Google Adds New Education Category to App Marketplace
With more than ten million student and faculty users of Google apps, Google is making clear its desire to be a key player in the education market. In recent weeks Google has announced significant additions to its education services. Last week it added additional security features for school administrators. These were aimed at making Google’s cloud-based services more user friendly for schools and addressed several control issues that are unique to the school setting. Today, Google announced a new Education category for its Apps Marketplace. The goal of this category is to provide...
Read MoreEnd of School Year Reflections
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 schedule or road map for change. Not conducting deliberate reflection quickly leads to stagnant teaching with ineffective lessons and the teacher being little more than a highly paid baby-sitter. Effective reflection should...
Read MoreCheaters Never Win
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. Pritchard, led a research team that analyzed student performance in an online homework system called MasteringPhysics.com during four different semesters. The researchers were able to measure the time spent on each question and look for ...
Read MoreISTE’S Top Ten Edtech Priorities for 2010
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.” With a growing expectation that both the Federal and State governments will provide a large infusion of funds in 2010 to facilitate school reform, it is important that school leaders consider the extent to which technology will...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: December 28 – January 3
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, edbuzz Start the New Year Off Right with the Essential Tools for Educators– Steven Anderson, Blogging about the Web 2.0 Classroom 8 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010– Sarah Perez, Read Write Web Student Learns...
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