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The Educational Technology News Blog will be on a break (maternity leave!) for the next couple of weeks. We look forward to getting back in the swing of things soon and keeping you informed of the latest in educational technology…

Ed ‘visionaries’: Schools Must Change Robert Brumfield, eSchool News May 24, 2005 excerpt: Susan Patrick, the director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education, began the talks with a now-familiar stump speech cataloging some alarming statistics: Only 68…

Michigan Rethinks Laptop Giveaway Program Megan Dwyer, IT&T News/The Heartland Institute June 1, 2005 excerpt: Computer network configurations can vary between districts and even between schools. Connecting dozens of laptops to a schoolÂ’s network is not as simple as plugging…

U of Maine To Require iBooks For Teachers-To-Be Peter Cohen, MacWorld May 11, 2005 excerpt: The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced plans to require students working towards Maine teacher certification to have Apple iBooks….

Making a Play to Bring Diversity to Video Games Abigail Tucker and Rasheim Freeman, Baltimore Sun May 18, 2005 excerpt: Nonetheless, though most modern games are three-dimensional, their portrayals of race are often one-dimensional. Part of the problem, industry experts…

Glitches in School Laptop Initiative Walter Dawkins, NorthJersey.com May 17, 2005 excerpt: Last fall, the Pascack Valley Regional High School District became the first - and is still the only district in the state - to issue a laptop computer…

Technology Counts 2005: Electronic Transfer Education Week May 5, 2005 excerpt: Underlying the trend is a major philosophical shift in the White House concerning the role of technology in education. During the Clinton administration, federal leaders largely viewed technology as…

How To Make Microsoft Unhappy: Open-Source Software for Schools London News Review May 9, 2005 excerpt: It all seems so obvious. But the penny seems finally to have dropped: the Government has been advised that if schools started using free…

Teachers Look to Computers to Critique Student Essays Matt Sedensky, Associated Press/St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch May 1, 2005 excerpt: Work to automate analysis of the written word dates back to the 1950s, when such technology was used largely to adjust…

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…