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17 Sep 09
Social Networking Technology Helps Propel Aldine ISD to $1 Million Broad Prize -- THE Journal
Interesting article on Aldine ISD's use of technology and how it played a part in their winning of the $1 Million Broad Prize
10 Sep 09
Education Week: Swine-Flu Preparations Spur E-Learning Plans
...federal government and school districts are putting specific online-learning measures in place to get ready for possible closures or waves of teacher and student absences because of a flu outbreak.
02 Sep 09
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best -- THE Journal
20 Aug 09
Share More! - MGuhlin.net - writings_engaginglearners_part2
Lessons learned -- more information from Miguel Guhlin on implementing online courses and facilitating online learning.
Education World ® Technology Center: Eight Tips for Successful Online Course Facilitation
Great tips from Miguel Guhlin on facilitating online learning.
19 Aug 09
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“The study’s major significance lies in demonstrating that online learning today is not just better than nothing — it actually tends to be better than conventional instruction,” said Barbara Means, the study’s lead author and an educational psychologist at SRI International.
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More and more, students will help and teach each other, he said.
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16 Aug 09
Op-Ed Contributor - Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think - NYTimes.com
Great article on the intelligence and learning capabilities of infants and toddlers -- has implications for how we approach pre-school learning with children.
12 Aug 09
Promoting Learning at Home : UBAM Young Readers Blog
...Some simple steps that parents can take at home to support the knowledge and skills that students are learning in school and to help build connections between school and life.
09 Aug 09
Usborne Books Online Sales
Great work-from-home or part-time income opportunity for parents and/or educators. Promotes literacy and reading at home -- high-quality and educational children's books.
Freebies! : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Free resources and links to ways to get free books for children.
How Parents Can Encourage Reading : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Tips for parents to encourage reading and increase literacy.
Read-Aloud With Your Children : UBAM Young Readers Blog
If you aren’t familiar with the book “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition” by Jim Trelease, you could be missing some valuable information about how to read aloud with your child in a way that fosters their own reading ability.
Creating Readers for Life : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Notes from Danny Brassell's presentation in Houston (August 2008)
What About 21st Century Literacy & Technology? : UBAM Young Readers Blog
Books are also a form of technology
07 Aug 09
ASCD Inservice: Danke Schoen John Hughes, 1950-2009
"Hughes' films have their teachable moments to the world of education..."
26 Jun 09
LIBERATING LEARNING | John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
An Excerpt from Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of Education
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Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students, giving them productive alternatives to the boring standardization of traditional schooling.
Education can be freed from geographic constraint: students and teachers do not have to meet in a building within a school within a district, but can be anywhere, doing their work at any time.
Students can have more interaction with their teachers and with one another, including teachers and students who may be thousands of miles away or from different nations or cultures.
Parents can readily be included in the communications loop and involved more actively in the education of their kids.
Teachers can be freed from their tradition-bound classroom roles, employed in more differentiated and productive ways, and offered new career paths.
Sophisticated data systems can put the spotlight on performance, make progress (or the lack of it) transparent to all concerned, and sharpen accountability.
Schools can be operated at lower cost, relying more on technolog
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y (which is relatively cheap) and less on labor (which is relatively expensive).
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16 Jun 09
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming « - Blogs from CNN.com
U.S. State Dept. to Twitter: Keep Iranian Tweets Coming #IranElection
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