Textbooks give way to digital curriculum
The march from textbooks to computerized content began to look a little more inevitable this week as educators in Arizona and Tennessee edged closer to the all-digital curriculum.Read the Full Story
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How technology may help shape the future of education
A novel learning platform that uses a variety of mature technologies to support and expand teaching practices has recently completed testing, proving popular among high school students and teachers.Read the Full Story
NOVA Online Examines the One-Hundred Year History of the World-Famous Equation E=MC2 on PBS.ORG
Site features audio clips from ten of the world’s top physicists describing the equation, and an exclusive video clip from the television program http://www.pbs.org/nova/einstein. “Einstein’s Big Idea” airs on NOVA Tuesday, October 11, 2005 from 8-10PM ET on PBS, check local listings. Press materials can be found at pressroom.wgbh.org/nova or pbs.org/pressroom.Read the Full Story
University of Miami Online High School Student Wins Junior Doubles at Wimbledon
WESTON, Fla., July 12 /PRNewswire/ — When Jesse Levine turns in his “What I Did This Summer” essay to his high school journalism teacher, it’s bound to impress. The rising Boca Raton tennis star won the Wimbledon Junior Doubles Championship earlier this month at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Jesse, 17, is a senior […]
CEA’s (Consumer Electronics Association) Shapiro Testifies On the Need For A Hard Deadline For Analog Termination
Arlington, Virginia 7/12/2005“A hard deadline to end analog television broadcasts will bring needed certainty to the DTV transition,” said Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in testimony delivered today before a congressional committee. Shapiro made his comments before a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee examining the transition to digital television […]
uCertify Launches Exam Simulation on the new Network+ Exam N10-003
uCertify (July 11, 2005) uCertify, a leading provider of IT Certification exam preparation solutions, has announced to launch ExamSimulation PrepKit for the latest CompTIA Network+ certification exam – N10-003. The new PrepKit has been developed strictly according to the new exam objectives and provides the candidates adequate resources for the preparation of the new Network+ […]
Survey of Web–based educational resources in selected U.S. art museums
AbstractArt museums in the United States share a common mission to educate many people — from families to teachers to researchers. But how do these museums use the World Wide Web to extend their educational mission? More specifically, what kinds of educational materials do U.S. art museums offer to online visitors, and how broadly available […]
Online option gains favor for summer school credits
The air in Elyse Stoll’s algebra class last week was hot and humid – more conducive to napping, she said, than learning.Read the Full Story
If You Build It, We Should Come, continued
Consultants play an important role in most new construction or renovation projects. Most architecture and engineering firms cannot afford to maintain full-time specialists in technology design areas such as multimedia, cabling, networking, telephony, and wireless.Read the Full Story
Statement of Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause
One would expect that the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, testifying before a Senate subcommittee considering the CPB’s 2006 budget, would focus on the reasons for supporting its full budget allocation, rather than assailing the “bias” of a journalist who no longer moderates the news program with which Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson seems obsessed.Read […]