April 23,2013
Can it be only a year since Tech & Learning sported this“Flipped” cover?
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March 28,2013
There is a drastic change underway in how we buy and usehardware and software in the classroom.
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February 28,2013
What a great time to be writing about educationtechnology.
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February 5,2013
Will the fear mongering over social media inschools never cease?
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February 4,2013
We’re two weeks away from the big show and already the calendar is filled with meetings, sessions, and events that make Bett13 theyear’s biggest event in ICT! With a new location at the Excel Centre, Bett13 should be better than ever.
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January 4,2013
Online bullying. Sexting.
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October 30,2012
Two recent school tours this fall have convinced me thatthe phrase “reinvention of education” may finally bemore than cliche.
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September 27,2012
Have all the election numbers regarding budgets, tax
rates, and voter percentiles got you confused and
frustrated?
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September 6,2012
Traditionally, we dub this month’s magazine the “Back to
School” issue.
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July 26,2012
There are two phrases of late that may soon be retired from
the Tech&Learning lexicon.
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June 29,2012
June is high season for edtech trade shows.
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May 30,2012
Well, that was fun. Our third annual Big10
feature is in the books, which means that the
conversations can begin!
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May 2,2012
Let’s face it: all this talk about “flipping the classroom” is a
fad.
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March 29,2012
I hate paper.
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February 29,2012
It’s probably no surprise that I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to the
next great (hyped) thing.
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January 31,2012
Notice anything different? We’ve made some changes
to the place.
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January 13,2012
Here it is again, that time of year
when we toast to auld lang syne, whatever that
means, and make promises we most likely can’t
keep.
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November 3,2011
As the eulogies ebb for Steve
Jobs, I feel it important that Tech & Learning
join the chorus of remembrances.
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September 30,2011
As I sat down to write this month’s
editor letter, in which I planned to slag on the
tired edtech coverage in the New York Times, an
old phrase kept repeating itself in my head: “the
proof is in the pudding.”
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August 31,2011
Nothing like a “Stop The Presses!”
moment to get those editorial juices flowing.
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August 1,2011
This was one of those years at
ISTE (I have finally stopped calling it NECC)
where the most interesting tech was in the
hands of attendees, not in the exhibition booths.
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June 27,2011
June was a great month to be a geek.
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June 1,2011
Who has the biggest influence
over your career?
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May 1,2011
Two events last month reinforced
my belief that the debate over students
creating versus consuming through technology
is overblown (see our online discussions at
techlearning.com regarding IWBs and iPads).
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April 1,2011
My seven years in the educationtechnology
space isn’t much compared to the
experience of many (you know who you are).
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March 1,2011
New technology is most often
portrayed in the mainstream press as a
bogeyman.
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February 1,2011
Sharp-eyed readers know Tech &
Learning’s cover tagline is “Ideas and Tools for
Edtech Leaders” (Go ahead, turn back. It’s right
there next to the month and year.)
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January 4,2011
It’s only natural, this time of year,
to hear big-picture talk about the state of
technology and pedagogy in school.
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November 1,2010
One of the best parts of this job
is the regular opportunity to sit with some
very smart and influential leaders in public
education.
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October 1,2010
I have used Microsoft Word
since version 5.1 was released in 1992.
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May 1,2009
Now that the euphoria of education’s stimulus windfall has waned slightly, a general sense of confusion and, dare I say, cynicism has begun to creep into the conversation. How is all of this actually going to change the way we
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March 17,2009
Don’t worry. This isn’t some negative trope about “these kids today” with their Facebooks and iPhones. This is about some of your colleagues, who are out of control in the best sense of the phrase. I recently restarted the Tech
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January 30,2009
One of the biggest obstacles to providing amodern and worthwhile experience for students these days isthat most of their teachers are out of touch. Take this soberingstatistic, for example The 2008 National Cybersafety,Cybersecurity, Cyberethics Baseline Study reports that less thanone
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December 29,2008
Even the most cynical, hard bitten, heard itall before edtech integrator (or edtech editor for that matter)had to grin a bit when they heard President elect Obama onYouTube call for “the most sweeping effort to modernize andupgrade school buildings this
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November 15,2008
The future classroom as seen at Techforum
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October 15,2008
editor's desk
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September 18,2008
from Tech&Learning
One of the great things about covering the
education and technology beat is that our readers love to share.
Whether it be a successful instructional technique, a telling anecdote
about a particular student, or a resource found on the Web,
you're always ready to let a colleague in on
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August 18,2008
Business is good for edtech.
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July 21,2008
It's not what you get, it's
what you do with it.
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June 23,2008
from Tech&Learning
Notice anything different? We sure hope so.
Let's start with our name, which lost a few letters. While not the
most radical of changes, we nevertheless took great care before
messing with such a prestigious and longstanding brand. It was
only after taking a rigorous poll of advisors
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May 22,2008
from Technology & Learning
The more you think about it, the more obvious the analogy becomes: Teaching students to be digitally literate is not that different than driver's ed. After all, kids have been in cars all their lives—let's call them auto natives, to be fancy—but we certainly don't just
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April 22,2008
from Technology & Learning
One of the best parts about the business of technology journalism is that there is always something new to write about: some gadget promising to revolutionize or some software ready to reinvent the way we do things. Even stuff now relatively old—remember that "information
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March 15,2008
from Technology & Learning
The sad facts of escalating campus violence and global warming's extreme weather patterns are two reasons every school district should have a solid emergency backup plan.
In this month's cover feature, "Surviving Disasters," author Karen Greenwood Henke talks to district
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February 15,2008
from Technology & Learning
This month we focus on innovative practices taking place in the field with "No Limits". In it, author Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach reviews a range of district, school, and individual initiatives that represent transformative approaches to teaching and learning with technology.
Another
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January 15,2008
from Technology & Learning
In reviewing the past year for this month's cover feature, "Top Ten Tech Trends" we noticed that the trends, at first, seemed a fairly eclectic mix but on closer inspection share a strong thread.
Each trend has to do with communication on some level, whether it be enabling,
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November 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
When Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds, "the father of Linux," was playing with the idea of a mascot for his open source code, he came up with a penguin. His reasoning: "...using something like a penguin gives people the chance to make modifications that are still
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October 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
In this month's issue we examine the evolution of what some of us remember as vocational education. Kids in that "non-academic" track didn't have the luxury of knowing four years of college still buffered them from the sobering world of real work, so the attitudes in those
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September 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
Education is not a business!" begins Michael Simkins in this month's cover feature "Schoolbiz". True, but beyond that, the efficiencies that keep our private sector counterparts up and running can be put to great use in education.
Simkins offers 10 proven practices guaranteed
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August 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
This month, T&L brings you a host of new resources for a brand new school year. Our editorial team has been out and about talking to education publishers at the National Educational Computing Conference (this past June in Atlanta) and at other venues to gather the newest
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June 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
If we can figure out a way to get Paris Hilton associated with education technology, we actually may begin getting the coverage the topic deserves.
In any event, it seems the New York Times agrees, opting to go with the tabloid-style, sensational approach to its coverage. In May's
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May 15,2007
from Technology & Learning
An unmistakably chill wind blew through a room where digital curriculum publishers were lunching during a keynote at the Software and Information Industry Association conference in San Francisco this April.
The featured speaker was Barbara Kurshan, executive director of Curriki,
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April 20,2007
In this month's cover feature, "The One-to-One Tsunami", author Pamela Livingston details the state of one-to-one programs across the country.
Perhaps of greatest note is the significant—yet still fairly quiet—evolution of this trend, which at one time seemed
so far out of reach for all but the most
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March 15,2007
While researching "Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation", it was difficult not to begin thinking in terms of metaphors. The fact that MySpace has come to embody all that is fearful and frightening to many adults about the freedoms of the participatory Web has much to do with that.
It is interesting to
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February 15,2007
In this month's cover feature, "The Case for Open Source," T&L blogger Miguel Guhlin explores the advantages and possibilities of a movement that in the past few years
has increasingly gained momentum in the education space.
Learn how the raw materials provided via open source dovetail with the rise
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January 22,2007
from Technology & Learning
It was encouraging to see a mid-December Time magazine cover feature,"How to Build a Student for the 21st Century," but at the same time a bit dismaying to recognize that American schools being out of step with modern times is still breaking news to the general public. American schools
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November 15,2006
from Technology & Learning
It was an eye-opener interviewing corporate executives for this month's cover feature, "The Workforce Readiness Crisis." As you'll see when you read the piece, the executives were critical of the lack of interpersonal skills of new hires, including the sweeping deficiencies in oral
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November 15,2006
from Technology & Learning
Is Web-based training for improving instruction the right fit for your district?
No Child Left Behind's call for teachers to be "highly qualified" in their subject area, coupled with an increasing variety of online courses on how to teach subjects such as reading, math, and
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October 15,2006
In an era in which the cell phone text message is the new classroom spit wad, it makes sense for educators to explore how the most recent online tools can enable learning rather than distract from it. Thus, in this issue, T&L takes a broad and deep look at Web 2.0 from a variety of perspectives that influence the
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September 15,2006
This month's cover feature, "Stepping Up to AYP," is all about innovative approaches to jogging schools and students out of the failing track. We've revisited this topic on a regular basis over the years, so it was not surprising to find the theme of strong leadership emerging during interviews.
The different twist
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August 15,2006
Product news and trends from the National Educational Computing Conference take center stage in this issue with our comprehensive "New Tools for Schools", which brings you all the latest offerings from education publishers.
Trends this year include more hardware and peripherals, such as the StudentMate from
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July 15,2006
This first annual Funding Handbook addresses what has remained the most important challenge in education technology since the days when computers were "microcomputers" and teachers wrote their own code: finding funding. In 1980, the third edition of the publication now known as Technology & Learning featured a
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June 15,2006
Welcome, administrators. This annual special leadership issue is designed with your particular challenges in mind. To that end, we've crafted the content around the themes of practicality and efficiency.
Increasingly, professional development directors are saying that personal response systems are key to customizing
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May 15,2006
Although NCLB has "shone a spotlight" on professional development, as David Jakes reports in the cover feature "Staff Development 2.0," that light beam has failed to encompass the digital technologies so crucial to being well prepared. Enter the many successful technology-infused educator training practices showcased
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April 15,2006
There was a time when using the words business and education in the same sentence made people pretty uneasy. And when the context suggested any hint of boardroom involvement in curriculum decisions, rightly so. But few would argue this same corporate culture clash applies when it comes to instituting business
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March 15,2006
Once perceived as a simple matter of computer access, the digital divide has evolved into a much more complex affair. Conversations about the divide now include age, income, race, geography, special needs, parental status, hardware, IT, bandwidth, professional development, district size, and more.
In this month's
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February 15,2006
In "Does Technology Pay?," the example Michael Simkins gives of a school making the decision to replace its blackboards with whiteboards and finding itself worse off made me chuckle. Not that blowing your precious technology dollars on a bad investment is funny, but we've all been there.
Yes, over the years it's
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January 15,2006
In an era in which new technologies and information delivery systems are evolving by the day, staying up to date on copyright and fair use regulations can be a real challenge. That's not to mention the additional challenge of making sure district staff — as well as students, parents, and the community at large
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November 15,2005
This month Technology & Learning presents its fifth annual Top Ten cover feature, "Top Ten Wish List." In it, T&L contributors and editors address what respondents to our 25th Anniversary Readership Poll said they'd most like to see in their schools.
You won't find the topics necessarily parallel — the list
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October 15,2005
This month we explore a trend that suddenly seems to be the subject of articles, books, Webcasts, blogs, and conferences everywhere you look. Yes, that would be the g word: games.
Why the focus on games? To quote "Video Games and the Future of Learning," one source for this month's cover feature ("Game Plan"), "Games
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September 15,2005
Dear Readers,
In this 25th anniversary issue, Technology & Learning recognizes more than just a generation of its existence. T&L recognizes, as well, the pioneering first generation of digital technology in schools and the people, products, and initiatives that have shaped it. On both fronts, it's a milestone
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September 15,2005
In celebration of Technology & Learning's 25th
anniversary, this month's cover feature visits the past, present, and
future of technology in education, with an emphasis on the journey that
has lead the industry to where it is today.
For the veterans among you, the timeline of Technology &
Learning cover
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August 15,2005
I remember years when the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) was almost exclusively about hot new software products. There was always a palpable excitement in the air as companies such as Broderbund, Sunburst, Edmark, MECC, and The Learning Company wowed us with offerings that took advantage of the
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June 15,2005
For this year's June Leadership Guide, we've chosen the timely pairing of management and data as our prevailing theme. In fact, the current landscape of top issues in education now all feature data as a central component — its collection, storage, access, analysis, and application. Times have changed, and very
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May 15,2005
In this month's cover feature, "Shaping E-Learning Policy", author Gwen Solomon looks at this swiftly-growing phenomena from a new angle. We know e-learning is here to stay, and we know, for the most part, how it's being put to use to assist students, educators, and parents. But what are the sticky issues we're still
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April 15,2005
Data and student achievement is clearly the bottom line in education under NCLB. And while we may bemoan aspects of its associated mandates-such as the motivation-dampening impact of too much testing-making all this work for kids remains our final challenge. In this month's cover feature, "Data: Maximize Your Mining",
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March 15,2005
In this month's cover feature, "Big Time for Small Schools," page 34, Kim Carter takes us on a journey through a variety of new small schools nationwide, with a particular focus on the individual and distinctive ways each school is seeking to successfully implement reform. With common denominators moving beyond size
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February 15,2005
High stakes tests for students have garnered a very noisy percentage of the dialogue around K-12 education issues in recent years, but surprisingly, when it comes to high stakes issues for educators, things have been pretty quiet. This month's cover feature "Cyber Security: A Survival Guide," by Chris Seiberling, aims
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January 15,2005
Happy New Year from the Technology & Learning team. As with many of you, no doubt, we've made some resolutions for moving forward into 2005. First, in honor of our 25th anniversary-yes, T&L is officially a quarter century old-we'll be devoting each month's Back Page to interviews with those who've significantly
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November 15,2004
With shrinking budgets and increasing demands to track and support student progress, train staff, customize each learner's instructional experience, and keep pace with the newest workplace technologies, the smart allocation of funds is more essential than ever for schools. With that in mind, we have chosen to focus on
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October 15,2004
Back in 2001, when we first took an in-depth look at laptop initiatives for schools ("Laptop Lessons: Exploring the Promise of One—to—One Computing," by Kim Carter, May 2001), it felt as if we were on the verge of the next big breakthrough. As is so often the case with technology, however, the ensuing
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September 15,2004
There has been much written and discussed in the past few years about the critical skills students will need to compete in the global digital workplace. Last October, we reported on a study by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills ("Will Our Students Be Prepared?" by Judy Salpeter, October 2003). This month, our
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August 16,2004
Welcome back to the 2004-2005 school year. In a slightly new take on our usual August "Back-to-School Product Guide," we've expanded coverage this fall to include offerings from hardware companies, as well as software and Web resources. Trends noted in the introduction to the guide include increased options for
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June 15,2004
Dear Readers,
Welcome to Technology & Learning's June Leadership Guide 2004. Now in its 24th year, T&L remains, as ever, a resource serving K-12 educators in the business of managing, teaching, and training with technology. With this annual special end-of-year edition, we forego our regular monthly reviews and
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May 15,2004
In this month's cover feature, "Online Training: What's Really Working," page 32, author Kim Carter examines the latest developments and challenges connected with educating educators via the Web. Perhaps not surprisingly, the pros and cons of this delivery system remain essentially the same as those we flagged for
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April 15,2004
In Technology & Learning's continued spirit of practicality, we bring you this month's cover feature, "Enough to Go Around? Budget and TCO Tool Kit" (page 32) by Todd McIntire. It is truly a sign of the times that funding for technology and related issues is a topic now appropriately addressed in articles on almost
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March 15,2004
"The nation will not continue to lead or to create new jobs if we persist in viewing teaching — the profession that makes all other professions possible — as a second-rate occupation."
— More words from the eminently quotable Lou Gerstner, Jr. (see Trend Watch)
Let's hope that all the commotion
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February 15,2004
It's already two months into 2004 and Technology & Learning is moving forward rapidly — and we hope, nimbly — into this 24th year of our existence. The magazine you hold in your hand today is the product of ongoing interaction among members of our editorial team, our advisory board, and our readers.
In 2003,
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January 15,2004
Outside the Technology & Learning offices, located in the South of Market area of San Francisco, the relative sparseness of both street and foot traffic are daily reminders that in today's job world, change is the operative word. Three years ago, Multimedia Gulch sidewalks were packed, parking lots had jacked up their
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November 24,2003
Besides that it's just plain fun, one of the great things about using digital video as a teaching tool is that it's not subject to the same whimsical, de-flavorizing censorship that textbooks are. Since parents aren't likely to see a textbook reviewed in say, the New York Times, it's probably not common knowledge to
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November 15,2003
Innovation is a word being tossed around an awful lot these days. For a while, we were all being asked to "think outside the box," to divest ourselves of "low-hanging fruit," to deal with it when somebody "moves your cheese." So, it is with some relief that we return to a term that has been in the English language for
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October 15,2003
Last August, The New York Times Op-Ed columnist Bob Herbert wrote a piece entitled "The Kids Left Behind" in which he recounted Bush's campaign behavior, when "hugging kids coast-to-coast," he espoused his dedication to education and improving opportunities for all students. Herbert goes on to detail how Bush's
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October 15,2003
There are only 350,000 elephants left in the world today, and some experts estimate the illegal ivory trade could wipe out what's left of the population in as little as 10 years. Education and activism around this problem is the goal of the International Fund for Animal Welfare's 11th annual Animal Action Week,
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September 15,2003
"Random acts of mass absurdity," "public displays of pure wackiness," "strange antics," "inane activities" — these are just a few of the descriptors the international press is using to define the actions of a "flash mob," the newest tech-enabled craze garnering headlines these days.
In case you're out of the
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August 15,2003
Welcome back to school, all. To kick off the 2003-2004 school year, we bring you up to date on the latest in a variety of areas. In our comprehensive cover feature this month, "Professional Development: 21st Century Models," author Judy Salpeter reports on a number of new technology-infused initiatives in educator
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July 15,2003
Welcome to the premiere issue of Digital Video in the Classroom. This supplement is the result of a collaboration between sister CMP Media publications, DV and Technology & Learning. You've been chosen from our broader subscriber lists to receive this issue because you fit the general demographic of school or district
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