system.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 John K. Waters |
How Geek Became Chic With budgets and staff stretched thin, schools are turning tech-savvy students into technology leaders and a popular, important source of IT support.  |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Setting Standards in Schools SchoolNet, an ASP offering Internet solutions for performance-driven schools, districts and states, is supplying tools to meet education leaders' need to utilize their abundance of data...  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2004 |
EduTrack and SumIt To help meet the demands of No Child Left Behind, Skyward Inc. has launched EduTrack and SumIt systems to help effectively manage a district's student assessment, state-prescribed instructional information, and data analysis.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Kathleen Webb |
Decision-Support System Helps Utah Improve Its Student Achievement The Utah State Office of Education use Profiling Educational Technology Integration to advance technology programs and improve student achievement.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Rama Ramaswami |
Make It Stretch As technology funding dwindles, districts must use the resources they do have to maximum advantage.  |