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The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity.  With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past year’s performance. Reflection provides valuable insight into your performance and allows you to create a [...]

MIT professor David E. Pritchard conducted a recent study that analyzed cheating on homework in his introductory physics course.  He arrived at some interesting conclusions. Chief among these, that cheating occurs  about 50% more than is reported by students in surveys and that this frequently led to students bombing their tests. The professor, David E. [...]

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) recently released the organization’s top ten Edtech priorities for 2010. The overarching priority, so to speak, is a definite commitment to improving student achievement through the effective use of technology. According to ISTE, technology must be the “backbone of school improvement.”

An End of Year Prediction: Classroom Technologies in 2020– Larry Cuban How to Run a Meeting Like Google– Carmine Gallo, Business Week Digital Textbooks Open a New Chapter in the History of US Education– eSchool News Twitter for Teachers: A Collaborative Effort to Teach Teachers about Twitter– Twitter for Teachers R2D2, Where Are You?– Shawn, [...]

Blackboard, Desire2Learn End Dispute– David Nagel, THE Journal Blogging Improves Young People’s Confidence in Their Writing and Reading– Ewan McIntosh The State of E-Learning 2009– Tony Bates, E-Learning and Distance Education Engaging Students with Engaging Tools– Ed Webb, EQ Using Technology to Improve Collaboration– James Manyika, Kara Sprague, & Lareina Yee, What Matters 25 Sites [...]