How Higher Education Can Use CMS to Drive Enrollment
Your website should be a major driver of enrollment, if your content is doing its job. How do you transform your website into a well-oiled content producing machine…
Month: October 2013
Six ways to engage in Connected Educator Month
During Connected Educator Month, it's important to realize that the skills, information, and resources shared among school leaders and teachers should be used and applied all year long…
Admins, teachers partner to embrace technology infusion
Classrooms across the nation are experiencing an infusion of technology that is meant to engage students and take learning beyond the four walls of a classroom. This infusion…
Can clickers solve high-stakes headaches?
One of the many concerns that school IT leaders have about the shift to online assessments is whether they’ll have enough computers and bandwidth for students to take…
Did your favorite articles rank in our October issue?
Hi, I’m Michael, associate editor of online and social media for eSchool News. Our monthly digital issue is a recap of this month’s news and technology innovations in…
Turning education upside down
The New York Times reports: Three years ago, Clintondale High School, just north of Detroit, became a “flipped school” — one where students watch teachers’ lectures at home…
Why the ‘GREAT Teachers and Principals Act’ is not great
During the last few years, The New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), a major private funder of K-12 charter schools, has been intensely involved in creating and promoting a…
Should business education be free?
It’s hardly surprising that the appeal of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continues to grow, Forbes reports.
Delaware Vision 2015: School leaders see some progress
What is going right in Delaware’s education system? What areas need work? And how do we improve? Those were the questions on the table at the Vision 2015…
Tablets for Education: Fewer iPads?
As more tablets emerge in the ed-tech marketplace, including Intel's new education-focused tablets designed with science inquiry and online collaboration in mind, tablet users are moving into two…
INFOGRAPHIC: Are schools worrying about the shutdown?
View this infographic to learn more about what your educators are thinking about the government shutdown.
Best Connected Educator Month tweets-Week 2
Here are the Connected Educator Month tweets that we found most enlightening, helpful, or interesting this week. #CE13
Science resource pairs students with real data analysis
Science education gains another link to real-world applications with new institute School administrators and curriculum directors constantly search for ways to help teachers give students meaningful learning experiences…
Internet barriers won’t hinder flipped learning
In a new YouTube video series, one technology expert is flipping ed-tech professional development for educators by showing them how to flip their own classrooms even when students…
A scramble across city as school drivers strike
Boston school bus drivers went on strike Tuesday morning — with no advance warning to families — leaving thousands of children stranded at home or at bus stops…
The inside story on LA schools’ iPad rollout: “a colossal disaster”
Scarcely a month ago, on August 27, the Los Angeles County Unified School District placed the first iPads in students’ hands at the outset of a $1 billion…
Can startups disrupt the slow-moving education market?
Every year, schools spend billions of dollars on supplies and instructional materials and staff, Mind/Shift reports.
Why schools make bad buying decisions
Schools buy stuff badly, EdSurge reports.
How strong state leaders leverage ed-tech resources
In an effort to support administrators during Connected Educator Month, two state education leaders shared their tips for creating and sustaining online collaboration tools for classroom teachers. Sponsored…
State leaders learn tips in Connected Educator Month
state-technology If state technology leaders know one thing, it’s that community and connection are vital for achievement--both professionally and for student achievement. As part of Connected Educator Month…
OpenEd highlights Common Core-aligned videos, games
Teachers and parents have another resource to help them find free, standards-based videos and games to enhance students’ education: OpenEd.
A connected superintendent’s day
School superintendents and administrators deal with a number of demands, and those demands can vary greatly from day to day. In honor of Connected Educator Month, Stacey Schmidt,…
Let tech organize your teaching
By now, many new and veteran teachers are settling into the routine of the new school year, Edutopia reports.
Three lessons from Amplify’s melted charger
Last Friday, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina “suspended the use of Amplify tablets, cases, keyboards and chargers, effective immediately.”
Houston-area school district ends $16M iPad plan
A Houston-area school district has abandoned a $16 million initiative to incorporate thousands of iPads into classroom curriculums after a consultant found widespread problems, the Associated Press reports.
High-tech approach to end bullying
A Johnstown company says it has found a better way to help the nation’s schools battle bullying – with the click of a computer mouse, The Tribune-Democrat reports.
Silicon Valley magnate? There’s a STEM school for that
Too often educators have heard stories of brilliant students like Mark Zuckerberg dropping out of school to get a head start in the technology industry, eager to become…
Sparticl engages teens with free STEM resources
A new free website is connecting teens with top-rated science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content online, and also puts the power of information in students' hands as…
L.A. school board to review $1-billion iPad project
The Los Angeles Board of Education has scheduled a special Oct. 29 meeting to review efforts to provide iPads to every student and teacher in the nation's second-largest…
Technology: The next giant leap in education?
Technology is evolving exponentially and is being used for far more than simply keeping in touch with friends and family on Facebook, the Huffington Post reports.
The failures of for-profit K-12 schools
The Washington Post reports that for all of the three-decade hype about how business practices applied to K-12 schools will make them more efficient and high performing.
St. Tammany School Board committee adopts resolution seeking end of Common Core in Louisiana
A St. Tammany Parish School Board committee overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Gov. Bobby Jindal, state Education Superintendent John White and BESE to abandon the Common Core…
Augmented reality snags a coveted spot in classrooms
A student holds a tablet in front of a series of famous paintings. On each painting, something comes to life--sounds, animation, or a pop-up fact linking the painting…
App of the week: Everyday Mathematics apps
A popular elementary math program that offers several apps that help students (PreK-6) practice and improve their math skills.
Teamwork in schools: What administrators should know
Administrators are tasked with an ever-growing list of responsibilities in their schools and districts. Central to ensuring smooth operations? Teamwork. When school administrators, teachers, and staff members work…
Free administrator MOOC focuses on digital learning
A new, free, Massive Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC -Ed), designed to help district and school leaders, is now available, focusing specifically on helping administrators effectively implement…
Five essentials to create connected students
Recently we had a holiday, or at least it felt like one, edSurge reports.
The context and history of blended learning
Blended learning isn’t new, TeachThought reports.
Why are there still so few women in science?
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with…