BYOD programs are only as good as the use teachers make of them. One school's director of IT explores how teachers in a variety of subjects are incorporating student devices into their lessons during a comprehensive school-wide pilot.
Educators need to do a better job of explaining to the public what effective education really looks like.
- By Therese Mageau
- 02/06/13
The recent, promising events around working conditions in Apple's factories are hopefully leading toward a new definition of "shareholder value."
- By Therese Mageau
- 03/09/12
A new federally authorized test of students' technology literacy has little in sync with the tech curriculum schools are teaching.
- By Geoffrey H. Fletcher
- 09/09/09
It seems appropriate that in our first column for T.H.E. Journal's K-12 Mobile Classroom Newsletter we should lay out the path to the Holy Grail of K-12: increased (if not dramatically increased) student achievement. While we might be wearing rose colored contact lenses, here's the trajectory that we see actually happening over the next few years that will get K-12 to the Holy Grail:
- By Elliot Soloway, Cathie Norris
- 01/09/13
Pritchardville Elementary has built parent engagement on three pillars: consistency, frequency and accessibility.
A Silicon Valley library’s quest to ignite innovation.
- By Parker Thomas, Cindy Chadwick
- 12/11/19
A 50-year veteran of psychometrics — the science of measuring mental abilities and processes — offers a brief history and insights into the future of testing.
Students today need to understand not only how to code online, but also how computer science and coding connect to the tangible objects in the world around them.
- By Jenny Nash, Leanna Prater
- 12/05/19
What interoperability means for learning environments.
- By Keith R. Krueger, Paula Maylahn
- 12/03/19