Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Young adults and minorities are leading a revolution in how Americans use their cell phones, according to a new survey with important implications for education.

People ages 18 to 29 and minorities are more likely to…

Bridget Call’s class at Matewan High School in Charlestown, W.Va., isn’t your ordinary English class. From producing a play about the county’s local history to embracing classic literature, West Virginia’s 2006 Teacher o…

Educators who purchase, use, or create educational content for digital instruction should be aware of an emerging set of standards that are sure to have a profound impact on eLearning.

The Sharable Content Object Refe…

As policy makers intensify scrutiny of the standardized testing industry in the wake of revelations about scoring errors on the October SAT, a high school senior whose SAT was incorrectly scored low is suing the board th…

Seeking to extend its popular video-on-demand product into students’ homes, Discovery Education has announced a new subscription-based learning service, called COSMEO, for students to use outside of the classroom.

Th…

Thanks in part to an enterprising group of faculty who call themselves the iDreamers, Georgia College & State University (GSCU) is quickly becoming a leader in using Apple Computer’s near-ubiquitous iPod to enhance e…

The final day of the Florida Educational Technology Conference, much like the days before it, focused on improving U.S. education in the face of an increasingly global and competitive world.

The day began with keynote…

Blogging, and the easy access to–and exchange of–ideas that it has spawned, is having a “transformative” effect on education, according to the winners of the first-ever eSchool News “Best of the Education Blog” Awards….

Less than two months after President Bush asked Congress to cut more than $3 billion from education in his 2007 budget proposal, U.S. senators have responded by passing a proposal of their own that would restore $1.5 bil…

Dell Inc., the St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS), and the University of Missouri-St. Louis have announced plans to develop a technology-rich high school that reportedly will provide 125 ninth-graders with some of the most …

The maker of the controversial video game is reportedly set to release a new game, , that some officials believe will lead to increased violence on school campuses. The Miami-Dade …

After nearly five years as head of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), former executive director Melinda George has resigned; former deputy director Mary Ann Wolf has been tapped to replace he…

Open-source technologies hold great promise for education–but for this promise to be fully realized, a dramatic shift in thinking must occur, according to representatives from the ed-tech industry, nonprofit organizatio…