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Technology News Ed. Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Education Week: Casey Wardynski knew his district had to make a change when he glanced at its crop of history textbooks and spotted one glaring omission.


Technology News Children's Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Education Week: Preschools and kindergartens long have taught children "task skills," such as cutting paper and coloring inside the lines. But new research suggests the spatial and fine-motor skills learned in kindergarten and preschool not only ...


Technology News Here’s how to Scale School Innovation
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

eSchool News: In a new TED talk, Adam Frankel, creator of Digital Promise, discusses how technology can help scale-up personalized learning and scale school innovation.


Technology News Report: 85 Percent of Institutions Allow BYOD
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

THE Journal: Eighty-five percent of educational institutions allow instructors or students to use their own devices on institutional networks according to a new survey from Bradford Networks.


Technology News Windows XP Deadline Puts Pressure on Schools
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Education Week: Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows XP, believed to be the dominant computer operating system in K-12 education, could pose big technological and financial challenges for districts nationwide—issues that many school systems...


Technology News Pilot Hopes to Draw Students to Computer
Monday, May 20th, 2013

eSchool News: Students in Mike Reilly’s computer programming classes could be helping to bust the stereotype of the computer nerd hunched over a keyboard, writing programs that crunch numbers and sort lists.


Technology News Tests in Works for Students With Severe
Monday, May 20th, 2013

Education Week: Mary Skinner-Alexander, a high school special education teacher in the Sioux Falls, S.D., district, has a student who communicates by directing his gaze at printed cards. Other students in her self-contained special education class...


Reports News Report: Early Childhood Teacher Evaluations Must
Monday, May 20th, 2013

THE Journal: Given the unique challenges faced by preK-3 teachers, teacher effectiveness at those levels should not be evaluated on student reading and math achievement alone but should also account for how young children actually learn, according to...


Technology News Principal: Educator Evaluation System Unethical
Monday, May 20th, 2013

Washington Post: A few years ago, a student at my high school was having a terrible time passing one of the exams needed to earn a Regents Diploma. She took the test several times, but despite her very best efforts and the best efforts of her teachers...


Technology News Best Crowdsourced iOS Apps
Friday, May 17th, 2013

Edudemic: We’re proud to introduce you to a new set of resources we think you’ll enjoy. It’s a curated list of the best education technology resources. But it’s not just organized by us. It’s now YOUR turn to share, vote up, and learn about all.


Technology News Five Ways Teachers Can Use Technology to Help
Friday, May 17th, 2013

Huffington Post: Thomas Edison once said, "Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools... our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years." Amazingly enough, however, one of our nation's most important inventors was proven quite...


Technology News 15 Education Leaders to Follow on Twitter
Friday, May 17th, 2013

eSchool News: One of the fastest ways to get breaking news, and one of the best platforms for instant networking, is Twitter. Twitter is replete with people who love to discuss education, technology, and current events.


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