Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Meridian Middle School computer Technologies Journal in its current issue asks this question:
Do the teaching-centered blogs of middle grades educators support
reflective practice? That’s the research question examined in this article, Reflection and the Middle School Blogger: Do Blogs Support Reflective Practices?
They examined 12 randomly selected blogs from a pool of 38 teacher-created, teaching-centered blogs. […]

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 […]

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 Reform Studies by US Department of Education:
If our goal is really to provide students with a different kind of education, structured around the provision of challenging tasks that can prepare them for a technology-laden world, the most relevant uses of technology are as tools and communication channels . Giving students experiences in selecting […]

From the Research Paper Series of The Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS)
LeTUS is The Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools, a partnership among Chicago Public Schools, Detroit Public Schools, Northwestern University, and University of Michigan. Funded by National Science Foundation.
Abstract
This paper examines why cognitively oriented technology innovations, designed to […]

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…