The do's and don'ts of beefing up your wireless network to handle the bring-your-own-device movement.
A public school in Utah is relying on open educational resources for roughly 90 percent of its instructional content. DeLaina Tonks, director, discusses the school's OER strategies and reveals how the innovative institution works through the challenges associated with open content.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 05/09/12
One method of getting kids to engage reading in different ways is through a tablet-based literature circle. One educator reveals how the process works at her school and why it's effective.
Title I reading specialist Paula Rogers found a way to combine iPads and innovative Flash-based reading sites, which typically aren't compatible with the tablet.
The Safe and Secure Online program, which sends certified information systems security professionals into classrooms to teach students about cyber security, has reached 80,000 children since it launched in 2009.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/18/12
Robotics has become a phenomenon in K-12. Tens of thousands of teams composed of literally hundreds of thousands of K-12 students will compete in robotics events worldwide in 2012 alone. Yet, with all of this activity, robotics programs are only in 10 percent of the schools in the United States.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/17/12
A Minnesota high school with severe budget constraints enlisted YouTube in its successful effort to boost math competency scores.
- By Kathleen Fulton
- 04/11/12
One high school is using text messaging and free cell phones to keep students and teachers in constant contact with each other, and seeing dramatic results.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 04/10/12
Efforts to make "typing" on handheld devices like iPads functional are inspiring new ideas for modifying or replacing the typewriter-inspired keyboard format.
A textbook follows an arduous process to get approval for use in the classroom. So who vets the curriculum when a teacher can simply pluck a learning object off a virtual shelf?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/09/12