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Technology Solutions That Work (TSW) Database from Metiri Group is a subscription-based collection of research that provides an indepth, unbiased analysis of education technologies. The database also provides a range of technology-based learning strategies along with a summary of all of the Metiri studies conducted to date. Several States have…

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…

The $100 Laptop web site now has a list of FAQs. Responses are from Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MITs Media Lab. Two samples: Why do children in developing nations need laptops?Laptops are both a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to…

MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte and associates continue to stay on course to provide a $100 laptop to the world’s children. Here’s the latest: The first prototype will be shown on November 17 at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. By 2007, the target is to be shipping 150…

Just as digital content is making us rethink the textbook, the latest high-tech gadgets will reset our idea of classroom computing. With a little creative thinking, innovative students and teachers can make educational use of the computing power they carry with them. The student backpack of today contains an array…

Link: Innovate - August/September 2005 Volume 1, Issue 6. In this special issue of Innovate, they focus on the role of video game technology in current and future educational settings. Included are articles about What an art instructional video game would look like How video games might be integrated in…

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…

Supporters of Michigan’s one-to-one computing project are citing marked improvements in standardized test scores in reading, writing, science, and math as reasons to restore funding to the program. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, had eliminated most of the program’s funding from the budget she proposed to state law makers….

Schools across the country are realizing tremendous success with laptop initiatives. In response to the need for a comprehensive resource about one-to-one computing, the Center for Digital Education has aggregated a handbook of information covering learning in the 21st century, definitions and guidelines for successful initiatives, leadership strategies and financing…

In schools, the hottest tech tools today are interactive white boards, which have spread to more than 150,000 U.S. classrooms and are used in 75 countries. Teachers say the boards are great for motivating kids and helping them boost their computer skills. Wired …

MIT’s $100 laptop initiative launched a website on March 5, 2005. The site brings together all the current news on the project in a Q & A format. A sample: What can a $1000 laptop do that the $100 version can’t?Not much. The plan is for the $100 Laptop to…

Wired News has a piece profiling the use of interactive whiteboards at Columbia University’s privately-run elementary school. Presenting a utopian view of this technology, the article quotes Nancy Knowlton, president of Smart Technologies, the leading manufacturer of interactive whiteboards: "My speculation is over the next three to five years you’ll…