Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Tech Savvy Helps Supes Land Jobs Robert Brumfield, eSchool News April 29, 2005 excerpt: s computers and the internet become increasingly important to both the business and instructional practices of school districts, a growing number of school boards are making…

Paid ‘Product Experts’ Defend Pitches James Bandler, Wall Street Journal/Baltimore Sun April 25, 2005 excerpt: A longstanding principle of journalism holds that reporters cannot have financial relationships with the people or companies they cover. TV shows present these gurus’ recommendations…

Teachers and Students Click on Feedback Method Connie Langland, Philadelphia Inquirer April 21, 2005 excerpt: For a generation of young people who might have held a TV remote before they learned to hold a pencil, the new thing in classrooms…

Critics Diminish Grand Laptop Plan eSchool News April 18, 2005 excerpt: Originally, school district leaders in Cobb County, Ga., wanted to provide a laptop computer to every middle and high school student in the district, which would have made it…

New typeface to help with dyslexia Polly Curtis, The Guardian (UK) April 18, 2005 excerpt: The font was designed by Natascha Frensch from Delft, in the Netherlands. Ms Frensch, who has dyslexia, came up with the idea while studying at…

Video Debates Kim Hackett, Miami Herald-Tribune April 17, 2005 Video teleconferencing has brought the world to North Port, one of the only high schools in the country using the technology to debate. Debate encourages students to go beyond standardized testing…