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ntel, Microsoft, and Cisco will join forces for a research and development project aimed at improving the overall effectiveness of assessments. According to information released by Intel Tuesday, the three will collaborate in an effort at “transforming global educational assessment and improving learning outcomes.” Read the Full Article
TurningPoint Technologies Announces ResponseWare Application Available on Apple App Store New Mobile Learning Student Response App For iPhone and iPod touch Gets Students Engaged in Active Learning and Provides Educators With Instant AssessmentRead the Full Article
Delivering broadband Internet service to rural and low-income Tennessee residents has its challenges, but a recent report by a group tasked with promoting that delivery shows progress is being made.Read the Full Article
John Kuglin’s background is as eclectic as the 21st century learning skillset he advocates. He’s been an educator since 1971. He’s worked with NASA by way of the Earth Observing System project at the University of Montana. He’s been a vice president at a digital media authoring and production studio (ComChoice, now known as Scope […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Electronic books are the persistent wallflowers of the gadget world. Consumers have snubbed them again and again in favor of a 500-year-old technology: ink printed on paper.Read the Full Article
Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it It works for videos […]
The purpose of this research is to analyze preservice teachers’ use of and reactions to an automated essay scorer used within an online, case-based learning environment called ETIPS. Data analyzed include post-assignment surveys, a user log of students’ actions within the cases, instructor-assigned scores on final essays, and interviews with four selected students. These in-depth […]
NCTI conference urges developers, educators to find tools that ease disabilities–and increase chances for success Read the Full Article
NEW HAVEN — With interest in Arabic far outpacing the number of certified Arabic teachers, it could be tempting for districts to clone the teachers they do have.Read the Full Article
