Best Practices Articles

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  • Statewide ed-tech training program results in 'digital educators'
    Tue, Oct 07, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Professional development
    No Child Left Behind challenged all states to have technology fully integrated into the curriculum and all students technologically proficient by the eighth grade. In addition, the state educational agencies were to establish research-based instructional methods that could be widely implemented by local educational agencies. This was a pretty tall order for Florida to meet, with such a diverse population of students with various learning styles, educators who were focused on their core content areas, and district leaders with various definitions of technology integration. [ Read More ]

  • Arizona raising students' technology literacy
    Fri, Sep 26, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Tech Leadership
    Mention No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in any setting, and you're certain to excite a lively conversation. It seems everyone has an opinion, reaction, or thought about the law's effectiveness--and not all of these thoughts would be appropriate to say in polite company. For advocates of educational technology, however, one requirement of the law in particular has helped shine a spotlight on the importance of preparing students for the technology-driven world they live in and will work in: To assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every student is technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student's race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability. [ Read More ]

  • Alloy Navigator makes the grade at University of Pittsburgh
    Wed, Sep 03, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Data management
    The University of Pittsburgh provides technical support and delivery to the business and financial areas of the university through its Financial Information Systems (FIS) department. With 25 employees, FIS's technical staff provides innovative solutions through the strategic use of people, processes, and technology for business advancement and cost savings. [ Read More ]

  • Maine writes a new ed-tech success story
    Mon, Jun 02, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  One to one computing
    Since the early 1990s, Maine has been at the forefront of educational innovation, thanks largely to the adoption of new standards--called the Maine Learning Results--as a driver for 21st-century teaching and learning. A critical outcome and guiding principle of these standards is to graduate all students from Maine high schools to be clear and effective communicators. [ Read More ]

  • Kyrene showcased for exemplary tech use both inside, and outside, the classroom
    Wed, Apr 16, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Tech Leadership
    Each year, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) selects three school districts as co-hosts of a Technology Site Visitation, the purpose of which is to show educators how technology can be used to implement change across an entire district. One of NSBA's 2008 site visits took place in February at the Kyrene Elementary School District, a high-performing suburban district in the Phoenix, Ariz., area that extends over 170 square miles, enrolls 18,500 students, and employs approximately 2,000 teachers, administrators, and staff. [ Read More ]

  • Making a connection
    Tue, Mar 04, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Library Services
    Stationed thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Kevin S. Cook is online checking a list of reading materials for his daughter Alexis, a second-grader attending Rockfish Elementary School in Hope Mills, N.C. [ Read More ]

 

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