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T.H.E. Journal January 2001 Matthew E. Coenen |
2000 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Grolier 2000 Multimedia Encyclopedia (GME) contains over 37,000 articles, and more if you take advantage of the online feature... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2000 |
FYI - The New Book of Popular Science Grolier Educational has launched The New Book of Popular Science Online, allowing students in grades 5 and up to explore scientific information and interactive activities.... |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Michael Bowker |
A Virtual Ticket to Ride A teacher at Clarion Elementary School in northwestern Pennsylvania, is able to take advantage of the reach of digital technologies to guide her students on what have become known as virtual field trips. |
High on Adventure December 2003 |
Secret Serengeti Allen Bechky Safaris reveal rarely seen side of Africa |
T.H.E. Journal March 4, 2010 Denise Harrison |
Technology Turns Students into Educators in Distance Learning Program At Stamford HS in Texas, the students also find themselves in the role of teacher as they bring their own part of the world and their own unique knowledge to others through videoconferencing. |
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 October 19, 2009 David Nagel |
Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
Real Travel Adventures December 2009 Neely & Neely |
Tanzania's National Parks: Arusha We fulfilled a long-held dream this year by going to East Africa for a Wildlife Photo Safari, and it was, perhaps, THE most amazingly memorable trip in all of our thirty-plus years as travel writers! |
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 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 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 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 March 17, 2010 Ruth Reynard |
Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction Recently, I interviewed a German language middle school teacher and she shared with me her uses for Web 2.0 tools in foreign language instruction. |
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 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. |
Real Travel Adventures June 2010 Neely & Neely |
Tent Camping In The Serengeti We could have chosen to balloon ride over the vast Serengeti National Park of Tanzania and taken it easy, just floating along, but how much we would have missed! |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad. |
CEO Traveler |
Kenya and Tanzania African Safari, Continued |
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. |
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 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. |
Information Today November 11, 2014 |
World Library of Science Aims to Open Science to All Students This free, online education resource is designed to give students around the world equal access to the latest science information. |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 15, 2009 Katherine Burger |
PNC Bank Introduces Virtual Wallet Student Based on year-old Virtual Wallet offering, tool is designed to empower students to better manage their money. |
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 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 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 April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities. |
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 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
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 March 18, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
The Suitability of Technology-based Education for Skills Development Skill development now refers not only to specific technical skills for specific vocations but to the development of workplace skills (or competencies) and personal development skills as well. |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
CEO Traveler |
Safari Photo Essay Images of Kenya and Tanzania |
Macworld February 2001 Nancy Peterson |
2001 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Excellent Research Source Expands... |
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 April 5, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Beware of Stock Market Games They don't always teach the right lessons. Drawing long-term conclusions from a stock's short-term performance is rarely a good idea. |
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. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
Fast Company November 2010 Nate Berg |
How the African Leadership Academy Is Fighting the Continent's Education Exodus A South African academy aims to teach the continent's brightest - and fight widespread brain drain. |
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. |
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. |
High on Adventure February 2001 |
The Heart of Kenya: The Maasai Mara Game Reserve Eye-to-eye with the game and tribes of the Serengeti... |
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 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. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jeanne Erdmann |
Weeklong Program Turns High School Students Toward Careers In Medicine High school students participating in the weeklong Maps in Medicine Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Over the next few days they will use the Internet, pore over x-rays and CT scans, and learn how doctors diagnose illnesses by facing a problem one well-researched step at a time. |