News & Issues
While IT expenditures is expected to increase worldwide this year, forecasts are being revised downward. The Eurozone crisis and flooding in Thailand, a major hard-drive manufacturing hub, have put a damper on original projections for global information technology spending in 2012. MoreSamsung Mobile, BrainPOP, Turning Technologies, and the Turning Foundation have collaborated to offer educational technology grants totaling $36,000 for K-12 classrooms. MoreDiscovery Education and CDW Government have launched the Win a Wireless Lab Sweepstakes to give schools a chance to acquire new technology for their district. MoreMore than 500 middle school, high school, and college students will test their rocket prowess as part of a special NASA program. More
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Education Division has selected its board of directors for 2012. MoreCobb County School District, the second largest school district in Georgia, will implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to streamline services and increase data security. MorePearson has added a set of instructional videos to its teacher professional development offerings based on contents from The Skillful Teacher, a popular series of textbooks on K-12 teaching pedagogy, from Research for Better Teaching. MoreTeachers and students will soon have a new tool for navigating the world of classroom software applications with the upcoming release of Teaching and Learning with Microsoft Office 2010 and Office 2011 for Mac. MoreSchool Improvement Network, which sells a video-based professional development service for teachers, has added an e-portfolio feature to its product that enables users to create, share, and track implementation of their individual professional learning plans. MoreScannx will integrate ABBYY's FineReader Engine 10 Professional into the capture software for its Book ScanCenters. More
Professional Resources
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How to Detect and Respond to Individual Student Needs
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