The Dallas Independent School District is using cloud technology to reduce aggressive behavior and bullying. A new district-wide policy on behavior has administrators looking to technology to make sure one of "most comprehensive anti-bullying policies" in the nation is successful.
Rural schools might have a low student-teacher ratio that urban educators envy, but they usually have fewer resources backing the educational process. One way in which some rural schools are expanding the depth and breadth of their resources is by utilizing cloud computing to tap the expertise readily found in higher education.
A private school in Miami uses is using free technology to bridge geographical gaps between faculty and students.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 10/26/11
The term Web 2.0 has been around a while. Some may even consider it passe. Nevertheless, according to Steve Dembo, there's still something to say about the topic.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/26/11
If humanoid robots are ever to succeed as classroom assistants, they have to be stable, agile, and programmable--but above all, said Bruno Maisonnier, they have to be cute.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/24/11
A private high school in Massachusetts has replaced its traditional library with a collaborative, all-digital facility. The school even pulled the plug on the library's old computer lab, replacing it with a lounge and adding hardware and software support for student mobile devices.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 10/19/11
The summer of 2011 proved to be the busiest of times for school construction of solar energy projects, a growing trend among the nation's school districts to reduce their electricity costs by switching to renewable energy. Thanks to a variety of creative financing options, school districts are discovering that they can install photovoltaic (PV) solar panels that turn sunlight directly into electricity and hedge against rising utility rates without spending any scarce capital.
Educators play a critical role in the development of the essential skills students need to navigate the blizzard of unfiltered information available to them via the Web. Michael Wesch, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, said he believes they should also be fostering something more basic: curiosity and imagination.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/12/11
It's been just a couple of years since the first mobile device hit the market. Yet, it is already a foregone conclusion that it will become an indispensable tool for learning in the future. In the October issue of T.H.E. Journal, we asked a number of educators to let their imaginations go wild and conjure up visions of the future of the mobile device in the classroom.
A hands-on approach to project management has helped one Missouri school district move its campus monitoring from a purely analog, proprietary CCTV system to a centrally managed IP-based system consisting of 480 individual digital cameras.