Blog Juice for Educational Technology

»  Thank you for your interest in the Intel Education “An Innovation Odyssey” featured stories of technology adaptation in the classroom. We have discontinued this service. The Odyssey stories and a number of other teacher tools and resources are available on Intel’s website at: http://www.intel.com/education/k12education. # 0

» STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania Legend has it that William Tell’s archery skills were so polished he was able to shoot an apple off of his son’s head in one swift, fine-tuned shot.  # 0

» LEXINGTON, Kentucky In the Bluegrass State, renowned for its fleet-footed thoroughbreds, it’s fitting that Kara Price would design a project for her third-graders focusing on the fastest humans on snow and ice. # 0

» MONTCLAIR, New Jersey Understanding Greco-Roman art has taken a modern twist at Mt. Hebron Middle School, where students not only act as museum curators but also create the “ancient” artifacts on display. # 0

» LIMA, Peru Integrating technology into early elementary grade projects can be challenging, says John Lakatos, a teacher and the lead technologist at Franklin Delano Roosevelt American School in Lima, Peru. # 0

» AUCKLAND, New Zealand There’s seldom a dull moment in Mayada Ghanim’s physics classes at Corran School, an independent school for girls in the Remuera district of Auckland. Weights drop from high places. Picket fences… # 0

» HAIFA, Israel Learning to love physics doesn’t come naturally to all teenagers. Hands-on, discovery learning can help students gain a deeper understanding of key concepts, but teachers often find that setting up… # 0

» NASHVILLE, Tennessee In a challenging course like accelerated physics, high school students know that keeping an accurate record of their data is a key to successfully completing a lab. # 0

» ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Putting her students on “the path of learning” is the goal of Assiya Haroon, who teaches secondary students attending Bahria College in Islamabad. She teaches in the girls’ wing of the school. # 0

» LYNDEN, Washington Never underestimate the value of an unexpected outcome. That’s not a rule you’ll find in any physics textbook, but it’s a lesson that longtime science teacher Don McQuarrie has taken to heart. # 0