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eSN Special Report: Beyond virtual schools
These days, virtual education can be more than a home-schooled child sitting alone in front of a computer. Purveyors of online-education products are creating various delivery methods to suit school…
eSN Special Report: Teaching students with autism
As autism diagnoses continue to rise, an alarming new statistic indicates that autism is now diagnosed in one out of every 91 children, instead of one out of every 150…
eSN Special Report: Small-group collaboration
Educators are increasingly seeing the value of having students collaborate in small groups on classroom projects--and whether such projects involve producing a written or multimedia presentation, solving a math problem,…
eSN Special Report: Reinventing Education
Beginning this fall, third and sixth graders throughout San Diego will use laptop computers to connect with their peers and work on projects that apply what they're learning to real-world…
Reinventing Education
Beginning this fall, third and sixth graders throughout San Diego will use laptop computers to connect with their peers and work on projects that apply what they're learning to real-world…
eSN Special Report: Education 3.0
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through Louisiana's Jefferson Parish in 2005, tornadoes took down some school buildings and floodwaters rushed through others--wrecking classrooms and making many facilities in the 85-school district…
Accelerate Learning
The public has spoken, and 88 percent of voters believe schools need to incorporate 21st-century skills into their curricula. Reporting on its poll, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)…
eSN Special Report: 21st-Century Teacher Education
When Sandy Armstrong was studying to become a teacher, technology instruction was limited to learning how to use an overhead projector or run a reel-to-reel movie over a player's spindle.…
Learning without limits
Zach Bonner is a smart kid, but he's a bit confused to hear that some adults still assume students in online schools are somehow worse off and spend all day…
Cloud Computing: The Economic Imperative
In the same way a utility company delivers electricity, natural gas, or water--you sign up, then don't have to think about it any more--cloud computing delivers IT services to the…