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T.H.E. Journal February 2006 |
Assessment Testing >> In Their Hands Handheld devices empower teachers with assessment data they can put to immediate use. |
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 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 May 2003 Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability Assessment and accountability are not new to educators, but they have been brought to the forefront as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to conduct annual mathematics and reading tests in grades 3-8. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf |
Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Paul Tullis |
An 'A' in Abstractions In Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have revamped every subject area from K through 12. |
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. |
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 July 2008 Christine Fox |
Elementary Schools : The Time Is Now Early diagnosis of academic deficits is pivotal to keeping students from falling irretrievably behind. Formative assessment technology gives teachers the tools to respond. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Lisa A. Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 3: Using Data to Improve Instruction Are you using the right tests? The correct assessment methods? The best technology? These are only a few of the issues that must be addressed in the effort to use data to change teacher practice. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
A Quicker Clicker When loaded with virtual clicker software, any device takes on the function of a student response system. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mainwaring & Bergma |
South Carolina: Tech-Savvy Teachers South Carolina's innovative ePortfolio system is helping educators get up to speed on technology and become more comfortable integrating new tools into their classrooms. |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Elizabeth M. Willis & Peggy Raines |
Technology in Secondary Teacher Education Educators must accept the computer and its software not as replacements for the content of the disciplines at the core of the curriculum, but as useful extensions that complement content... |
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2006 Randy Yerrick |
Globalizing Education One Podcast at a Time Digital media has emerged as a tool of choice for offering multimodal instruction, integrating content and pedagogy, reaching diverse learners, and complementing science instruction for today's inclusive classrooms. |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Justine Brown |
Mobile Assessment: Working Smarter, Not Harder With new assessment technology providing instant feedback on their students, once-skeptical teachers now have no desire to return to the way things were. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 Gary West |
Technology Tools to Make Educational Accountability Work The South Carolina Education Accountability Act of 1998 (EAA) establishes new standards for student performance. There is little doubt that such standards are needed as our state attempts to move up the ladder toward excellence... |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Up Close and Virtual By adding web-based offerings to traditional in-person sessions, school districts can continue to provide support to teachers when face-to-face visits aren't possible. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2002 Mary Black |
Online System Simplifies Early Childhood Assessment for Florida School District Schools in Florida's Broward County recently found a solution to meet reporting requirements by encouraging the use of an online assessment system instead of an offline early childhood assessment tool. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 Frances Bryant Bradburn |
A Program With Impact A suitably named North Carolina technology integration model is enriching teaching and learning in schools that need it most. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development. |
T.H.E. Journal March 5, 2010 David Nagel |
National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools The U.S. Department of Education released the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan. The document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum, but to implement some major changes to education itself. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 |
Texas District Uses Web-Based Assessment Solutions To Target Instruction Standards-based formative assessment and computer-adaptive diagnostic testing provide educators with data to address student needs. |
T.H.E. Journal October 15, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Makes Reading Assessment Software Available for iPod Touch Teachers can turn the Apple iPod Touch into a portable reading assessment tool with the help of software now available for the device from Pearson. |
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. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 |
How a Teacher Gets Graded--and Paid Does spelling count? What goes into calculating a teacher's paycheck. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Matthew Miller |
Focus on Assessment Tools Exciting new assessment tools benefit both students and educators. These tools are making teaching simpler and more rewarding for instructors, because they can now concentrate more on their students' education and not on creating documents... |
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Wayne Moore |
Facts and Assumptions of Assessment: Technology, The Missing Link The infusion of technology in schools has opened the door for opportunities to challenge governing bodies to use the technology to provide student assessment that will measure their abilities for connecting knowledge learned with real-world applications. |
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 May 2007 Neal Starkman |
Reading First :: Reading First...Technology Second? The federal early-literacy program gets a big boost from tools used for professional development and personalized student instruction. But that potential is too often going unrecognized. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Rick Gaisford |
Utah: In Mint Condition Using intensive professional development and technology-powered strategies, Utah's eMINTS program is polishing up the performance of students in high-poverty schools across the state. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Cathy J. Poplin |
Models of Professional Development This article focuses on the models of professional development used by a variety of U.S. Technology Innovation Challenge Grant programs. A large number of 1998 projects are highlighted. |
ifeminists December 17, 2002 Glenn Sacks |
Why Teachers Leave An effective school or school district leadership does one thing above all: It keeps good teachers in the classroom. Our schools are like an army whose best soldiers, year after year, are deserting. I have three solutions. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Neal Starkman |
Formative Assessment: Building a Better Student By testing academic performance at regular intervals, formative assessment strategies regard every child as a work in progress. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2003 Bob Lally |
Difference by Design: Taking Learning Tools From the Home into the Classroom Technologies developed as learning tools that will be used by children at home are judged by a different set of criteria than those educators use to determine their suitability for the classroom. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Anita Givens |
Technology Integration: Meeting the Technology Integration Challenge in Texas Schools Deep in the heart of Texas classrooms, students use digital technology to access, analyze and evaluate information; solve problems; and communicate with diverse audiences. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Cathryn Harvey |
Special Education Solutions in the Age of NCLB While an individualized approach to connecting assessment with instruction is helping mainstream students succeed, there have not been solutions that special education teachers can adopt in helping with the issues surrounding standardized testing. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2002 William Zaggle |
Producing Assessment-Savvy Educators The biggest thing going for the education technology industry today is the push toward standards-based assessment. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Michelle Gamble-Risley |
Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Michael Golden |
Leadership & Advocacy: Technology's Potential, Promise for Enhancing Student Learning Ultimately, the challenge is about helping all stakeholders use technology to transform the culture of education to enhance student performance. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Wangemann et al. |
Portable Technology Comes of Age The utilization of handhelds in a pilot teacher education program |