Several of our high schools in Poudre School District (PSD), Fort Collins, Colorado, serve more than 2,000 students each, and for the vast majority, these are positive places…
Thirty-four years after its predecessor program became the most viewed series in PBS history, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, is introducing a new generation…
Much of the talk surrounding the Common Core State Standards has been about the content being taught, but few are discussing the audio hardware that districts need to…
As children, our accomplishments were recognized with trophies, plaques, a pat on the back or cloth badges sewn on to a Girl Scout or Boy Scout sash. In…
Several years ago, a school’s greatest concern regarding cell phones revolved around the risk of them ringing in class. Today, there are much greater worries that educators, parents…
If students can’t hear, they can’t learn. It’s that simple, which is why lead audiologist Dr. Donna Massine has spent the past 23 years working hard to make…
Data Security. Big Data. Personalized Data. Data Breech. We all have been inundated lately with the growing complex conversations around data management including the critical information collected in…
As the public and private sectors begin to collaborate to invest in and develop educational opportunities for today’s youth, we must work together to prepare technology driven lessons,…
Seeing is believing. An idiom that never rang more true in education than it does now. As a technology teacher in a project-based, middle school classroom, I always…
You would never ask students to write without giving them something to write with. You would never ask students to read without the right reading materials. You would…
Charles Hay World School is a public school in Englewood, CO, serving 400 students from kindergarten to 6th grade with an overall student-to-teacher ratio of 15:1. In addition…
The fields of science and technology have proved to be catalysts for many industries in Silicon Valley. Concurrently, educators have felt the urgency to implement new technology into…
I was teaching special education students in grades 5 and 6 in an inner city school in Canton. Time was going by and students continued to struggle with…
When students participate in out-of-class learning, teachers should recognize that potential Fifteen years ago, a student I never taught forever ... Read more
Any number of articles, studies, and research topics will tell you that students need technology in the classroom. We live in the digital age, they are natives, and…
Full-time, online public schools originated as alternatives to traditional education approaches and were even bandied about as ways to revolutionize the learning paradigm. Now, they too are in…
The nonprofit Technology, Education and Design (TED) is “devoted to spreading ideas,” according to its mission statement. How does it do that? By recording and posting various talks…
When it comes to school technology, having a plan—and having strong leaders to guide that plan—are two of the most important steps to success, according to the 2014…