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Saturday, March 08, 2003
CoSN launches programs on TCO, data-driven decision making, and more - Cara Branigan, eSchool News
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual conference, held Feb. 26 to 28 in Crystal City, Va., served as a springboard for several new initiatives the group is undertaking on issues such as data-driven decision making, total cost of ownership (TCO), ed-tech advocacy, and emerging technologies. Approximately 500 school leaders, educators, and technology directors attended CoSN’s 8th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference. This year’s theme was “Achievement, Assessment, and Accountability.” (0) comments
Educational Accountability and Its Implications for Technology - John Cradler, Converge
... Furthermore, programs and interventions funded under NCLB must document scientifically proven effectiveness so that such resources will have a high probability of contributing to increased student performance. The US Department of Education recently funded, at $18 million, a "What Works Clearinghouse" to validate effectiveness of studies on educational interventions including those supported with technology. There are several major implications for technology (0) comments Friday, March 07, 2003
Issues About Technology Integration - Barbara Bray, techLearning
The teacher down the hall has five computers in her classroom. Her students are using them everyday. You just received two computers yourself, so you asked this teacher for ideas. She gave you CD-ROMs her students use when they complete their assignments. You asked another teacher, whose students use the Internet, how he manages student research. It turns out his students go on-line to search their topics. When you go to his room to observe, there appears to be no structure to their computer use: students surfing, jumping from topic to topic without direction. Which one is integration? (0) comments
High school students go to surgery via distance education - Associated Press
Students from three South Dakota high schools witnessed live quadruple bypass heart surgery last month but they weren't required to wear scrubs and they didn't leave class. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago invited Emery and Wall high school students to watch the videocast, "Live From the Heart," and ask the surgical staff questions about the operation. Emery school officials also asked Hanson County students to watch the session which was broadcast through the state's distance learning network. "We wanted our students to participate because this is such a unique opportunity," said Shirlyn Christensen, who teaches advanced biology at Emery. "This is the closest we'll come to an actual operation, because there's no way we can put our class into a surgical room." (0) comments Thursday, March 06, 2003
Plagiarism -Diane Forte Barfield, techLearning
Plagiarism, the use of others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information, is not new. The problem has existed as long as there have been teachers and students, but the recent growth of the Internet and the use of its resources by more and more students has made the problem much worse. Studies by anti-plagiarism sites like turnitin.com indicate a serious level of plagiarism, with some experts estimating that a third of all students plagiarize on every assignment without getting caught. Teachers often do not check for plagiarism as carefully as they should, partly because of time limits and partly due to lack of information on strategies and resources. This type of knowledge is not a customary part of the training offered to teachers, and may not be addressed at all unless a teacher seeks information. There are strategies of awareness, prevention, and detection available to educators in the fight against plagiarism. (0) comments
Canadian Teachers' Federation publication on implications of online education
The Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) has just launched a new publication - Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning - which probes the growing phenomenon of e-learning or online education. "This publication is intended to assist teachers to critically examine the claims for online education in the context of their own classrooms and profession", says CTF President Doug Willard. It provides an overview of issues related to equity, socialization, privatization, technology costs and the implications of online education for teachers' work and professionalism. It also offers useful guidelines to inform policy development, classroom practice, collective bargaining and general thinking about technology implementation in our schools. (0) comments Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Justices hear arguments on Net laws - Compiled by Robert MacMillan, Washington Post
The U.S. Supreme Court today will hear arguments on whether the U.S. government can require public schools and libraries to deploy Internet filters to prevent computer users from viewing sexually explicit content. The American Library Association and other groups are challenging the Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, a law that threatens public schools and libraries with the loss of federal technology funding if they fail to install filtering software. (0) comments
Students, teachers, parents learn ways to use the Web with intelligence, caution.- Jason L. Young, Indianapolis Star
The story is a familiar one. A school-age girl meets a man on the Internet, eventually agrees to meet him and, when she does, finds she has put herself in danger. I-Safe, a national nonprofit organization backed by an initial $3.6 million boost from the federal government, is trying to teach boys and girls how to keep from becoming part of that story. (0) comments Tuesday, March 04, 2003
School Laboratory Management Blues - Dominique Cimafranca, Linux Journal
One of the main challenges in running a school computer laboratory is managing the software running on the different PCs allocated for use by students. System administrators face various scenarios, all stemming from the nature of a learning environment in which users all have superuser access to their machines. For example: Essential system programs might be inadvertently or maliciously deleted, thus bringing down an application or the operating system itself; or Installation of new applications might necessitate a change in some system libraries, thereby creating conflict with existing applications; or Classes that require scratch installations of an operating system may disrupt subsequent classes dealing with databases or web servers. (0) comments
Integrating Digital File Formats into Classroom Instruction - Andrea Baker, techLearning
I am a high school library media specialist, and also have experience as an elementary school library media specialist. This is the third year I've been collaborating with classroom teachers and helping plan multimedia projects in which students search, archive, and retrieve digital file formats from the Web to enhance their units of study. I can honestly say this process has been the most exciting and rewarding during my 15-year career in public education. Students from second grade to twelfth-grade can successfully search file formats on-line. (0) comments Monday, March 03, 2003
Mahopac students turn into teachers - DAVID NOVICH , THE JOURNAL NEWS
Mahopac High School 10th-grader Carlos Urreta slides his mouse pointer across a super-sized computer screen as he lectures a class of teachers on the basics of maintaining a Web site. Step by step, he shows them how easy it is to post homework and class presentations, while they stare at their monitors in the computer lab and try to keep up. Every few minutes, he stops class to make sure they're all up to speed and runs over to a teacher who's still trying to figure out what to click. (0) comments
Techtorial in HTML - Lorrie Jackson, Education world
HTML Basics - Reprinted by permission of Lausanne Collegiate School. Step-by-step online tutorial (techtorial) to teach your students (and yourself) HTML. (0) comments Sunday, March 02, 2003
A high-tech roll reversal - Alex Lyda , SanDiego Union-Tribune
Tucked away in a storage room at Emerald Middle School is the teacher's helper of Todayland. With a top speed of 3 mph, "Mobilan One" holds 30 laptops in its belly and roves from class to class with its payload, turning any room into a computer lab. The mobile unit was bought with a $125,000 grant from Hewlett-Packard, one of nine grants the computer company bestowed on schools in Texas, Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, South Carolina and – in this one case – California. The grant is part of Hewlett-Packard's $1.7 million high-achieving schools program, designed to reward schools in lower-income technology-deficient communities for academic success. (0) comments
10Ticks.co.uk
10Ticks is a montage of free mathematics lessons, worksheets, and games based on the UK's National Numeracy Strategy. One of the most popular attractions of the Web site is Pac Math, a fun game that allows children to practice basic arithmetic. Over 200 worksheets discuss topics in algebra, geometrical shapes and spaces, statistics, and more. Several more features are available after registration. For example, teachers can access free sample learning packs with suggested exercises to present in class, and students can keep track of their high scores in the various educational games. Because this is a UK-based site, registration can be somewhat confusing for foreigners. From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2002. http://scout.wisc.edu/ (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
