Curriculum
1-to-1 Laptop Program: Planning for Success
September 20,2010
So you have decided to develop a 1 to 1 laptop program at your school district
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Yes -- Student Blogs Allowed!
March 16,2010
The keystroke is mightier than the sword, was the message that social studies teacher Gideon Sanders of Washington, D.C.’s McKinley Technology High School helped send last October.? ?While 200 angry McKinley Tech students took to
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T&L Announces the 2009 Awards of Excellence Winners
October 28,2009
Tech & Learning magazine today named 65 education technology products as winners in its prestigious program
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Highlights from Tech Forum Northeast, Palisades, NY October 23, 2009
October 27,2009
Welcome and Opening Keynote Chris LehmannBuilding School 2.0 Creating the Schools We NeedWhat is School 2.0? What are the pedagogical ideas that form it? Examine ideas of constructivist pedagogy and the use of 21st Century tools
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Students with Disabilities Excel in Summer Work Program
July 31,2009
A six-week summer work program at Intermediate School District 287 in Plymouth, Minnesota trained students with disabilities in document imaging tasks, and was so successful that the district has decided to make it a regular part
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Safety Net: Web filtering that works
July 23,2009
A district can take many steps to ensure that its students are protected from harmful, obscene, or otherwise unworthy websites
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Connecting neuroscience and reading
July 21,2009
Neuroscience research has shown that the only real way to change the trajectory of a child’s academic career is to change the rate and accuracy with which the brain receives and uses information. Research conducted by Drs.
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Eight Ways To Use School Wikis
July 21,2009
Wikis are a great tool to help a school enrich instruction, and increase communication and collaboration among staff
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Ready for 1:1? Check this list before you answer
July 16,2009
Check this list before you start your 1 1 program or to improve an existing program. Search for more funding The state may be providing machines and some training support but I will guarantee it will not be enough.
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Free RTI Tools
July 16,2009
The National Center on Response to Intervention recently released a free Progress Monitoring Tools Chart
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Calculating the ROI on virtual schooling
June 25,2009
All these schools are interested in Virtual High School (VHS)
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Look Ma, no textbooks
June 22,2009
Empire High School (Vail, AZ) seniors will be the first group of students to have started and completed their high school careers without the use of traditional textbooks, using personal laptops instead
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Virtualization saves Texas school over a million dollars
June 10,2009
Steve Young, chief technology officer of the Judson school district in Texas, recently performed his own energy cost analysis a year after beginning a major computer upgrade and expansion program in his school district of 21,000
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25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
June 4,2009
Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in
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Michelle Obama on Education
May 28,2009
If you haven't watched the videos posted at TED
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