Blog Juice for Educational Technology

While not comprehensive, this 2006 USAC report, Focusing on Success: Examples of How the Universal Service Fund is Helping Schools and Libraries Around the Country, is designed to show how Universal Service Fund (USF) support for schools and libraries is being used by school districts and libraries around the country….

The Spring 2006 issue of Cable in the Classroom’s Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on New Thinking About High School Reform, produced in partnership with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Contributors include: Paul Curtis, New Technology High Jennifer Dounay, Education Commission of the States Kathleen…

As part of Education Evolving’s larger effort to integrate student opinions with education policymaking, Tech-Savvy Students in Text-Dominated Schools summarizes available literature reporting student attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors when it comes to using digital technology, particularly for learning. It includes students’ ideas for how adult education policy and school designers…

Cable in the Classroom is pleased to announce the opening of the 2006 application process for the presitigous Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards. Open to educators, administrators, community leaders, policymakers—anyone who is transforming education in or out of the classroom, Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards honor individuals whose innovative practices…

As part of the vSKOOL initiative to provide (mostly) online relief to students displaced by the hurricanes of 2005, we recognize that there are some who may be unfamiliar with K-12 student use of technology for learning – and with the specific issues surrounding online learning. To that end, we…

Are you ready for a change of scenery? How about a trip around the world? And all from the comfy convenience of your computer. Set sail in a virtual, around-the-world sailboat race with WINDWARD, Cable in the Classroom’s newest demonstration of the power of broadband for teaching and learning. No…

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

New Effort Launched to Help Displaced Students, Teachers Response Has Been Incredible: More is Needed Washington, DC –VSKOOL.org is a new one-stop resource to match thousands of displaced students, educators, and families affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita with online and other educational technology resources so that learning can continue…

The purpose of the Katrina_EdRelief Yahoo! group is to share information that will enable us — as a community of government leaders, education organizations, corporations, and foundations — to better respond to the short- and long-term educational needs of those displaced. As a community, we share a belief that online…

Just as digital content is making us rethink the textbook, the latest high-tech gadgets will reset our idea of classroom computing. With a little creative thinking, innovative students and teachers can make educational use of the computing power they carry with them. The student backpack of today contains an array…

From Why Rural Matters 2005 comes the following policy recommendation: Distance learning is one strategy that has proven to be effective in ensuring that schools and districts are able to provide rich curricula without restructuring and uprooting students and communities. If rural schools and communities are to take advantage of…

This August 2005 data memo from the Pew Internet American Life Project digs into their recent teen internet use survey and is rife with implications for schools. Among the key findings: 68% of all teen (youth between the ages of 12 and 17) have used the internet at school; This…