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Saturday, June 12, 2004
FCC Won't Let Schools Sell Airwaves - Yuki Noguchi, Tech News World
"I think this is a victory for schools and university and church groups, and for technology, too," said Commissioner Michael J. Copps, who opposed sale of the airwaves. "This is a part of the spectrum that is specifically preserved for educational use." The Federal Communications Commission decided yesterday not to allow educational institutions to sell their spectrum licenses, but the agency will allow them to continue leasing the valuable airwaves for commercial use, and it will move users around to reduce interference. The decision will benefit Nextel Communications Inc., which holds neighboring spectrum, and wireless start-ups eager to lease space for phone calls and high-speed Internet traffic. In adopting the new rules, the FCC said it was promoting more efficient, shared use of a valuable public resource for both commercial and public-interest purposes. (0) comments
IBM computer engineer volunteers in classrooms - Lisa Rathke, Associated Press
In a tie-dyed lab coat, John Cohn zaps a dill pickle, sends purple jolts of electricity crackling into the air and makes a fourth grader's hair stand on end. All for the love of science. The 45-year-old IBM computer engineer has been performing in classrooms around Vermont and in other states for nearly 12 years to get kids excited about science. "I love to share this," the gray-haired and bearded executive says. "It's not that I want to go out and make every student a scientist. If you can get people to appreciate the beauty or wonder of it." (0) comments Friday, June 11, 2004
British National Gallery relaunches website for primary teachers - Public Technology
http://www.takeonepicture.org.uk is a web resource provided by the National Gallery, London for UK primary school teachers. The website has now been enhanced and expanded in response to the overwhelming success of the National Gallery's ‘Take One Picture’ scheme. The scheme promotes the use of art as a resource for creative teaching across the primary curriculum. The website has been created to increase the scheme’s reach - to inspire teachers nationwide and provide all the information and resources needed for getting involved in ‘Take One Picture’. The site contains easy-to-access information and provides free online resources, including teachers’ notes and zoomed images for all ‘Take One Picture’ paintings. (0) comments
Local Leaders Recognize Innovative New York City Schoolchildren At Thinkquest New York City's Second Annual Awards Event
ThinkQuest New York City, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Internet technology to local schoolchildren, announced the winners of its annual Internet Challenge at its Team Awards and Recognition Event at the Puck Building on June 8th. This year's competition drew more than 2,000 New York City schoolchildren and educators from 75 city schools, who created educational websites in categories including arts and literature, math and science, social sciences, interdisciplinary, and sports and health. (0) comments Thursday, June 10, 2004
Cyberlab: An Ally for Teaching Scientific Collaboration - Mike Calhoun, techLearning
Often when a scientist, engineer, or medical practitioner makes a discovery, develops a new procedure, or invents a new device he or she writes a paper explaining what he or she has done. This paper is usually published in a scientific journal or, increasingly today, over the Internet. One reason for publishing these discoveries or new procedures is to give peers the opportunity to see if the discovery or procedure is reproducible. If an experiment, discovery, or new procedure is reproducible then it is considered valid. As a middle school science teacher my challenge was to try to develop in my students an understanding of this important process. I also wanted them to know that, thanks to the telecommunication and transportation revolutions, scientists from many different countries and cultures work together on a variety of projects collaboratively. (0) comments
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5107
Liz Bartell thought she would major in Spanish or another of the liberal arts when she arrived at the all-women Smith College four years ago. But she had always liked math, so, at her mother's urging, she took an introductory course in engineering her first semester. "It was insanely hard, and I didn't do well, but I loved it," Bartell said. "It was so challenging I just couldn't get enough." (0) comments Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Many wireless networks open to denial-of-service attacks - Corey Murray, eSchool News
School technology leaders are taking seriously the news of a flaw in many wireless infrastructures that could enable hackers to jam "open-air" transmissions using the simplest of handheld devices. The vulnerability, first reported by the technology news service CNET, is said to involve devices operating on the most common stretch of wireless spectrum, dubbed the 802.11 standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the standards-setting body responsible for approving new wireless protocols. (0) comments
Technology Integration and the Beacon School Portal - Chris Lehmann, techLearning
When the pundits first started looking at how the computer revolution could affect our schools, the first wave of theory looked at how computer and Internet technology could revolutionize the classroom. While that was an important piece of the puzzle, it really only told a small part of the story. The real potential for transformation lays in the way that Internet technology can break down the walls of schools, democratizing our schools and increasing the flow of information so that administrators, parents, teachers and students can more powerfully share in the educational community of a school. (0) comments Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Bush FY 2006 cuts would irk educators - eSchool News
In the wake of reports that President Bush plans to cut spending on education and other domestic programs if he is reelected, education and ed-tech advocacy groups are calling on lawmakers to preserve federal dollars for schools regardless of the outcome of the November elections. The Bush administration has told officials who oversee federal education, domestic security, veterans, and other programs to prepare preliminary 2006 budgets that would cut spending after the presidential election, according to White House documents. (0) comments
Intel keeps the teachers in touch - Eric Wilson, SMH
Intel is making a generous and very astute investment in the NSW and Victorian public school systems: it is providing teacher training that is bound to accelerate the use of PCs in education. But its "Teach to the Future" program isn't about imposing a set curriculum on students through the latest e-learning platform. Instead, it poses essential questions that are answered by students using computer-based activities. "The essential question is the key to the whole thing," says Cecilie Murray, manager of e-Learning at the Victorian Department of Education and Training's research and innovation division. (0) comments Monday, June 07, 2004
Maricopa County Tests Facial Recognition Technology in Schools - Justine K. Brown, Converge
A woman walks into the office at Royal Palm Middle School in north-central Phoenix to register a new student. As she does so, a camera picks up her image, which is transferred to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Here, facial recognition technology compares the image to a database containing pictures of parents known to have abducted children from their custodial parents. Although the child is registered under a false name -- because she has been missing from her custodial parent's home for six months -- the facial recognition technology matches the parent and child with profiles in the registry. An alarm sounds at the Sheriff's Office, an office representative confirms the possible match and police launch an investigation. (0) comments
Texas District Piloting Laptops and E-Books - Converge
Forney Independent School District in Forney, Texas, will mitigate a textbook shortage by providing every fifth and sixth grader in Johnson Elementary School with an IBM ThinkPad computer loaded with digital versions of textbooks and other works of literature. The pilot, if successful, will be expanded. "We think this is a win-win situation," said Superintendent Mike Smith in a release. "If a delivery system such as the ThinkPad makes learning more exciting for the students and also solves the lack of textbooks, it's a system we need to explore. These are digital kids, accustomed to multi-tasking and accustomed to the electronic world." According to the district, approximately 600 students were without textbooks last August, and some have not been received from the state even today. (0) comments Sunday, June 06, 2004
Parents Online
Parents Online has been created by the U.K. Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to promote home school links by helping parents understand the role of Information Communications Technology (ICT) in learning. The Internet has great educational benefits for your whole family and surfing together brings that learning experience to life. (0) comments
Teaching Tolerance
Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start — and continue — the journey. Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of American life. Winner of the Webby Award for Activism and Electronic (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
