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Saturday, December 07, 2002
Working With The Right Partner - Converge
...The first step for Vancouver was to engage the entire community in a far-ranging dialogue about a holistic view of education. It was clear from the outset that technology had to play an enabling role, but technology alone was not the solution. "It had to be a vision-driven enterprise," Parsley said. "Whatever technology we acquired had to be attuned to our mission of personalized learning and aligned with the goals of our community." "We knew we needed a partner with the technological expertise and resources to work with us," recalled Tom Hagley, community relations manager for the Vancouver School District. "Plenty of companies wanted to sell us products, but we were looking for more than just a vendor-client relationship. We needed an organization that would invest the time to understand what we wanted to achieve -- who could talk to us about our vision, help us define and refine our goals, and co-develop total, integrated solutions." (0) comments
Intel® Model School Program - Converge
"Without question, the Internet has transformed the way we communicate," said Terry Smithson, Intel America's Education Marketing Manager. By ensuring that today's children have access to the resources, skills and experience they need, Intel's goal is to provide a foundation so that students can become effective leaders in the future. "Through glimpses into the future, we have seen how technology can change the way we live and work. Preparing students to manage and maximize what technology has to offer is a high priority for Intel and education systems worldwide," Smithson said. (0) comments Friday, December 06, 2002
Students build, keep computers in Dell’s TechKnow program - eSchool News staff and wire service reports
With ease, 13-year-old Jeffrey Palacios describes the computer parts in front of him—the floppy-disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, a motherboard, and keyboard. He’s seen them all before. Palacios learned how to build a computer that his entire family now uses at home, as part of a Dell Computer Corp. program to get more poor and minority children interested in technology. (0) comments
Networking Home and School with Thin-Client Technology - Douglas E. Evilsizor, techLEARNING
...Rehoboth [Christian School, New Mexico] has a vision for overcoming these digital divide barriers by connecting underserved students' rural homes directly with the school network through a thin-client system. The school believes that this enhanced home-school connection will enable at-risk students to excel more than ever before. Through the use of old computers and high-powered centralized servers, the network will give students access to programs and applications, to homework assignments, and to ongoing projects at home and will create opportunities for them to collaborate with peers and teachers. The system also will allow parents to communicate easily with staff and check on their students' assignments, grades, and the school calendar. (0) comments Thursday, December 05, 2002
High-Tech High School - SARAH TROTTO, Post-Dispatch
When students at Christian Brothers College high school move to their new campus next fall, school leaders say, they'll sit in classrooms of the future. The $5 million technology plan for the new school in Town and Country includes computers that connect, without wires, to the Internet. The phone system will incorporate the school calendar, and, with a password, student absences can be viewed on the school's Web site. Voice mail will be copied into e-mail, where messages can be heard on audio files. (0) comments
Technology and Students with Special Needs - Barbara Bray, techLEARNING
Assistive technology helps level the field for both learning and physically challenged students, and opens doors for them to the wider world. By learning about assistive devices and other technology available, professional developers can help point to appropriate resources to support student learning and communicating. (0) comments Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Virtual Schooling: Online classrooms multiply, despite questions - School News staff and wire reports
When Tom Franke teaches astronomy on Monday nights, he’s not at his chalkboard at Hopkins High School in Golden Valley, Minn. He does it from the den of his home, using his laptop computer to connect with 13 students statewide. Using his computer’s mouse and microphone, Franke explains a diagram showing how astronomers determine the distance between earth and the stars. Students at home see his drawing appear simultaneously on their computer screens. (0) comments
Judge: District violated rights of web-posting student - From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
A federal judge has ruled that a Michigan school district violated a student’s rights to free speech and due process when it suspended him for posting “intimidation and threats” on the internet, proving once again that schools face a slippery slope when trying to discipline students for web site postings that occur outside of school. (0) comments Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Gender Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (GDSE) Program Solicitation - National Science Foundation
Letter of Intent Due Date(s)(optional): December 20, 2002 - Elementary and Middle School, Informal Education (K-12) Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required): January 23, 2003 - High School, Undergraduate, Teacher and Faculty Development, and Educational Technologies Synopsis of Program: The program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and young women in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by supporting research, demonstration, and dissemination projects that will lead to change in education policy and practice. Typical projects will investigate gender-related differences in learning; gender-related differences in educational experience, interest, and performance; and pedagogical approaches and teaching styles that are gender-neutral or encouraging to female students. (0) comments
Math and Science Partnership Program (MSP) Comprehensive and Targeted Projects - NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
MSP Project Data Registration (strongly encouraged): December 2, 2002 FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE(S) : January 7, 2003 By 5.00 p.m. proposer's local time. Synopsis of Program: The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program supports innovative partnership-driven projects developed to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. As overall student achievement rises, MSP projects are expected to significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. Successful MSP projects will serve as models that can be widely replicated in educational practice to improve the mathematics and science achievement of all the Nation's students. (0) comments Monday, December 02, 2002
Derided Computer Plan Clicks With Maine Students - Elizabeth Mehren, Times Staff Writer
...As school administrators such as Principal Gregory Goodness of the Shapleigh Middle School here lauded his state's effort to "level the academic playing field," the $37-million "learning technology initiative" made Maine the first state to offer universal laptop distribution to an entire grade of middle-schoolers. With the flip of a laptop "on" switch, Goodness and others asserted, students who live in rusty trailers stood on a tech par with classmates whose seaside mansions boast broadband connections and troves of software.... (0) comments
Classroom Web sites: Renovating the Classroom - Pam Lowe, techLearning
Here's a scenario: you're the parent of a fourth-grade child and you're trying to put the evening meal on the table and start a load of clothes in the washer. Your child reminds you about studying together for tomorrow's spelling test. Later, as you are folding laundry, you discover the freshly washed but now wadded and illegible remnants of that spelling list in a jeans' pocket. Now imagine helping your child avoid the resulting stress by stepping into your child's classroom to get the list from the classroom Web site. (0) comments Sunday, December 01, 2002
Mistreat e-baby, and she won't forget - Aaron Kuriloff, Times-Picayune
The baby cries, requires feeding and demands constant attention from its primary caregiver, eighth-grader Lacie Hamilton of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Parish School in Chalmette. But the tears and the hunger aren't real -- they're simulated by electronic sensors. Negligence doesn't hurt the child; it hurts Hamilton's grade-point average. It's not a baby; it's a doll created especially for Hamilton's class project. (0) comments
Public schools to be linked to Net by next summer - Maggie Galehouse, Arizona Republic
All of Arizona's public schools will be connected to the Internet by July 2003, says the state agency in charge of building, repairing and wiring the schools. "We'll be this close," said Ed Boot, executive director of the School Facilities Board, holding up an inch of air between his thumb and forefinger. The massive technology project, which was supposed to be finished three months ago, stalled earlier this year when Qwest, the company hired to provide the wiring and some of the equipment, said it had already spent the $100 million allotted for the job. (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
