Digital Textbook Discussion on NPR's On Point
Hear Education Week's own Katie Ash's take on the evolving industry in a panel discussion featured on NPR's On Point. Read Full Post >
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January 26, 2012
January 04, 2012
Digital Learning Addresses Challenges in K-12 Ed.
The Alliance for Excellent Education has released a follow-up report to look back on how technology is addressing some of education's biggest challenges. Read Full Post >
October 20, 2011
Next Generation Learning Challenges Announces $12M in Grants
Next Generation Learning Challenges has announced it will be giving away a third wave of grants to K-12 and postsecondary institutions totaling $12 million. Funding comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (which also provides funding for Editorial Projects in Education, the publisher of Educa... Read Full Post >
September 22, 2011
Learning Math the Khan Academy Way
The Khan approach emphasizes the use of videos to teach math concepts, with more than 2,400 videos now available. Read Full Post >
April 12, 2011
Dede: Financial Necessity Will Drive Reform
Accepting Dede's assertion that schools are wasteful and impractical, it takes a bit of an ego lowering to drive change from within. Read Full Post >
February 10, 2011
Key Factors to Ed-Tech Success
The Project RED research team recently released a report that identifies best practices for implementing technology in schools. Read Full Post >
January 20, 2011
Jeb Bush Advocates for Tech. in Schools
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to talk about the future of education and technology's role in its eventual transformation. Read Full Post >
July 23, 2009
Cellphones in Classrooms Sparks Debate
A blog discussion between college professors about their dismay over cellphone use in their classes sparks debate about whether the devices are necessary for learning. Read Full Post >
May 13, 2009
Sarcasm for Tech-Hating Teachers
This blog item I found via @berkshirecat, a New England teacher who I follow on Twitter, is a letter to teachers who are loathe to use technology. The writer, Patrick Higgins, makes a snide case for the way technology helps teachers break out of what he implies to be unproductive or counterproduct... Read Full Post >
March 27, 2009
Middle Aged Folks Get Most Screen Time
I don't know if we needed a study to confirm this, but the Council on Research Excellence released survey results this week showing that the youngest of the baby boomers are the biggest consumers of the video media among people age 45 or older. Those boomers ages 45 to 54 appear to be the biggest ... Read Full Post >
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