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Nobel Peace nominee: Pay teachers more, focus on mobile technology
Sir Bob Geldof—an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist—noted during the Consortium for School Networking's recent K-12 Technology Leadership Conference that the world's economy is changing, thanks…
Companies aim to help schools create digital learning environments
As more schools make the shift to a digital-based teaching and learning environment, a number of new products and services have emerged to help ease this transition.…
Controlling costs a key selling point for ed-tech vendors
For many of the companies exhibiting at recent educational technology conferences, a key selling point was how their software or services could help schools save money during a tough economy.…
How can research inform ed-tech decisions?
Education stakeholders often ask for research to justify ed-tech purchases. But instead of using research to rationalize a large-scale, expensive purchase, school leaders first should identify the problem for which…
How to rekindle a love of learning in school
What would a high school classroom look like if the students were all like kindergartners, eagerly learning everything they could about the world? What makes this idea seem ludicrous—and why…
CoSN 2012: Empowering decision makers
Mobile devices and Web 2.0 participatory applications have become pervasive, yet our educational system is still based on an outdated industrial age model. The Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) 2012…
Ed-tech group outlines goals to help schools implement technology
One of the nation’s major educational technology advocacy groups has identified five key goals in a new three-year advocacy plan that will help address and advance new K-12 ed-tech learning…
Experts give advice on mobile learning
At this year’s Consortium for School Networking conference in New Orleans, not only did most attendees carry their iPads and smart phones from meeting to meeting; the annual conference also…
CoSN’s crystal ball: Get ready for mobile learning, cloud computing
In one of the highest attended sessions of the Consortium for School Networking’s annual conference in New Orleans, CoSN, in collaboration with the New Media Consortium (NMC), on March 16…
Mobile learning, online communities take the spotlight
During its annual conference in New Orleans March 15, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched two new initiatives: one to help school leaders understand how to lead mobile learning…