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These are the most recent articles mentioning "education"
Posted 03/23/08, 09:53
When educators ask me what tool I would recommend as an entry point to using Web 2.0 in education, I usually suggest wikis as a quick way to get started. WikiWiki is the Hawaiian term for quick and you cant get much quicker than a wiki when trying to publish content to the world wide web. ...
Posted 02/28/08, 08:10
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udents felt it was worthy to be used and they KNEW how to use it.Download the Free Software for Schools catalog at National Center for Open Source in Education or check out sites like http://www.opensourcewindows.org/ for Windows specific versions of open source software.Commercial ProductWeb basedO...
Posted 01/30/08, 20:41
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guide, I thought back to the recent conversation responding to Will Richardsons Some New Year's Dreaming post, debating whether whether a change in education could come about by evolution, or whether revolution was the only hope for transforming our schools.These thoughts were the perfect launchin...
Posted 01/11/08, 10:57
There's an interesting change afoot, and it relates to the use of social networking in education.MySpace and Facebook are just two examples of social networking sites, but unfortunately, their early prominence has created a stigma around social networking that the technology itself doesn't deserve. ...
Posted 03/01/08, 22:03
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d social entrepreneurs like Jim Fruchterman from the nonprofit technology company, Benetech. Recently, Benetech was selected by the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education to provide access for every student with a print disability in the United States via Bookshare....
Posted 12/31/07, 19:28
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they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won. Although I work with many creative and innovative teachers, capital E Education doesnt seem to get that the last couple years has witnessed a transformation: schools are now islands of resource impoverishment whereas ho...
Posted 11/24/07, 19:10
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uce a learning experience that would NOT have been possible without todays technology. It also models a way to meet several of the new ISTE National Education Technology Standards for StudentsCapuchino High School has adopted Google Apps for your Domain as one of several tools used to implement the...
Posted 11/01/07, 14:21
Here's another post that might be filed under the heading, "Educational Change: Oxymoron?"David Brooks' Op-Ed piece "The Outsourced Brain" in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke ...
Posted 10/23/07, 13:21
"Arthus" is the web name of a 14-year-old student in Vermont who has recently become actively involved in the online dialog about educational technology. I find his voice an interesting--maybe a critically important--addition to the discussion. To me, Arthus is not representative of most 14-year-old...
Posted 10/30/07, 20:55
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y to bring an international learning community into your classroom. Here are some of the benefits and limits of this new tool, followed by some early educational examples.The BenefitsWeb-based: File storage, editing, and even the final presentation happens right on the web. This means that your pres...
Posted 10/06/07, 10:01
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s like those found at Middle Webs First Days of Middle School.These wonderful ideas have been built from years of experience in Classroom 1.0. The educational technology world is filled with advocates for Classroom 2.0 who share the opportunities of Web 2.0. But some are starting to ask questions...
Posted 09/19/07, 22:50
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arch, so you must agree to having events recorded.A week or so ago, I booked my first Flashmeeting as a meeting space for a Ning Icreated, the Global Education Collaborative. Sunday night's meeting was a trial run for me. I thought I had booked a meeting for Sunday, September 16th, at 8PM CST, but I...
Posted 09/15/07, 18:17
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pressure and isolation; they work, largely alone, in a classroom of 25-30 children or adolescents for hours every day." Prisoners of Time. National Education Commission on Time and Learning. April 1994Since this publication was released over a decade ago, many technological tools have emerged tha...
Posted 09/05/07, 19:42
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September 6th, at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, there will be a panel discussion on "Classroom 2.0" and the use of Web 2.0 software in education. A wiki with the panel members and more information is here.As preparation for the panel, an Office 2.0 Conference group in our Classroom 2....
Posted 08/23/07, 23:57
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duction, this is not a list of events that happened the year these kids were born or intended to serve as commentary about the class's pre-collegiate education. It simply is encouragement for Beloit's faculty to think about the perspectives their new students will bring to learning. As a person inte...
Posted 08/14/07, 00:07
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rt of the reason is a LACK of understanding, a LACK of vision, and a LACK of guts on the part of many school leaders to chart an innovative course of educational change for all the students and educational stakeholders in their communities.Most likely, as a reader of this blog, you were educated lik...
Posted 08/01/07, 10:28
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- 19 year old young men in a sports course at Tauton's College in the UK, which is designed to encourage male learners to go on to higher or extended education. The course uses their interest in sports to help them stay engaged and pursue additional academic achievements.Kristian uses the tools of ...
Posted 09/09/08, 11:29
(Cross-posted from www.stevehargadon.com)Wikispaces has given away 100,000 ad-free educational wikis, and has just announced they are going to give away 250,000 more. We're going to celebrate the general use of wikis in education and Wikispace's amazing milestone by having founder Adam Frey and the...
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