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Web 2.0 Strategies for Education

7/7/2010

Focus

Social Networking To Save At-Risk Students
As graduation success coordinator for Everett School District in Everett, WA, Maria Brennan has used a combination of traditional methods and high-tech approaches to help improve graduation rates for the district's four high schools.
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News

Report: Online Learning Nearly Doubles Among High School Students
The percentage of high school students taking online courses nearly doubled in a single year. According to the latest data available from Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up Survey, more than one-quarter (27 percent) of all high school students took at least one class online last year, up from 14 percent the year before. But the numbers could have been higher, according to the researchers.
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Students Not Being Encouraged To Use Technology
Students insist that technology is important to them them now and will be in their future, and about half think their schools are preparing them adequately for college and career; but, according to a new report released Monday at the ISTE 2010 conference in Denver, CO, schools are still in need of some improvements.
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Local Library Takes Math Gaming Beyond the Classroom
Florida's Broward County Public Schools had already rolled out educational math gaming to its middle schoolers and had even gone so far as to host two 24-school math tournaments throughout the county this last May and the previous May. Now a local Broward County library, Pembroke Pines Library, is extending the educational gaming challenge further.
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Centricity Expands Collaborative Tools
Schoolwires has released Centricity², an update to the company's Web platform designed for K-12 institutions. The new version adds a range of collaborative technologies, developer resources, management tools, and integration features.
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Kansas District Expands Virtual Learning Beyond Middle School
K12 Inc. and Lawrence Public Schools launched a new virtual high school program serving Kansas students in grades 9 and 10.
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Online Credit Recovery Program Helps Chicago Area Students Graduate on Schedule
More than 1,000 students of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), each previously lagging in one or more course credits necessary for graduation, will now receive their diplomas along with the rest of the Class of 2010.
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New York Elementary Schools Adopting Digital Curriculum
Twenty-one elementary schools in New York are adopting digital curricula for the 2010-2011 school year. Beginning this fall, these schools will start shifting to a digital platform for math and reading designed for 1:1 classroom environments.
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2 North Carolina Counties Roll Out Online Gaming for Mastery of State Standards
North Carolina districts Pitt County Schools (PCS) and Alamance-Burlington School System (ABSS) have both chosen to implement the Study Island suite of online education tools from Archipelago Learning throughout their respective districts.
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Arizona State Launching Online Credential for Online Teaching
Arizona State University has expanded its online degree and certification programs for PK-12 teachers, including the addition of a new credential for online teaching. Tuition will be the same whether the student is in state or out of state.
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ISTE Launches Professional Development Site for Ed Tech at Annual Conference
At its annual conference this week in Denver, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) launched ISTE Learning, its own professional development Web site for the entire spectrum of education technology.
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Collaboration 2.0 focuses on the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education and provides information on the latest technologies and advances in these technologies. It includes case studies of successful implementations, feature articles on trends in collaborative technologies, profiles of champions of Web 2.0 at the district and school levels, pedagogy and tips on the effective use of collaborative technologies by experts, and news on new products and implementations. Published monthly, 3rd Wednesday of each month in HTML format.

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