A pilot program for developmentally delayed children that combines new communication therapies with iPad2 technologies has started at the Center for Child and Family Research at Siskin Childrens Institute in Chattanooga.
The goal of the 2012 America the Beautiful contest is to inspire students to appreciate what makes our country great and to use their writing skills to share with others stories about those places that are special to them. We want to know what they love about their hometown or a place where they experienced a special memory or what landmarks in our country inspire them.
The goal is to design student-driven learning experiences that are fueled by standards-based Essential Questions and facilitated by digital tools to provide students with flexible learning paths.
Peter Drucker, the man who is often credited for inventing management, once said that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”. This is absolutely true in the classroom as well.
A terrific article for all educators to read to "get it."
AT&T Aspire contributes to programs focused on working with students and schools in at risk communities to help increase graduation rates and prevent dropout...
Special educators throughout the region say the iPod and the newer, larger iPad tablet, are becoming an important tool in teaching and communicating with their students.
This week Evernote rolled-out a super-useful speech to text feature in their Android app. Now you can dictate notes on your phone or your Android tablet.
Apple recently made a splash when it unveiled its iBookstore, featuring digital textbooks for high school math and science education from McGraw-Hill and others.
Many schools and universities around the world are playing a risky game right now that could make them irrelevant in the future. They’re simply holding onto past practices and not adapting to the changing world. But don’t take my word for it...
Think about a time when you were really engaged in something, the kind of engagement where you lose track of time and experience feelings of joy and satisfaction. You may have felt acutely focused, physically, mentally, and emotionally absorbed in a task. I've felt this most often while writing, reading, teaching, and coaching -- always signaled by the moment when I notice the clock and, feeling dazed, wonder where the hours have gone.
A robust new guide has just been published by Mohamed Amin on Scribd, and it’s chock full of more than 100 pages all about surveys and polling in the classroom. I’m particularly excited about this guide because it’s written for both a technical / expert audience as well as less-advanced users. You can use the guide to learn about new tools and check them out on your own… or to find out some special ways to integrate polling in the classroom you never thought of.
Edudemic Pulse is a new way to passively stay connected with our progressive–and frequent–content. Edudemic Pulse is a digest of content of #edtech grab-and-go content handpicked for K-12+ classroom application. Most of this will be directly sourced from the website, but more precisely focused on quick resources busy teachers can use on-the-go.
What the Universities need to know is that what’s coming for education is something like the shift the music industry failed to see until it was too late. Things will never be the same again. Instead of griping about how hard it will be to tap their endowments to pay for education, they should be thinking about how to take advantage of the changes.
Teachers in Memphis took a step last spring that seemed at first glance surprising: They chose to have their work evaluated in much the same way it is done in D.C. public schools.
If the rumors and screenshots are true, there’s a very fun classroom project coming your way… courtesy of Apple. They’re working on a way to let anyone create a 3D avatar that looks like it just walked off a Pixar film. It’s rumored to become a part of Apple’s Game Center but it could have larger uses.
Working in the field of digital media and learning, where the important role of new technologies in learning seems self-evident, the slow pace of change in mainstream education can feel frustrating. Responding to this challenge, we give a lot of attention to thinking about ways to support and encourage teachers to make greater use of the opportunities presented by digital media, but perhaps we should spend more time considering how and why technologies come to be used, or not used, in the first place.
Yes, as a society, we do need to remake our educational systems to deliver more young people to what Steve Jobs called "the intersection of technology and the humanities" — to bring American students' globally below-average math and science fluency up to snuff and keep them immersed in the arts. But each of us as individuals can also work to optimize our innovative capacities. If innovation is stimulated by identifying under-served markets and then figuring out a service or product to fill the void, then here are a few low-to-no-cost suggestions for reinvigoration.
It’s becoming clearer by the minute that, as Web technologies open more and more doors for learners, they also pose more and more challenges to traditional thinking about schools. At the center is figuring how best to prepare students for the vast learning opportunities they have outside of the traditional education system. While the challenges are different for each individual school and district, all will be forced to come to terms with five new realities in the short term.
“It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from, as a union rep, from the principal’s association, or a teacher,” said state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), the bill sponsor. “We’re all talking about what needs to get done to ensure we have great student outcomes.”
New Jersey has earned an overall grade of D+ from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
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