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T.H.E. Journal
August 2005 |
Two New Releases from Plato Learning Completing their Writing Process and Practice series, Plato Learning has released two new products designed to improve students' literacy and writing skills.   |
Information Today
October 20, 2015 |
EBSCO Introduces Resource for College and Career Readiness EBSCO Information Services launched the PrepSTEP online learning platform to help students build the skills they need for college and career readiness. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 30, 2009
David Nagel |
States Look To Raise Reading Proficiency in Title I Schools The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. |
Information Today
April 28, 2015 |
Gale Provides Literacy Resource for Young Library Patrons Miss Humblebee's Academy is designed to help 3- to 6-year-old patrons build foundational literacy skills. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2005 |
PLATO Physical Science This courseware is standards-based curriculum that utilizes computer animation and multimedia instruction to address scientific concepts. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2004 |
PLATO Life Science PLATO Life Science courseware is designed to help middle school students better visualize science concepts. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Plato Gets Top Grade The computer-based and e-learning instruction company gets a boost from its Lightspan acquisition, but will future growth be slow? |
Information Today
May 14, 2015 |
Gale Helps Middle School Students With Information Literacy Gale launched Research In Context, an online, multimedia (images, audio, video, and primary sources, etc.) research tool for middle school students. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2006 |
Read All About It! Here's a list of Reading First vendors are supplying educators with tools to advance student literacy. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Plato's Philosophy of Woe Shareholders have good reason to expel online education software provider Plato Learning, after its stock plunged from $10 in May to about $4.80 now. Despite efforts to improve its operations, the company is still flunking. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2014
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
U.S. Banker
June 2011
Joel Berg |
Financial Literacy: A Kiddie Lesson in Money Matters Elementary students get lessons from Pan American Bank in financial literacy, and teach some too. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Instant Web Access? 'Fancy' That One reason we may not be making much progress in tech-based education is a mistaken assumption among the public about the amount of access to technology that teachers and students have. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
International Reading Association and PLATO Learning The International Reading Association and PLATO Learning are sponsoring the International Reading Association Presidential Award for Reading and Technology, which is open to K-12 educators. |
Information Today
November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Markey et al. |
The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2007
Tom Taulli |
PLATO's School of Hard Knocks The online education software developer PLATO continues to struggle with its turnaround. Third quarter results continue a decline that has seen share prices lose about half their value this year. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2000 |
Students Practice Test Taking via the Internet The PLATO Simulated Test System, a Web-based assessment tool, integrates skill assessments and practice tests, which emulate state standards. This tool can be linked directly to individual student instruction... |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 27, 2009
Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
This Just In...PLATO Learning System A recent partnership between PLATO Learning, Inc. and the Discovery Channel School (DCS) resulted in the PLATO Learning System, a program that integrates more than 25 courses from DCS. |
Nursing Management
November 2011
Mary Ann Remshardt |
The Impact of Patient Literacy on Healthcare Practices With regard to patient teaching, how can healthcare personnel be certain that patients understand concepts basic to informed consent, hospital safety, dietary restrictions, and prescription information? |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Excelling in For-Profit Education The K-12 sector hasn't done as well as the adult educators, but Plato Learning is out to change that. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Plato's Q3 Report Card Educational software provider Plato Learning reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 earnings on Thursday. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
January 30, 2014 |
Credo Facilitates Information Literacy Instruction Credo launched a cloud-based Information Literacy Course Module designed to help libraries and academic institutions teach formalized, standards-driven information literacy courses. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program. |
Chemistry World
April 24, 2012
David Smith |
Skills for students Practical Skills in Chemistry, by John Dean could offer any undergraduate a way to develop all of the skills of a fine chemist. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 14, 2009
David Nagel |
Study: Games, Video Improve Preschooler Literacy A new study has shown that educational videos and interactive games can have a positive impact on preschooler literacy when incorporated into the curriculum in a classroom setting. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
NAEP Gets It One-Third Right A new federally authorized test of students' technology literacy has little in sync with the tech curriculum schools are teaching. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom. |
D-Lib
Bob Bolick |
Ebook Literacy The real excitement will begin when ebooks are fully embedded in the Web or in pre-configured digital libraries, because the literacy of browsing, choosing, and searching will bring that other literacy -- the literacy of the book -- under the pressure of immediate contextuality... |
Information Today
July 29, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
Reimagining Information Literacy Competencies ACRL completed the final document of a new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which its task force will submit to ACRL's board of directors at its October meeting. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2009
Claire Stephanic |
Who Cares About Financial Literacy? The U.S. Treasury and Education departments announced plans to improve financial education for high school students, focusing their efforts on poorer neighborhoods with few financial services. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005 |
Plato eduTest Assessment Plato eduTest Assessment is a comprehensive, standards-based online assessment and reporting solution for grades K-8. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004
John Washburn |
Credit-Recovery Program Helps At-Risk Students Meet Promotional Requirements Proof of e-learning's success as part of credit recovery is in the high number of students within this school who stay with the program until the end and gain credits needed for promotion. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009 |
Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 11, 2009
David Nagel |
SETDA Urges NAGB To Reconsider Tech Literacy Test The State Educational Technology Directors Association is now publicly urging the National Assessment Governing Board to reconsider its position on a nationwide test for technological literacy among students. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 15, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities Social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building. |
Job Journal
October 7, 2012 |
In a Tough Job Market, Soft Skills are Essential The skills employers value go well beyond technical expertise or your college degree, and it can improve your competitiveness to point out the `soft skills' you'd bring to a job. These valuable traits and abilities deserve a mention if you can back it up. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 25, 2007
Ferdig & Boyer |
Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
The Motley Fool
September 2, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Plato's Hollow Proclamation Plato's latest results are soft as the e-learning specialist struggles with its sales force. Investors, take note. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2001
Jim Schneider |
Focus on Reading/Language Development Reading and language skills are a true cornerstone of any child's education. To help teachers and parents in this important endeavor, several products are available to aid children in their learning of these basic skills. In this month's Focus On, we'll take a look at a few of these... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 7, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Financial Literacy Improves Lives A little schooling can transform children's financial futures. |
