The Big List of Technology Integration
Articles
- Members of the education community microblog about what they're doing.8/13/2008
- Students learn how to think creatively as Web researchers.8/13/2008
- Use the Web to find information and advice about understanding media.8/13/2008
- Kids have always been bored in class; technology is just the latest diversion.8/13/2008
- Students learn to be savvy media consumers -- and producers, too.8/13/2008
- How radical innovation will change the way we teach and kids learn.8/13/2008
- These tools are the ultimate enablers of collaboration -- in and out of class.8/13/2008
- Teacher Louise Maine offers tips for using wikis in class.8/13/2008
- Learn science, technology, engineering, and math with robot-building projects.8/13/2008
- A new generation of video games sneaks into assessment tools.8/13/2008
- The Internet changes the shape of school advocacy.8/13/2008
Educators offer guidelines for promoting good online behavior.
8/13/2008- A Pennsylvania teacher revitalizes her classroom with a wiki.8/13/2008
- Simpler to build, less expensive to buy, self-activating machines will become indispensable teaching tools.8/13/2008
- Surprising ways to bridge the digital divide.8/6/2008
- Five easy, practical steps toward better digital integration in your classroom.8/6/2008
- Where the going is tough, Architecture for Humanity gets schools going again.7/30/2008
- A Tennessee school district gives low-income students computers and home Web connections.7/30/2008
- Remote telescopes, desktop planetariums, and 3-D space-simulation programs launch classrooms into space.7/28/2008
- Special tools make learning accessible at one Brooklyn high school.7/23/2008
- Educators employ project learning to explore science and history together.6/25/2008
- The chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation urges Congress to expand Internet discounts for schools.6/24/2008
- New devices are giving special-needs students opportunities they've never had before.6/10/2008
- English teachers take text messaging to task -- as a teaching tool.5/28/2008
- Schools get creative when untangling PC problems.5/22/2008
- A new high school in Chicago explores the possibilities of tech-centered learning.5/22/2008
- Be your own tech support: Get technology training from your computer.5/22/2008
- Put today's hottest game console to educational use.5/22/2008
How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools.
5/22/2008- A national panel recommends technology to fix a broken system. Here's how some teachers are using math tech.5/22/2008
- Some inexpensive tech tricks yield big classroom dividends.5/21/2008
- How do educators engage female students in computer science?5/19/2008
- Here are five rules for varying your teaching methods to help students learn more.5/9/2008
- Two educators, chosen in a Random.org scramble of this year's survey participants, will take home iPods.5/7/2008
- These digital resources, from interactive glossaries to lab simulations, help teachers engage students.5/1/2008
- A New Orleans nonprofit organization uses Facebook to reach candidates.4/28/2008
- The British Library puts some of the world's oldest, most beautiful, and culturally significant books online.4/27/2008
- Educators can access the prestigious university's free course materials on the Web.4/17/2008
- Encourage student participation with accessible and engaging digital discussions.4/16/2008
- An amazing new tech tool kit lets kids make history their story.3/26/2008
- Know what you can -- and can't -- download for the classroom.3/20/2008
A step-by-step guide to how children can develop a curbside electronics-recycling program.
3/19/2008- Here are four steps to adding that je ne sais quoi to your language lessons via free Internet resources.3/11/2008
- A state Court of Appeals ruling on homeschooling may have a dampening effect on virtual schools as well.3/11/2008
- Virtual reality provides a shared online universe in which students can play to learn.3/4/2008
- More and more schools are looking to online tutoring as a way to help students.2/25/2008
- Young children use technology to monitor an ecosystem's health.2/20/2008
A nonprofit organization helps children in the Mumbai slums and other impoverished areas improve their futures by training them to use computers.
1/22/2008These user-friendly tools will keep you and your class inspired, inventive, and organized.
1/14/2008- Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.1/13/2008
- The number of real students in cyber classrooms is on the rise.1/12/2008
- Students create a collaborative, international network of fables and folktales that celebrates and shares cultural heritage.1/11/2008
The Los Angeles Unified School District enlists MySpace-savvy students to reduce the dropout rate.
12/3/2007- Feeling foggy? Take 2 milliamps to the brain and call me in the morning.11/15/2007
Teachers can create international-collaboration projects on a small budget.
11/12/2007The president and CEO of the Environmental and Spatial Technologies Initiative answers questions on how to start a school laboratory for tech projects.
10/11/2007- A national program succeeds with student-directed labs.10/9/2007
There's no reason to be bored with this new kind of board.
10/3/2007- A top teacher shares her enthusiasm for -- and tips about using -- interactive whiteboards.10/2/2007
Acclaimed oceanographer Robert Ballard wants to make some waves in science education.
9/10/2007Online teachers bring new energy and expertise
to the traditional classroom.9/7/2007- Using the power of the Web, tech-savvy teachers bring students closer to home.9/4/2007
New software that will soon be available to teachers and students enables sophisticated classroom presentations. Cost? Peanuts.
8/29/2007- It's time to redefine "college prep."8/28/2007
Sesame Street revolutionized education once. It's time for the YouTube era to do it again.
6/25/2007We asked students, “What tech do you want to see in class?” Here’s what the students came up with.
6/24/2007Seventy-one percent of teens say the Internet is their primary source for information for completing their most recent school project or report.
6/19/2007- A blog is a tool for getting kids to think -- and type -- about what they're learning.6/18/2007
- The new reality is that the public-education system is no longer the only, or the paramount, place where we go to learn.6/14/2007
- BibliOdyssey gives entrée to a gorgeous and idiosyncratic gallery of rare art.6/14/2007
We wondered about the best tech to bring into the classroom. So we went to the experts: students.
5/31/2007- Teachers need a site for one thing, parents for another, and students for yet something else. Here's an example of how to merge the three needs into one site.5/31/2007
High school students score with film soundtracks.
5/30/2007Or, recipe for world peace: Take working-class British teens to Arab countries, load them up with digital-reporting technology, and watch them blog about breakfast.
5/29/2007- Computer Clubhouses offer underserved kids an after-school retreat for inclusive, hands-on learning -- from editing digital photos and producing their own music to building robots.5/29/2007
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5/8/2007- 4/30/2007
- Why teachers should embrace networking, and how they can use it to improve education.4/20/2007
- QuickMuse.com shows the creative-writing process as it unfolds.4/16/2007
- At Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, there’s nothing timid about technology.3/22/2007
In advance of their overseas visits, California and Japanese high school students get acquainted on neutral Second Life turf.
3/21/2007- School librarians debate how digital to go, and whether to keep advocating for the endangered book.3/16/2007
- How to safely set students loose in the educationally thrilling but fundamentally ungovernable photo-sharing network.3/12/2007
- A partial sampling of simulations for elementary, middle, and high school.3/9/2007
Media
- An Arizona State University professor sees a bright future for video games in the learning process -- in and out of school.8/12/2008
- A teacher at Boston Latin School demonstrates the latest devices for helping students who have visual impairment. More to this story.7/23/2008
- A field trip from Ferryway School, near Boston, to the nation's oldest ironworks is captured with the latest tech. More to this story.5/30/2008
- Assistive technology helps a blind computer science student and devoted gamer pursue his passions. More to this story.5/28/2008
- Classes at Clearfield High School, in Clearfield, Utah, apply computers and diagnostic equipment across the curriculum to engage in authentic learning.3/19/2008
- Students at this Minnesota elementary school use new technology to study the ancient ecology of a vast prairie wetland. More to this story.2/19/2008
- At a multicultural high school in Ottawa, technology opens new worlds.1/7/2008
Pat Harder, an English teacher at Henley Middle School, in Crozet, Virginia, discusses how she uses technology in humanities subjects to enhance learning.
4/6/2007Christopher Dede, Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of learning and teaching in the school's Technology in Education program, discusses trends in the use of educational technology, as well as his teaching and research activities, which include collaboration and in-depth scientific inquiry in virtual environments.
4/6/2007- Computer simulations are natural learning tools for a generation of video game players. More to this story.3/28/2007
David Gibson, co-creator and co-principal investigator of simSchool, talks about the latest educational research.
3/16/2007Dr. Joyce Pittman is an assistant professor of education at the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. She is also the founding director of the college’s Comprehensive Educational Restructuring and Technology Infusion Initiative (CERTI2), which helps teachers and educators learn to appropriately incorporate technologies into their daily teaching, allowing their students to better fulfill their roles as employees, citizens, and human beings.
3/16/2007Jim Moulton, a nationally and internationally recognized educator and educational technology professional developer, talks about the role of technology in teaching and learning, and project-based teaching and learning.
3/16/2007Aaron Doering, education director of Go North, describes new emerging technologies for classrooms. Doering teaches in the Instructional Systems and Technology Department at the University of Minnesota, and his teaching and research interests relate to the use of technology, including geographic information systems, hypermedia, and online learning environments, to enhance education within K-16 classrooms.
3/16/2007- Peggy Benton, an assistant professor in San Francisco State University's Department of Instructional Technologies, discusses the importance of integrating technology in the classroom in both primary and secondary education.3/16/2007
A distinguished educator for the Maine Learning Technology Initiative discusses the state's technology program and the decision that is putting laptops in the hands of every middle school student in Maine.
3/15/2007Podcasts, wiring schools, interactive digital media -- technological innovations are being made in the classroom every day, but does it really help kids learn? Julie Evans, CEO of Netday, talks about student opinions on technology in the classroom.
3/15/2007- The filmmaker touches on topics ranging from the importance of teaching visual literacy to violence in films to the preservation of classic movies. More to this story.10/23/2006
- The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus takes the band out of the garage and on the road. More to this story.6/30/2006
- High school students draw on the expertise of professional cartoonists. More to this story.6/13/2006
- Virtual schools make available a world of new courses -- from obscure electives to Advanced Placement classes -- that challenge students intellectually and open up new doors educationally. More to this story.3/23/2005
- Throughout rural West Virginia, distance learning courses provide students access to foreign-language instruction when their own school can't hire a qualified classroom teacher.3/6/2005
- A pioneering effort of the Hudson School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience in subjects not offered at their local school.3/6/2005
- Florida Virtual School serves 100,000 students throughout the United States, offering courses not available to them locally and providing more individual interaction with a teacher.3/6/2005
- Thanks to some ingenious assistive technology, this high school student didn't let a birth condition stifle his passion for music. He played euphonium in his school's award-winning marching band from his wheelchair. More to this story.2/6/2005
- From voice-activated software to customized laptops, tech changing the way disabled students communicate, learn, and play. More to this story.2/2/2005
- Faced with the fastest-growing student body in the country, spread out over 8,000 square miles, Clark County is addressing its growing pains virtually.9/6/2004
- In Bay Shore, New York, technology tools help students understand music theory and compose pieces of their own. More to this story.5/5/2004
- A Honolulu school uses technology to illuminate an ancient heritage. More to this story.2/9/2004
- A school uses technology to help provide top-of-the-line education for all students. More to this story.1/19/2004
- Maine's middle school laptop program is working. More to this story.12/16/2003
- At this Hawaiian high school, students use multimedia tools to shoot, edit, and narrate works on topics such as child labor. More to this story.8/5/2003
- Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore the geography and geology of their community. More to this story.6/2/2003
- Sophisticated electronic gadgets such as probes and global-positioning-system devices catch students' interest. More to this story.4/1/2003
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- Technology use based on brain research gives students an edge at this school in Florida. More to this story.2/25/2003
- It took time, teacher buy-in, and technology, but this urban school district in New Jersey has gone from dismal to dazzling. More to this story.1/23/2003
- Computers and multimedia are seamlessly woven into the curriculum at this technology-rich school. More to this story.11/1/2002
- Digital Promise is a proposal to establish a major educational trust fund that would help transform education, training, and lifelong learning to meet the needs of the nation's new knowledge-based economy. More to this story.10/16/2002
- This program helps Latino students deliver powerful messages through video and the Web. More to this story.7/1/2002
- A suburban Chicago school district takes the lead in outfitting teachers and students with personal digital assistants. More to this story.3/6/2002
- Preservice teachers at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education model the use of a digital microscope for veteran science teachers. More to this story.9/1/2001
