After noticing an uptick in ELL and other students with below average reading scores at his school, Skip Johnson, principal at El Crystal Elementary in San Bruno, CA, created a forward-thinking reading program pairing iPods and print books that has helped to successfully boost reading comprehension scores among non proficient readers.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 03/07/12
Cut costs, make the most of your resources, and deliver the best service you can in the midst of the amazing, ever-shrinking IT budget and the worst economic recession in recent history.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/06/12
Safety is the motive behind most school policies regarding filtering and limitations of the internet. But what happens when these policies are proven ineffective, even detrimental, to learning and safety of the students they claim to protect?
While the current high school dropout rate is not the highest it has ever been, many believe the United States is indeed facing a dropout crisis. REL Southwest at Edvance Research looks at research findings and what schools can do to turn the tide.
- By Kathleen A. Barfield, Jennifer Hartman, Dixie Knight
- 03/02/12
This Minnesota high school's planning team started from scratch and created a 21st century facility that turns the traditional classroom model inside out. Instead of waiting for students to come to class, teachers move about the school equipped with their laptops and other teaching tools.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/22/12
Will Google's new privacy policy affect the agreements the company has with K-12 schools? According to Google, the short answer is no, but with a nuance.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/15/12
Designers of the Minnesota School of Environmental Studies (SES) were years ahead of the curve when it came to creating collaborative classrooms that would one day accommodate learning technologies that in 1995 had yet to be conceived
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/08/12
Mobile learning was a cornerstone of the FETC conference in Orlando last month, and the buzz culminated with the conference's closing session: An App Shootout where ed-tech pros Gail Lovely, Hall Davidson, and Jenna Linskens shared some of their favorite apps for Apple devices, which have been compiled here along with helpful tips for getting started.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 02/06/12
Even as YouTube is pushed out of most classrooms because it's deemed distracting, high school algebra teacher Vito Ferrante is committed to the idea that having his students create videos for the site can be a powerful means of engaging them in learning.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 02/06/12
To find out what will be big in e-learning over the next several months THE Journal conferred with several academics and instructional technologists who revealed the following top five trends to watch in the year ahead.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/02/12