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21st century skills

District Management

Survey reveals school leaders’ opinions on 21st-century skills

November 5, 2013October 20, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
As school district leaders increasingly incorporate so-called 21st-century skills into their instructional strategies, many believe the federal government should support the development of new school assessment models that…
District Management

Education in a social world

November 6, 2013October 5, 2010 by By Farb Nivi
Prior to the industrialization of education, the education model was centered around a single-room school house consisting of one teacher with many students throughout many grades. The teacher…
District Management

New internet tools create class collaboration

September 28, 2010 by Laura Ascione
In Alison Saylor's technology class, she teaches her students more than just computers: In fact, she says they're learning things that just might revolutionize the classroom, 9news.com reports.…
District Management

Groups urge updates to teacher preparation programs

October 29, 2010September 23, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills are calling on teacher education programs to update their curricula to better prepare…
District Management

The best college course ever?

November 5, 2013September 20, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
Playing the real-time strategy video game StarCraft isn’t just for frittering away afternoons in students’ dorm rooms. It’s now for college credit, too.
District Management

Report: ‘Top-third’ teachers essential to U.S. success

October 29, 2010September 20, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
Improving teacher effectiveness has risen to the top of national education priorities, but the key to attracting, training, and retaining truly effective teachers may lie in the “top-third”…
Teaching & Learning

Obama: Education is essential for success in 21st century

September 14, 2010 by Laura Ascione
President Barack Obama is taking to the nation's airwaves once again, this time to tell America's schoolchildren that nothing is beyond their reach as long as they dream…
District Management

Teacher innovation gets royal treatment

August 3, 2010August 2, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
In what could be called a 21st-century teachers' fair, Microsoft chose a select group of educators to participate in the company’s annual Innovative Education Forum (IEF)—a showcase of…
District Management

B-schools all a-Twitter over social media

July 27, 2010 by Laura Ascione
With interest in social media growing, B-schools are adding courses to teach students what it means for business, BusinessWeek reports. Harvard Business School and Columbia University's Graduate School…
Curriculum

New tool shows how arts education boosts 21st century skills

July 18, 2010July 15, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Working with national arts organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) has developed a first-of-its-kind Arts skills map that clearly defines how arts education promotes key 21st-century…
District Management

Survey reveals slow progress in education technology

November 5, 2013July 12, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
U.S. schools’ average overall scores on an annual survey designed to measure their progress toward implementing 21st-century classrooms and learning skills increased less than 1 percent from 2009,…
District Management

Words that inspire

June 30, 2010 by By Ted Lai
Live ISTE Blog - One of my favorite quotes comes from Uncle Ben of Spider-Man fame... "With great power, comes great responsibility." I'm pretty sure that Stan Lee…
District Management

ISTE explores global solutions to education reform

June 30, 2010June 29, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
ISTE 2010 opened its third day with a panel discussion featuring global perspectives on how education can best benefit from excellence and innovation.
District Management

ISTE focuses on excellence, global education

November 5, 2013June 27, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
The 31st annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE, formerly NECC) conference kicked off in Denver with inspiring and thought-provoking comments from ISTE President Helen Padgett and…
IT Management

Educators, students can benefit from technology training

November 6, 2013June 17, 2010 by By Michael Hildebrandt
Technology is changing the face of education. Typing on a keyboard can make learning proper handwriting unimportant. Using a calculator can make simple math functions technology-assisted processes. And…
District Management

Wisconsin agency aims to transform education’s core

November 5, 2010June 10, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
With support from all of its 45 superintendents, a Wisconsin regional service agency is determined to reinvent the very nature of public education so that all students are…
Blended Learning

The 21st century classroom

November 6, 2013May 25, 2010 by By Jonathan Carrier and Jonathan Stovall
Imagine a classroom where the teacher can evaluate and analyze student performance in "real-time." Envision collaborative instruction on one side of a metropolitan area, using team teaching, with…
Curriculum

Teaching in a socially networked classroom

April 22, 2011May 20, 2010 by By William Kist
Let’s face it: Social networking is here to stay. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, or the next application to come along, social networking is a part of students' lives.…
IT Management

West Virginia looks to Second Life

November 6, 2013May 18, 2010 by By Robert Mellace
On Dec. 21, 2009, the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) launched a definitive online resource for potential and current educators in West Virginia called Teach West Virginia.…
District Management

Report highlights ed-tech lessons from abroad

November 5, 2013May 13, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
Scotland and the Netherlands both invest significantly more federal money per student in information and communications technologies (ICT) than the United States, and they both view ICT as…
District Management

Teacher of the Year: Education ‘must be learner-centered’

April 25, 2011May 4, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Facebook and digital video are among the many technology-based tools that Sarah Brown Wessling uses to engage her students—but just as important as that, it was her passion…
Blended Learning

Like Facebook, but for learning

November 5, 2013May 3, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
Aiming to engage students who are multitasking with different forms of technology, companies are creating collaborative learning spaces online where students can help one another solve homework problems…
District Management

Microsoft, ePals team up on collaborative tools

November 5, 2013April 22, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
In a move that could spur more widespread use of online tools for communicating and collaborating within K-12 education, software giant Microsoft Corp. has announced a strategic partnership…
eClassroom News

Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 targets 21st-century skills

November 5, 2013April 13, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Adobe Systems Inc. has updated its multimedia design and publishing software with the April 12 release of Creative Suite 5 (CS5), which contains new curricula, a certification program,…
Teaching Trends

Race to the Top finalists announced

July 7, 2011March 5, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The U.S. Department of Education has named 16 finalists in the first round of its Race to the Top competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform…
Curriculum

Kentucky to be first to endorse national education standards

February 10, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
Kentucky schoolchildren in grades K-12 will see new standards for math and English next year, as part of a collaborative effort among 48 states to more clearly specify…
District Management

What every 21st-century educator should know

December 29, 2010January 18, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Educators today are constantly bombarded with the phrase “21st-century skills,” and the message that all students need to learn those skills in order to succeed. And while general…
IT Management

Free online course helps students plan careers

November 5, 2013July 10, 2009 by By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor
A free online learning program from Microsoft is helping middle and high school students think about careers they might like to pursue and the skills necessary to attain…
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