Blog Juice for Educational Technology

What is WWWEDU?
WWWEDU (The World Wide Web in Education List) is a moderated list coordinated by Andy Carvin at the EDC Center for Media & Community. WWWEDU offers educators, students, webmasters, policy makers, parents, and Internet users in general a continuous discussion on the role of World Wide Web use in […]

Excerpt from an article by Patty Miller of the Edmond Sun:
Computer software technology that started out as a popular “learn-to-sing tool” is now creating a great new harmony in other areas of education. “Unintended consequences” is the term given by Chief Operating Officer Ken Speigel of the higher literacy and reading scores that have […]

In ASC Online, Anita writes:
Trying to teach about metadata and cataloging is not the easiest thing in the world especially if the channels of communication/dissemination are limited to online text. Blog Juice for Educational Technology - one of the RSS feed aggregators Joe Schwoebel runs (another one is Syndication for Librarians) - is currently posting […]

In this post, David Warlick poses the question:
“How might we use tagging to form specified conversations among specified audiences such that the conversation can adapt to changes in conditions — so that the conversation can grow beyond the group when needed and close down to the group when appropriate?”
It’s a challenging question if considered […]

Excerpt from Governor Rendell’s budget presentation to Pennsylvania Legislature on February 6, 2006 :

From the first day of pre-kindergarten to the moment when our students receive their college diplomas, it is up to the Commonwealth’s education system to prepare every student for the high-skill jobs of the global economy. The 2006-07 budget builds on Pennsylvania’s […]

From New York Times Article of August 3, 2005, Packing for the Net Generation
By John Schwartz
What were once novelties in the dorm and classroom have become essentials: laptops are increasingly more common in lecture halls, as is the ability to get on the Internet through a wireless connection - to find course materials during class, […]

From Ed.gov Extra Credit Article
By Ray Simon [Deputy Secretary, US Department of Education]
“Gauge Dropouts By Computers, Not Slide Rules”

How can a nation that invented the light bulb, created vaccines to eradicate polio, put a man on the moon and conceived the Internet not have a good handle on how many of its students drop out […]

From Educause Review, May/June 2005, Volume 40, Number 3

From Article, ” The Space Between: Creating a Context for Learning”
By J. C. Herz
We’re in a very strange sort of flux right now, with technology and education and information and the way people learn. As in the Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times,â€? the present […]

From Educause Review, July/August 2005, Volume 40, Number 4

The following is an excerpt from the article, “Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box”
By Phillip D. Long and Stephen C. Erhmann
Future classrooms should support the activities of effective learning: that is, situated, collaborative, and active learning.
What might such spaces look like? Do […]

From Educause Review, July,August 2005, Volume 40, Number 5

A few years ago, college and university presidents often remarked: “We’re going to develop an e-learning program. The train is leaving the station. We’ve got to be on it.â€? In those years of hype and hyperbole, many felt that millions of dollars could be made by putting […]

From National School Boards Association, Issues and Answers (July 2005)
Florida Virtual School, which started in 1997 and enrolled about 33,000 students statewide in 2004-05, mirrors a national trend in which a growing number of students are plugging into cyberlearning. According to a March report by the National Center for Educational Statistics, an estimated 328,000 students […]

From the American School Board Journal, July 2005
Because virtual schools are still relatively new, evidence on whether online education is improving student achievement is just beginning to be collected. Anecdotally, students and teachers say they are excited about the opportunities this new form of education provides.
Little data exists, however, for school board members and administrators […]

From CNET News.com Article of July 11, 2005
A few hundred Arizona high school students can cross books off their fall back-to-school lists. The Vail Unified School District outside Tucson is getting ready to open the doors of the state’s first all-wireless, all-laptop high school. There, students will use electronic and online articles as part of […]