Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Link: Committee on Appropriations. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations has recommended that EETT receive no funding in 2007. This can change, but members of Congress need to hear from educators to make it happen. Top level district administrators need to contact members of this committee and let…

Link: Subscribe to GLEF’s Weekly E-Newsletters. They’ve been very busy lately at edutopia. In addition to the two e-newsletters I mentioned in my previous post, two more are now on offer, bringing the total to five. The latest additions are:1. Social and Emotion Learning2. Assessment Again, each free weekly e-newsletter…

Link: Subscribe to GLEF’s Weekly E-Newsletters. Edutopia recently announced two new free weekly e-newsletters. In addition to Edutopia News, educators may now also subscribe to Project-Based Learning and Technology Integration. The Project-Based Learning e-newsletter will offer articles on student-initiated projects along with related news and resources. Technology Integration will feature…

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…

Link: Raytheon Company: About Us: MathMovesU. The Raytheon Company recently released a report on a survey of students in grades 6-8. One result has gotten a great deal of press, particularly following the State of the Union address where the President suggested we needed to bolster math and science education….

Here’s an interesting article from Diane Ravitch on how Bill Gates, and the Gates Foundation, can really be of help with the schools. Her suggestion is an intriguing notion? Thoughts / reactions?…

Ever read an email and been hurt by something in the message only to find out the writer didn’t have that intent? Or discovered that your message had unintended negative effects? Lena Winerman of the APA Monitor has a column out on the research of psychologist Justin Kruger and Nicholas…

Here is an op-ed piece from the Denver Post Tuesday October 25, 2005 edition. Columnist Diane Carman hits just about every issue from data, NCLB, and the digital divide in this article with a Colorado theme. Full article: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3148204…

Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat is all about what is happening now that the digital revolution has made it possible to work instantaneously with people on the other side of the world. One of these possibilities is posted at Wired Newsand describesthe link between 12-year-old Princeton in Glenview,…

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…

Last spring the New Media Consortium (working with Adobe Systems and the George Lucas Foundation) convened a summit to discuss 21st century literacy and how to expand use of these skills in K-12 and post secondary education. As a result of this meeting, a report entitled A Global Imperative: The…

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