Similar Articles |
|
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. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Christine Fox |
Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable. |
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 February 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon |
1-to-1 Computing :: A Measure of Success The first rounds of data are in, and districts are evaluating the impact of their 1-to-1 programs. With the results showing a revolution in teaching and learning, the task now is to find ways to keep the funding alive. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 John K. Waters |
Maine Ingredients The nation's first-ever statewide 1-to-1 laptop program marks its seventh birthday by expanding into high schools, providing an occasion to celebrate - and to examine the components of its success. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2003 Wendol & King |
Technology for Charter Schools Too: A Team-Based Training Model Charter schools are a growing phenomenon in education. Because of the overwhelming start-up need to address curriculum, staffing, student recruitment, budget and so forth, technology planning and implementation are often forgotten. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 Philip J. Bossert |
Lessons Learned An inside look at four of the top technology school districts in the nation... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Ruth Watson |
The Trumbull County Community Network Project In the early 1990s, the school districts of Trumbull County, OH were similar to most schools in the amount of technology available to teachers, administrators and students. The project that changed that situation made an organized effort to infuse technology into K-12 schools... |
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. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Educators Awarded Environmental PD Courses... Microsoft Honors Innovative Educators... Google Offers Free Education Apps... |
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 June 2001 Julie Bohnenkamp & Jeff McMahon |
Click, Developing an Online Professional Development Program for Teachers Imagine the seemingly insurmountable task of training 3,000 teachers within a year and a half. That is one of the challenges that Indianapolis Public School's Telecommunication and Instructional Media team, directed by Dorothy Crenshaw, was facing approximately one year ago... |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news... |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Digital media benefits preparation for primary school... Houghton Mifflin will donate trees to schools... Website will promote science careers for girls... Schools are rated for online security... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Cathy J. Poplin |
Professional Development :: Arizona In Arizona, one-and-done workshops are a thing of the past, replaced by ongoing professional development that enables teachers to use classroom technology to full effect. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Scale Growing your innovative programs isn't just about adding more users. A new framework requires educators to stretch old notions of what scaling is and how it can be successful. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Jacob Milner |
Warming Up To Wireless As wireless technology takes hold in school districts, the biggest challenge is getting teachers to embrace it, to take student learning to a new level. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Garrett Dikkers et al. |
A Bridge to Success There is a no man's land between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways. |
PHONE+ July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Brenda Williams |
Leadership & Advocacy: Integrating Technology to Improve Student Learning West Virginia works to create a statewide technology infrastructure with student achievement as the ultimate focus of leadership. |
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 September 2006 Catherine Wambach |
Smart Classroom: From Revolutionary to Evolutionary: 10 Years of 1-to-1 Computing Laptop initiatives are now a decade old. Once a point of controversy, they have become the cornerstone of every district's technology hopes. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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 January 2009 Matt Eckel |
Logging On With... After 40 years of serving Broward County schools, the educator turned politician Robert Parks remains a force for technology integration. |
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 December 2006 |
2006 Innovators Teachers who have demonstrated the power of educational technology to transform teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Mark Erb |
The Power of Digital Integration A small-town district prepares its high school students for the future by implementing a 1-to-1 laptop program with digital communications tools. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Revolution on Hold In their push toward using digital content in the classroom, many schools are stuck in second gear until basic changes to both infrastructure and entrenched habits are made. But even as school districts grapple with making those changes, policymakers have begun to move forward. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2008 Matt Villano |
Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development A quintet of educators gathers to sound off on what works and what doesn't in the ongoing mission to train teachers to use technology in classroom instruction. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Fletcher & Wolf |
Making Waves States and districts are implementing technology integration efforts that recognize the ripples running across the education technology world. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
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 May 2007 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships K-12 leaders call for an enterprising approach to data management... Students feted for multimedia projects... Security firm raises spyware awareness... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Susan Brooks-Young |
Help Wanted For an alarming number of new teachers, the school gates have turned into a revolving door. Here's how technology can assist districts in addressing the reasons for the rampant turnover. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Mary Ann Wolf |
High Schools : An Equation That Works As secondary students continue to show little interest in the four STEM subjects, combining technology use with engaging instructional practices may be the only way to reach them. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 |
A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'. |
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 July 2006 Christine Fox |
Using Technology to Expand Opportunity: Going Virtual Online courses can get to people and places beyond the reach of the traditional school setting, serving the needs of students and teachers nationwide. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Justine Brown |
Lone Star Literacy Against all odds, Texas has enjoyed dramatic success in its implementation of Reading First. The state's well-coordinated approach and innovative use of technology offer a model for others to follow. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Matt Bolch |
Custom-Built Curriculum Districts are abandoning textbooks and instead picking and choosing their own instructional materials that more closely align to new academic standards. |