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T.H.E. Journal January 2009 |
Smart Table by Smart Technologies The Smart Table, is an interactive learning center designed for students from preschool to sixth grade. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Matematicas by EducationCity.com EducationCity.com has launched Matematicas, the Spanish-language version of its e-learning resource for math, made especially for students whose primary language is Spanish. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement. |
CIO June 8, 2012 Gary Beach |
How CIOs Can Help Build IT Talent for the Future Many in the US are concerned about the talent gap between American students and similarly-aged students overseas when it comes to math and science skills. CIOs can help by reaching out to guidance counselors and educating them about jobs in IT. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
K-2 Math by Dreambox Learning Dreambox Learning introduces K-2 Math, an online learning product for students in kindergarten through second grade that combines standards-based mathematics with interactive games. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
National Defense September 2010 Mark Russell |
One Company's Approach to Solving the Nation's STEM Dilemma Raytheon understands how to analyze complex systems in a comprehensive manner. These analysis techniques can be applied to the education problem of producing enough technology and engineering graduates. |
T.H.E. Journal February 17, 2010 Patricia Deubel |
Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
Fast Company February 2005 Jena McGregor |
Fast Take: Communication Cisco's thousands of internal discussion lists, which employees typically spend half their interactive time using, encourage experts to emerge naturally. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2001 Kathy Kelleher |
TDK Mediactive Movie Book From preschool to middle school, the TDK Mediactive Movie Book software package offers a variety of fun, educational and skill-building adventures with recognizable and popular movie characters... |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski |
STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 |
Drill Down What value do you think the use of gaming technologies would have in your classroom? |
Information Today May 21, 2015 |
Amazon Provides Learning Tools to Students Amazon Web Services introduced a program designed to deliver real-world cloud technology to classrooms around the world. |
T.H.E. Journal January 13, 2010 David Nagel |
What Are the Top-10 Ed Tech Priorities for 2010? Which issues in education technology should drive policymaking in 2010? |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Linking Graphing Tools and Technical Terms Makes Conceptualizing Math Easier A collection of interactive math tools, Let's Do Math: Tools and Things combines a graphing package with a graphing calculator. The graphing capabilities are also linked to a database of 1,100 math terms and definitions. |
Science News September 25, 2004 |
Quick Flicks The BrainPOP Web site boasts more than 200 animated movies with accompanying comics and activities that answer students' questions about science, math, health, and technology. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
Fast Company November 2009 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones? Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies to help kids conquer math. Are smartphone-learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick? |
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 April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2000 Kent Keel |
Can Portals Make a Difference in the Work of Educators |
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
AFP eWire March 24, 2008 |
Google Offers Charities New Portal for Online Services A new portal, called Google for Nonprofits, is now available that provides charities access and guidance on how to use a variety of tools and resources that Google offers. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad |
Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
Macromedia eLearning Innovation Award The first winners of the Macromedia eLearning Innovation Award, which recognizes authors of outstanding instructional content, are Smart Force and ExploreLearning.com... |
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts. |
InternetNews April 26, 2011 |
Google Puts $6 Million Into Open Source Summer Google pushes forward on its Summer of Code effort, helping over a thousand students and 175 open source projects. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
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. |
Fast Company April 2010 Zachary Wilson |
Log On and Learn: Devices, Sites and Apps for Kids A look at some of the coolest devices, sites, and apps for kids to log on and learn. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
Information Today January 8, 2009 |
Nature Education Launches Free Educational Resource--Scitable Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Matthew Pittinsky |
No Teacher Left Behind Online learning tools provide the foundation for today's professional development programs. |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2004 Roger Nusbaum |
Uh-Oh for Cisco A blowout earnings report may not be enough to lift Cisco. |
Information Today August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
National Defense August 2010 Cynthia D. Miller |
Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields. |
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. |
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 February 2005 Betty Schweizer |
The Evolution of Information Access From dedicated terminals and dial-up service to the power of the enterprise Web: proposes that school districts form consortia to purchase and leverage Web portal technology, highlighting Minnesota's Plumtree Portal, the first portal-based service for k-12 education. |
Information Today November 2000 |
Plumtree Software Introduces Corporate Portal 4.0 Plumtree Software, Inc. has announced the release of Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0, featuring the new Massively Parallel Portal Engine. According to the company, this engine processes user requests for corporate information and applications from a wide variety of computers in parallel... |
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Cisco Buys Into Vertical Social-Networking Cisco Systems today bought privately held social-networking vendor Five Across, lending a hand to companies wanting to go the user-generated route. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Dan Fitzpatrick |
Professional Development :: Ohio Limited funds forced Ohio to look beyond conventional methods of professional development. What it came up with was an eLearning program that offers opportunities for every educator to learn about integrating technology into the classroom. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Rich Smith |
Dueling Fools: Cisco Bull Here's a cheaper-than-average tech heavyweight with far better-than-average prospects. Looks like a buy for investors. |
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. |