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Urging the presidential candidates to make K-12 student access to education technology and modern learning environments a top national priority, leading education association have launched a public service announcement campaign titled One Giant Leap for Kids.
NECC is hosting a Ning, a social networking site designed to inform educators about the conference and to provide an experience with this web 2.0 technology.
Rural areas are among the last to get affordable broadband, an essential tool for schools and business. In Carter County, TN, at the foothills of the Appalachians, a proactive community is working to put the resource in place.
Destination Imagination recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of encouraging the 21st Century skills of creative thinking, teamwork, self confidence, mutual respect, research, innovation and leadership.
“Data can be used as a hammer or a flashlight,” says Dr. Laura Schwalm, superintendent of the award-winning Garden Grove Unified School District in Southern California.
New offerings from NASA help students to learn about thermal protection systems, thrust structures and defining what defines a planet
A new, free offering from Google allows small web sites to easily add social networking features.
Curriki, the free curriculum wiki, is paying contributors to grow their content this summer.
New York City Public schools have been battling a ban on cell phones since 2005. Entering a new chapter of that controversy, the state Appellate Court has ruled that the Department of Education has the right to enforce the ban.
Abstract equations may be the best way to learn math, and the familiar word problems of traveling trains or Sally's apples might be mere distraction.
An assessment of critical thinking skills for grades 10 and above is now available online.
Logging on to their blog, nearly three dozen ESL students at Luther Burbank High School (Sacramento, CA) check-in with friends around the globe.
Teaching with primary souces can be amazing but also a bit daunting to sort through and use effectively. Help is available online.
Employers and superintendents agree that creativity is increasingly important in the workforce, but district curriculums or corporate training programs rarely foster such skills.
With the goal of preparing today's students to compete globally in the 21st century, Nortel LearniT and Curriki are combining their websites into one of the world's largest, free online sources of educational materials.
Schools and libraries are able to benefit from the E-rate program sooner than in years past.
The key industry association for software and information businesses has launched a program and related survey to help educators integrate 21st century learning into day-to-day instruction.
Washington state's leaders, unwilling to pay $47 million for one year of testing, have asked for cost-saving changes to the assessment program. Cutting open-ended responses is the favored choice.
Self-regulation may not be the language used when people list 21st Century Skills, but it is clearly a part of the portfolio. Old fashioned play, says Howard Chudacoff, a cultural historian at Brown University, is central to building this essential ability.
STEM educators look for classroom resources that can motivate students to apply science and math concepts to real world problems and spark an interest in pursuing a career in science or engineering.
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has proposed a "Seniors to Sophomores Initiative" that would allow every twelfth grader who meets the academic requirements a choice of spending their senior year in their home high school, or spending it with a University System of Ohio campus.
Predictive text is creating a new language among UK youth. Don't want to key-in the entire word?
"Too few students are leaving the K-12 system ready for college and the global economy, yet the public appears to fear an overemphasis on test scores and a decrease in attention paid to the whole child."
UNESCO (the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has published guidelines for teachers's use of information communication technology (ICT) to improve education.
Calling for pay for performance, accountability, innovation, smaller schools, and expanded learning for a 21st century education, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has issued its 2008 agenda for education and training.
Parents and librarians in the state of Washington are mobilizing to ensure that children learn how to find and use the information they need.
Students who learn that their intelligence can grow as synapses form do better in school.
Cyber University of Japan is offering a class via mobile phones.
Go online to find an archive of a recent webcast featuring representatives of the International Society for Technology in Education, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the U.S. Department of Education, and two state departments of education.
Hoping to showcase how teachers should use technology in their classrooms definitively, the Indiana University's education school has received $3.1 million in federal funding.
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