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T.H.E. Journal January 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Tabula Digita will test educators' math skills... US middle school students can do their part to help save the planet by entering the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge... IBM introduced a new Web 2.0 peer-to-peer learning tool... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal January 20, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Video Game Prepares Texas District for State Test Austin Independent School District in Texas is expanding the use of the DimensionM educational video games to seven middle schools and 15 charter schools. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
DimensionM Multiplayer 2.0 by Tabula Digita Tabula Digita announces the release of DimensionM Multiplayer 2.0, the newest version of its immersive math video game for students in grades 3 to 12. |
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 Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
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 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 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 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 July 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: How to Get Our Groove Back As China and India threaten the supremacy of the US economy, our best hope for keeping pace is putting ed tech funding to use to galvanize education. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Ripple Effect HHMI is awarding a $22.5 million, 5-year grant to the National Math and Science Initiative to expand UTeach, an established training program aimed at preparing science and math majors to become teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
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. |
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 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 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships US Schools Leaving Mobile Devices Idle... Whitmore Lake HS Pilots Green Tech Courses... Online Safety Contest Launches... etc. |
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. |
Geotimes June 2004 Emily Lehr Wallace |
Science Funding Left Behind No Child Left Behind stymies the National Science Foundation program in fiscal year 2005. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 |
Best Practices: A Top 10 List Frustrated by the meager payoff from its traditional efforts to improve schools, a new generation of business philanthropists is developing innovative approaches to solving this seemingly intractable problem. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Neal Starkman |
Problem Solvers US students continue to lag behind the rest of the world in the four core STEM subjects. The answer, many believe, is a practical approach to instruction: project-based. |
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. |
CIO January 1, 2006 Gary Beach |
A Sensible Proposal America needs math and science teachers. You have knowledgeable employees getting ready to retire. See the connection? IBM does. |
D-Lib February 2004 Shechtman, Chung & Roschelle |
Supporting Member Collaboration in the Math Tools Digital Library: A Formative User Study The primary purpose of the NSDL is to support federated search (NSDL, 2003), thus simplifying an individual instructor's effort to find relevant, high quality resources. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Math In addition to receiving extra help from parents and peers, students may sharpen their math skills with a number of math software programs. This article details mathematical solutions that cater to all levels, skills, languages and state standards... |
National Defense June 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Waning Education Standards Threaten U.S. Competitiveness High-quality education is critical to national security, and the United States must address a number of challenges in its educational system if it wants to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and in key technologies. |
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 November 2001 |
Fiber to the School Desk To run high-bandwidth intensive programs like video-on-demand and distance learning, many schools are finding that their installed cabling systems are not adequate and need to be replaced... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2006 Stephen R. Leeolou |
Breaking Up the Bottleneck The new affordability of ultra-high-speed networks is relieving K-12 schools of insufficient bandwidth and opening them up to a world of digital education. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
Home Toys April 2006 Minsoo Park |
When it Comes to HDMI/DVI Connectivity, You Have Two Choices: Copper or Fiber Optics. Which is Right for You? Connectivity products such as cables are one investment you will need to live with for at least 10 years. Consider it an investment as cable quality does make a difference and it will stay with your system for a very long time. |
Macworld November 30, 2006 Peter Cohen |
Dimenxian Algebra-based first-person shooter is a real blast |
Science News March 31, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Circles Inspire Students Programs outside of school are helping students discover math on their own. |
Geotimes April 2007 Vernon J. Ehlers |
Education: Why Do I Have to Learn Geometry? The study of science, technology, engineering and math is critical for every student in our nation, not only for enhancing their opportunities for good jobs, but also for improving our national security and competitiveness. |
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
Wired April 2001 |
Turn on the Light Optical networking will explode, and the way we connect to everything will never be the same... |
Scientific American July 2005 Lamont Wood |
Copper for Fiber In the end, the hybrid DSL/fiber approach may just whet consumers' appetites for pure fiber, especially as its upgrade potential is realized--the 100-megabit maximum offered by Verizon is only one millionth the theoretical capacity of fiber. |