Educational Technology Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield |
|
|
News, Techniques and Theories of Effective Use of Technology in Education 
Subscribe to Educational Technology by Email
|
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Ministry to promote computer-training skills - Ghana Home Page
The Ministry of Communication in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and Sports is pursuing a programme to promote the local assembly of affordable computers for use in education and also arrange fairer purchase terms for workers and students. In addition, training opportunities were being provided at the Community Information Centres that were being built in communities and would be provided with direct access to Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities such as Internet connectivity, telephones, tele-libraries and distance education. Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of Communications, announced this at the graduation of 200 students of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Kumasi on Saturday. He said for the country to progress and establish a foothold in the new information and communication age, it is important to build and disciplined youth sufficiently equipped with computer skills. The Minister therefore, stressed the need for everybody to become computer literate to enable the country compete with advanced countries in the ICT. (0) comments
Teamwork pays off for Monterey Bay - Robert Brumfield, eSchool News
If you pooled the technology resources of city hall, the police department, local businesses, area hospitals, a university, and elementary and secondary schools of a single community, what would you have? Answer: The iNet gigabit ethernet of Monterey Bay, Calif. Thanks to a rare collaboration among all the government agencies, schools, and other public entities in Monterey Bay, students, instructors, and other community members in this coastal city now enjoy internet connectivity at speeds more than 600 times faster than a T1 line can provide--and they enjoy it at just a fraction of the customary cost. (0) comments Friday, June 17, 2005
Tailoring Professional Development to critical need - Janice M. Hinson, Kimberly N. Laprairie, and Janet M. Cundiff, THE Journal
As the technological age continues to render traditional classroom practices obsolete, many educators are still untrained and apprehensive when it comes to technology integration. Therefore, a paradigm shift is needed that requires more than just a quick-fix staff development solution, especially since the No Child Left Behind Act stipulates that educators must be “highly qualified” by the end of the 2005-06 school year. This leads to the expectation that teachers will create learning environments which challenge and broaden their students’ comprehensive use of technology. (0) comments
A Bridge to Success - Amy Garrett Dikkers, Joan E. Hughes, and Scott McLeod, THE Journal
A Bridge to Success In that no man's land between school technology and effective leadership, the University of Minnesota's School Technology Leadership Initiative is a welcoming bridge. I often feel that we’re stuck in a sort of ‘no man’s land’ between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways,” said a recent participant of our School Technology Leadership Initiative at the University of Minnesota. He is not alone in that no man’s land. In fact, few mechanisms exist today in K-12 education to prepare school leaders to understand and espouse innovative technologies, even as technological innovation is occurring so rapidly. (0) comments Thursday, June 16, 2005
Earth Force
"Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future." Educators can learn about Earth Force's three programs: Community Action and Problem solving (CAPS), the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN), and Earth Force After School. Users can discover students' many accomplishments such as creating reusable fabric grocery bags, recycling cell phones and ink cartridges to earn money, and cleaning up litter. The Tools for Teachers section offers evaluation results, a quality rubric, and a description of the six-step Earth Force community action and problem- solving process. From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ (0) comments
EPA: Environmental Kids Club
At this EPA website, kids can explore the environment and learn how they can help protect it. The website offers fun interactive stories, hands-on experiments, quizzes, and much more. To explore the activities, users can either select areas of the Clubhouse or pick an environmental subject. The topics covered include air, water, garbage and recycling, plants and animals, you and your environment, and science. Artists can find opportunities to create their own pictures about the environment and submit them to the EPA. Teachers can locate curriculum resources, educational materials about environmental subjects, and information on scholarships, awards, and grants. From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ (0) comments Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Here come video yearbooks 2.0 - eSchool News
Video yearbooks, if still not exactly a commonplace on the education scene, are certainly not the high-tech innovation they once were. Even so, some schools this season are taking the video yearbook to a whole new level, preparing for that stroll down memory lane via montage slideshows and wireless delivery to student picture phones. It's video yearbook version 2.0, you might say. As a supplement to their traditional print yearbooks, many students this spring are taking home slickly produced digital versions for their computers and DVD players. These second-generation high-tech supplements include slide shows set to music, video clips of school year highlights, and personal messages from fellow classmates. (0) comments
Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes - David Cohn, Wired
Third graders at Columbia University's elementary school may never know the painful sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard. That's because the dust-covered board that normally would be the focus of their classroom has been replaced by a giant, touch-sensitive computer screen. All across the country, chalkboards are being ditched in favor of interactive, computer-driven whiteboards that allow students and teachers to share assignments, surf the web and edit video using their fingers as pens. (0) comments Tuesday, June 14, 2005
New Chips on the Block - Bruce Gain, Wired
We have embarked upon a new era in x86 PC computing -- so say chip giants AMD and Intel following their launches of dual-core PC processors. So how will dual-core processing change your PC computing experience? Our FAQ should help you decide whether or when you should make the leap. What is a dual-core chip? A dual-core processor differs from a single-core chip in that it has two physical computer processing unit, or CPU, cores on a single die. So when you buy a PC with an Intel or AMD dual-core processor, the CPU architecture will have two processor cores bridged together with electronics circuitry. (0) comments Monday, June 13, 2005
More preschoolers going online - eSchool News
Before they can even read, nearly one out of every four children in preschool is learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the internet. Some 23 percent of children in nursery school--kids ages 3, 4, or 5--have gone online, according to an Education Department (ED) report. By kindergarten, 32 percent have used the internet, typically under adult supervision. The numbers underscore a trend in which the largest group of new users of the internet are kids ages 2 to 5. These figures have important implications for school systems, which must adjust their methods of instruction to accommodate an increasingly tech-savvy generation of new students, experts say. (0) comments
Remote PC Management - Jenni Hilton and Patrick Figgatt, techLearning
Guilford County Schools' technical support department consists of thirty people responsible for supporting those 102 schools and four administrative sites, stretched across a 40-mile radius of the county. Previously, when a support call came in, the support staff had to travel to one of the hundred or so sites to investigate the computer problem. Physical site visits encompassed a large chunk of our workday. We were increasing costs for travel reimbursement and were not maximizing the technical department's resources to its potential. Realizing this, Guilford County decided to seek out a centralized solution that would allow our technical department to work remotely from the main office. After trying a large, costly PC management solution with no success, we researched three software products found on the Internet (0) comments Sunday, June 12, 2005
Interactive high school biology curriculum - I-Wire
To help high-school students better understand and apply scientific methodologies to biology problems, the Intelligent Systems Application Center (ISAC) in Temple's College of Engineering has been awarded a three-year, $843,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to develop three intelligent, interactive, multimedia modules for use in high-school biology curriculums. (0) comments
Hi-tech high - Marc Ingber, Sun Newspapers
Don't know if it's a first, but it's sure a sign of the times. A rural elementary school in Maine decided to forgo the bake sale path to fund-raising and instead is planning an Internet auction. Located in southern Maine near the New Hampshire border, Lebanon Elementary School is attempting to earn enough money to send fifth graders to a residential Environmental Education program. Independent Gov. Angus King has offered to allow the kids to auction off lunch for four with him at the Governor's Mansion in Augusta, ME. (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
