Every two weeks until the end of the school year, we’ll host “A Day in the Life” conversation with different stakeholders, including principals, curriculum specialists, teachers, technology integration specialists, parents, and students, focused on how technology is improving communication and transforming instruction and learning in their districts.
A conversation with Jeremy Roschelle about technology in K-12 math and science education.
Fun Geography quiz site to help practice learning countries/states/mountain ranges for tests or just to do better on the geography game on facebook
A great site with tons of links to other media literacy sites in a number of countries
Galileo technology from ATI is built on the principles of science, supported by a commitment to research and guided by a vision that everyone should benefit from the opportunities and transformations of technology. ATI products and services offer schools effective ways to integrate research-based assessment, school information management systems, and eCurriculum.
There is a growing cluster of companies in the Northwest looking to
capitalize on educational needs.
At the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering in Stamford, Connecticut, educators have turned a 40-year-old school building into a
modern model for teaching and learning. And if it can be done here, school leaders say, it can be done anywhere.
Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse.
It is a scene being repeated across the country as schools deploy the blood-pumping video game Dance Dance Revolution as the latest weapon in the nation’s battle against the epidemic of childhood obesity. While traditional video games are often criticized for contributing to expanding waistlines, at least several hundred schools are using D.D.R as part of their regular physical education curriculu
Despite a renewed emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) education to keep America globally competitive,
many experts contend that students remain woefully ill-prepared in
technology and engineering--the core of the STEM disciplines. Hoping
to change that, many educators are turning to robotics.