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T.H.E. Journal
August 1999
Jim Schneider |
Focus on Reference In that spirit, this month's Software Focus-On will take a look at reference software....   |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Matthew Miller |
Focus on Social Studies Social studies is a broad topic, encompassing several subjects, including history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography and anthropology. It can also be one of the most visual learning experiences for students with the help of today's tools and software... |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2004 |
Discovery Channel School Version 2.0 Science CD Discovery Channel School recently released its Version 2.0 Science CDs that are available in more than 40 titles for grades 6-12. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Andrew Taylor |
ABC-CLIO Interactive's The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Civil rights is an issue many educators neglect in favor of less controversial topics. But with the new interactive encyclopedia, The Civil Rights Movement in the United States from ABC-CLIO, teachers and students have 500 articles and a host of multimedia materials to explore... |
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. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
ABC-CLIO Launches New ResourceLink CD-ROM ABC-CLIO Interactive has announced the release of ResourceLink: 18th-Century World History, a new multimedia research tool on CD-ROM. |
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
August 2001
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri remain some of the most valuable tools that aid in the completion of student research projects. This article presents the electronic versions of many reference industry favorites... |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Kathryn Childs |
ABC-CLIO's American Social Issues ABC-CLIO, longtime publisher of books and large bibliographic database products, offers six interactive multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM that are wonderful reference resources for upper middle and high school student research... |
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
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
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
September 9, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Computer Science Courses Show Steep Decline... Students to Take on Challenge to Change the World... Avermedia Announces Stimulus Promotion... etc. |
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
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Albert Cervera |
Document Management in the Open University of Catalunya Classrooms Through its document management services in Universitat Oberta de Catalunya classrooms, the UOC Library acts as a true learning and teaching facilitator and plays a central role in the university's learning model. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir. |
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. |
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
October 1, 2010
Dan Gordon |
Wow! 3D Content Awakens the Classroom From her first encounter with stereoscopic 3D technology designed for classroom instruction, Megan Timme sensed it could be transformative. |
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
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. |
Information Today
March 14, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools. |
Information Today
September 2, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science--Spotlight on Scitable Scitable is an educational website offered by Nature Education (a division of NPG) for biology and genetics educators and undergraduate students -- and it provides a free library of high quality vetted content and tools. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Katharine Gammon |
Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 1, 2010
Katherine Grayson |
Flippin Out The Flip camcorder is such a great way to get students active and engaged in their learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 18, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Making the Connections There's a real disconnect between students' 'real lives' and science. Teachers have to work to bridge that gap. |
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
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
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
July 27, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
It's All in the Preparation Three different technical tools for college entrance exam preparation. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
Information Today
October 25, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Releases CourseReader Cengage Learning has introduced CourseReader, a customized, digital collection of content assets for the classroom, further strengthening its CengageCourse suite of digital learning products and services. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
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
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. |
Information Today
June 2, 2015
Woody Evans |
Education + Simulation + Critical Thinking = Government Funding The U.S. Department of Education and IES (Institute of Education Sciences) awarded their 2015 Small Business Innovation Research grants to 21 educational startups this spring. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2007 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships FETC and CUE Launch New Ed Tech Conference... Filemaker Announces Free Training Materials... Tandberg Completes Acquisition of Codian... Toychallenge Aims to Interest Girls in Science... etc. |
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
August 2000
Elizabeth Amberg |
Focus on Reading/Language Development ...Although educational software should never be considered a substitute for books, several programs can give novice readers extra help and practice.... |
