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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology. Given the surge in Smart Classroom technology requirements, the demands on these IT professionals gets ratcheted up ever further.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

But when secondary goals don’t align, teachers and school leaders find themselves in a contentious relationship. Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, data in schools has become so many things—a carrot for more funding, a weapon used to dismiss teachers and a four-letter word.

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Kids Use Play To Communicate. Here’s Why Adults Need To Pay Attention.

Edsurge

12, 2001, the day after the attacks on the United States known as 9/11. I recently shared that story with Dr. Chip Donohue , founding director of the Technology in Early Childhood Center at Erikson Institute. From there we can begin to figure out how we can best serve their specific needs. It was the morning of Sept.

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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001. In 1996 we were awarded a U.S. The four partners are: Anna High School in Anna, Ohio, partnered with VHS Learning (then known as “Virtual High School”) in 1998.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Connect: www.nassp.org , @NASSP.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. And the coursework, I never felt I learned terribly much from any of my classes, but it was very much secondary.

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