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Saturday, May 07, 2005
Computers in the High School Classroom - Education World
High school teachers face enormous pressure to prepare students for state standardized tests, college admissions tests, and AP exams. Do computers "get in the way" of teaching in such an environment or can technology improve achievement without taking time away from the curriculum? Education World's Tech Team offers opinions on the reality and possibilities of "teching" in high school. Included: Nine easy ways to integrate technology in high school and links to technology in action at high schools across America. (0) comments
Run PowerPoint Your Way - Education World
Your students have created a wonderful PowerPoint show for Science Fair, and you want to set up PowerPoint to keep the show running during the fair. You also want to "hide" a few slides that Science Fair attendees won't need to see. And you want to send the slide show home so all parents, whether they have PowerPoint on their computers or not, can see their children's work. Can you do it? Of course you can! (0) comments Friday, May 06, 2005
Measuring Progress With Technology in Schools - Cheryl Lemke, THE Journal
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. Across the nation, schools see highly qualified teachers, differentiated instruction, and informed data-driven decision-making as highly effective strategies for improving the academic achievement of all students - all strategies highly dependent on smart, integrated uses of technology. While states have established accountability systems to measure student achievement, they have not yet set up clear measures for effective integration of technology into teaching, learning and leadership in schools. Fortunately, SETDA has stepped up to fill that gap. (0) comments
Administrative Technology: NEW RULES, NEW TOOLS- Donald R. Tetreault, THE Journal
Much of the focus for education technology through the ’90s was on technology equity as measured by student access to computers. While efforts to improve technology equity and access were met with wide success in the years that followed, the focus of education technology is now shifting away from such issues as new themes have started to emerge. Most of these themes focus on the question of how best to utilize technology in schools. Admittedly, we have seen an explosion in technology use for curricular delivery and enhancement in the past decade, and that trend seems likely to continue unabated. (0) comments Thursday, May 05, 2005
Tech savvy helps supes land jobs - Robert Brumfield, eSchool News
As computers and the internet become increasingly important to both the business and instructional practices of school districts, a growing number of school boards are making an understanding of technology and how it can be used to enhance school operations a key factor in their search for a new superintendent. In Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, the local school board last month hired Phillip J. Ertl, district administrator for the state's Kiel Area School District, as its new superintendent for next year. At Kiel, Ertl oversaw the operation of a district with 180 employees and a $13 million budget--reportedly a fraction of the nearly $70 million budget he will oversee in Wauwatosa. (0) comments
Space-Age Speakeasy - Jason Ohler, techLearning
.... They speak into the "voice wand" and their translated words emerge on the other side, more or less in their own voice. This technology is inevitable in some form. In a world that values multiculturalism (the Los Angeles School District is committed to serving a student body that speaks 224 languages), technology that honors and facilitates both first and second languages will be welcome. The voice wand's ability to teach foreign language is potentially miraculous, allowing students to receive instant feedback in the context of real conversations. Students traveling to foreign countries, physically or via video chat, could dispense with dog-eared translation dictionaries and clunky software and actually talk with people. A voice wand could become standard issue technology for every global citizen. (0) comments Wednesday, May 04, 2005
How To: Be VoIP-Savvy - Jeffrey Branzburg, techLearning
Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon, and many other high-speed broadband Internet providers are now also offering telephone services through "Voice over Internet Protocol." This technology sends ordinary telephone calls over the Internet rather than over telephone lines. While impractical without the use of a broadband Internet connection, with the number of home broadband users exceeding 50 percent, a small but growing number of people are opting to use VoIP for their telephone service. (0) comments
Students turn to web for textbook deals - eSchool News
Armed with her class list for the upcoming semester, graduate student Lindsay Hendricks always treks first to the campus bookstore at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. But if they don't have what she's looking for, Hendricks' next stop is her computer. There are great deals to be had searching for college textbooks over the internet, Hendricks said. She got one textbook, How to Think Straight About Psychology, which normally costs about $40 for just $5--used--through Amazon.com. "In graduate college, we're all about cheap books," said the 26-year-old Hendricks. (0) comments Tuesday, May 03, 2005
$20M to enrich history, civics - Robert Brumfield, eSchool News
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has launched a $20 million initiative to fund multimedia projects that improve the understanding of American history and civics by middle and high school students. According to CPB, the three-year, multi-phase effort will help fund partnerships among broadcast and content developers, the education community, the technology sector, and others to design multimedia projects that can measurably improve the teaching and learning of American history and enhance civic activity among students. (0) comments
All in the Family - Peter Weinstein, techLearning
Parents like to be in the know about their kids at school. Tests: how did they do on the last ones, when are the next ones? Homework: what is it, when is it due, and have they turned it in on time? Discipline: have they been sent to the principal's office? Do they talk in class or disrupt others? Absences and tardiness: are they going to school and staying there?Keeping in touch with each parent is labor-intensive, however, so schools have always had to keep interactions simple and somewhat limited in scope: a report card once a semester, an annual parent-teacher conference, yearly standardized test score results, periodic newsletters, and perhaps an occasional call from the attendance office. (0) comments Monday, May 02, 2005
Podcast Nation - Will Richardson, eSchool News
From a education standpoint, podcasting seems to be hitting its stride. For the uninitiated, podcasting is the creation and distribution of amateur radio that people can download to their mp3 players and listen to at their leisure. Incredibly, Podcast Alley now lists 65 education related podcasts that cover a variety of disciplines and even come in some different languages. Now I haven't listened to very many of these shows, but the sheer number tells me that the meme is spreading among educators. (0) comments
All in the Family - Peter Weinstein, techLearning
Parents like to be in the know about their kids at school. Tests: how did they do on the last ones, when are the next ones? Homework: what is it, when is it due, and have they turned it in on time? Discipline: have they been sent to the principal's office? Do they talk in class or disrupt others? Absences and tardiness: are they going to school and staying there? Keeping in touch with each parent is labor-intensive, however, so schools have always had to keep interactions simple and somewhat limited in scope: a report card once a semester, an annual parent-teacher conference, yearly standardized test score results, periodic newsletters, and perhaps an occasional call from the attendance office. (0) comments Sunday, May 01, 2005
CLOSING THE GENDER GAP - Katherine Cromer, Star-Telegram
Pat Linford never thought she might be part of the problem. But as she watched a video of a master science teacher leading his students in a lab experiment, the veteran science teacher was stunned. When the girls asked questions, he gave them the answers and even did parts of the experiment for them. When the boys asked questions, he pushed them with his own questions: "Why do you say that?" and "What does that mean?" What Linford, a Grapevine-Colleyville school district science teacher, and 15 other teachers enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington's Metroplex Area Gender Equity Institute saw was too familiar. Were they, as teachers, contributing to the high number of girls rejecting classes -- and eventual careers -- in math and science? (0) comments
Make your own textbook - Paromita Pain, Hindu Business Online
IT is a problem teachers, particularly technology teachers, face - culling useful course material for their students from different sources, and making it available to their precious wards, in and outside the classroom. Precisely such a problem was the starting point for O'Reilly, a technology publisher. And thus was born SafariU, (http://safariu.oreilly.com), O'Reilly's new solution, which is a Web-based platform to create, publish and share textbooks. O'Reilly is a publisher in areas such as Open Source technologies, operating systems, programming languages, Web design, networking and system administration. On the SafariU platform, customised textbooks can be created and published. One can select book chapters, sections or pieces of writing needed from the vast Safari database. (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
