Blog Juice for Educational Technology

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…

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?…

Schools and districts are required, both legally and professionally / ethically / morally, to monitor employee and student use of technology tools when those tools are used for professional or instructional purposes. School organizations that don’t must face the legal and public relations ramifications of ignoring potential employee / student…

From Converge Online, an article about integrating technology into music class. It gives examples of what teachers are doing and then reviews several music programs. This article is the second in a series of articles on using technology in what Converge calls the waning subjects, those most often subject to…

The cover story for the latest issue of edutopia, Synching Up with the iKid, takes another look at the need for educators to better understand today’s digital learner. In additional to the usual rhetoric, the article also provides specific examples of what some teachers are doing to bridge this ever-increasing…

From Why Rural Matters 2005 comes the following policy recommendation: Distance learning is one strategy that has proven to be effective in ensuring that schools and districts are able to provide rich curricula without restructuring and uprooting students and communities. If rural schools and communities are to take advantage of…

This August 2005 data memo from the Pew Internet American Life Project digs into their recent teen internet use survey and is rife with implications for schools. Among the key findings: 68% of all teen (youth between the ages of 12 and 17) have used the internet at school; This…

Outside of School, Teens Forge Forward with the Internet and Other New Technologies The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online. Compared to four years ago, teens’ use of the…

A group of Apple Distinguished Educators has created a 1:1 Research Database to facilitate the collection and sharing, in as comprehensive and up-to-date a manner as possible, all of the research presently available related to 1:1 computing initiatives. Visitors are able to search, view, and/or contribute to the contents of…

An Arizona high school is set to become one of the first ebook-only schools, as it preps to hand out laptops to 350 students this fall. The cost for the laptops at Vail High School will be about $850 per student, compared to about $600 for textbooks. The school…

From Converge: Reading, Writing and … RIP Routing Protocols? My, How the ‘Three Rs’ Have Changed. "Just two decades ago, the cliche was for students in school to bring Apples to their teachers; these days, they might do just as well to bring PCs. This would certainly be the case…