New Technology

Transformation and collaboration were the central ideas of the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, which kicked off June 29 with a call to fundamentally change education and continued with several other sessions that repeated this theme. Hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), NECC is the largest educational technology conference

This is the third of a three-part series on the push to integrate more innovative technology into educational systems despite decreasing school district budgets. School districts’ technology budgets vary, but one thing remains a constant - there’s more technology out there than money to pay for it. To deal with that reality, many cut where they can, do work in-house, seek out grants and support

Student internet use could be in trouble. Time was–in the musty era before even the commercial internet was generally available–an upstart America Online would charge you depending on how much time you spent crawling the internet (surfing came later). Ah, memories of spending interminable minutes watching a two-color AOL logo gradually load on your computer screen. We’ve come a long way since

School IT administrators know that some students will do anything to breach network security systems designed to block inappropriate web sites and keep students on task. When a group of school district IT chiefs met recently to discuss the challenges of reining in students armed with tech savvy and a determination to wreak network havoc, their tales were cautionary—but their advice could prove

A New Zealand teenager who admitted to hacking into the University of Pennsylvania computer system was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $11,000 in fines but avoided a conviction so that he can help police solve computer crimes.

As younger and more kids get their hands on cellphone and digital cameras and nearly ubiquitous high-speed Internet connections, cyberbullying is ramping up and taking new forms.
No longer are threats, taunts and insults relegated to the written word in chat rooms and instant messages. Now teens, children and sometimes adults are adding pictures and videos to their bullying arsenal and posting

The initial cost of delivering media content via a server-based digital management system averages about $3 per student (including hardware and software). School districts can realize their ROI in about as little as one year, just factoring in savings on duplication alone.

While thinking about a plan for this blogpost and preparing for a summer week of professional development for my staff I came upon Karen Janowski’s website and UDL toolkit. I thought I would start out with the challenge. Read further and find out why. As chefs we have a toolkit of our favorite resources in our kitchens, as bloggers we have our favorite links and feeds, as learners we have our

Syracuse University and Blackboard have partnered to develop technologies that will allow Blackboard’s learning management systems to integrate with the Sakai Foundation’s open-source learning management platform. Blackboard said it’s also planning to develop a connector Moodle separately. Moodle is one of the most widely used learning management systems, if not the most widely used. Like Sakai,

Social learning happens when you are engaged in a learning process with others. Classically, social learning happened in a classroom through the process of group discussion or assigned projects. Informally, social learning happened outside of class, as students turned to each other for assistance, context, reference or collaboration. But now – in 2008 - social learning is growing dramatically as