Tweet This is the information age. The Web is a fast track to continuous volumes of information. When your students type a few search terms in Google’s search bar and click enter, the biggest hurdle is not the amount of information that appears in their search results. Instead, the biggest hurdle is sifting through the Read more »
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What Are the Ingredients of Learning?
April 5th, 2011
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Tweet In his State of the Union address last January, President Barack Obama put education at the top of the agenda. These themes for education reform and change have rippled through the nation with his recent campaigns for the Race to the Top.1 There’s a great deal of talk about technology integration, 21st century skills, Read more »
Anchor Students’ Learning Before Winter Break
December 7th, 2010
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Tweet Winter break is just two weeks away for many school districts. From now until the bell rings in mid-December, you may find your students restless and daydreaming about sleeping in, playing in the snow or enjoying a homework-free couple of weeks. Educators often say that the biggest challenge at this time of the year Read more »
Reach Beyond the Classroom
November 23rd, 2010
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Tweet Can you envision a classroom in ten years or picture the future of students’ learning and homework? Presently, technology has expanded the reach of education and begun redefining the classroom experience while reshaping the way students today do their homework. Before, a teacher’s impact was only between the hours of a school day. Students Read more »
Tools to Teach Paperless
November 16th, 2010
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Tweet One hundred acres of rainforest are cut down each minute to help fuel our 85 million tons of annual paper consumption in the United States. This equates to each American using about a single 100-foot Douglas fir tree every year in paper products.1 These products include the notebooks, handouts, books, printed documents and more Read more »
Collaboration on the Forefront of K-12 Technology
November 2nd, 2010
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Tweet Technology in the last five to ten years has dramatically affected the way we communicate and collaborate. Students today, who are the digital natives of our world, communicate naturally through programs on computers and applications on mobile devices. Between texting, social networks and email, students understand that our world collaborates and communicates via technology Read more »
