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Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.The New York TimesFull Article
With Apple’s Wednesday introduction of the third-generation iPad, many of the questions people and pundits have spent the past few months obsessing over have been answered—but not all. We know it has a nicer screen, a faster processor, better cameras, 4G networking, and voice dictation. But even if you’ve read our live blog, chances are […]
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With a bank of 40,000 educational apps that have been cataloged, reviewed, and approved, a Tennessee initiative hopes to make it easier for educators to use apps in the classroom and beyond. Campus TechnologyFull Article
Atlanta — Higher education’s spin on the Silicon Valley garage. That was the vision laid out in September, when the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new lab for disruptive ideas, the Center for 21st Century Universities. During a visit to Atlanta last week, I checked in to see how things were going, sitting down […]
Education stakeholders often ask for research to justify ed-tech purchases. But instead of using research to rationalize a large-scale, expensive purchase, school leaders first should identify the problem for which they believe technology is the answer, according to an expert panel at the Consortium for School Networking’s 2012 Technology Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.eSchool News […]
This paper presents the design and application of a major individual assessment task created in part to develop students’ capacity for lifelong assessment, a key element of lifelong learning. Additionally the task contributes to fostering a sense of community in asynchronous online learning environments. The task is a supra disciplinary report, recently trialled and now […]
The Paradise Valley Unified School District could bring in tens of thousands of dollars from sharing its distance-learning programs.The governing board recently approved an intergovernmental agreement with other districts and charters interested in “any and all new distance-learning programs that exist now and/or have been planned for the future,” said Michael Linn, Paradise Valley’s assistant […]
Desta tries to change destinies; At-home study with mentoring helps marginalized youth return to schoolTwo years ago, Latishia Barksdale dropped out of high school at age 17 and faced an uncertain future.Before quitting, Barksdale was failing miserably in math and science. She couldn’t get the extra help she needed and was too embarrassed to ask […]
As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of charge online, new efforts are helping classroom teachers find and use these resources as quickly and efficiently as possible.eSchool NewsFull Article