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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Cool Tool | Top Hat Monocle
With Apple entering the ‘digital academic learning’ arena, education technology has found a global and mainstream audience overnight. As many of us already know, however, adoption of iTextbooks and the pursuit of a dynamic paperless campus will remain a distant … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Tools
Tagged aggressive edtech startups, Apple, BYOD, college classes, college quizzes, digital academic learning, edtech mainstream, knowledge retention, low cost student clickers, quiz tabulation, SRS, student attentiveness, student clickers, student response platforms, students and technology, tools for professors, Top Hat Monacle
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Dollars & Sense: Funding e-Learning for K-12
GUEST COLUMN | By Renee Patton Unprecedented budget pressures are forcing K-12 schools across the nation to think differently about how to deliver learning and discussions about how to use technology to do this are at the forefront. The good … Continue reading
Posted in Columnists, Trends
Tagged Arne Duncan Connect to Compete, Cisco, Cisco Capital Budget Optimizer, Cisco Education, e-learning, e-rate eligible schools, e-rate provides $2.4 Billion annually to schools, K-12 budget pressures, K-12 technology funding, network infrastructure for schools, Paradise Valley Unified School District, Renee Patton, Rural Utilities Service grants for distance learning, school bonds and modernization
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Cool Tool | ScholarChip School Management App
Tablets and smartphones: why should students have all the fun? Administrators can now download school management apps as part of ScholarChip’s School Safety & Operations System. These apps can be used for classroom attendance and hallway monitoring. Data collected links to a … Continue reading
Interview | Donna Glynn Sells On TeacherPayTeachers
One of the first open marketplaces for lesson plans and other teacher-created materials, TeachersPayTeachers is essentially a very good idea. Founded by Paul Edelman way back, nearly half a century ago in 2006, it was acquired by Scholastic and then … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Baltz Elementary School, Delaware, Donna Glynn, eBay for lesson plans, I Teach Kindergarten conference, kindergarten teachers, National Singapore Math conference, Paul Edelman, Redclay School District, scholastic, teacher content marketplace, teacher created materials, teacherspayteachers, Temple University graduates
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Rocket Fuel for Youth
GUEST COLUMN | by David Neils Authentic student work is ‘rocket fuel’ for our younger generations, says an innovative academic mentoring program’s director. It’s humbling and inspiring to see what happens when teachers and mentors work together to encourage, support, … Continue reading
