Source: thejournal.com

By: David Nagel

Two Florida school districts are using immersive online gaming in their summer math programs. Hillsborough County Public Schools added Tabula Digita’s DimensionM educational video games in its summer enrichment and intervention programs. The School District of Escambia County also put gaming to work this summer for course recovery and intervention.

DimensionM is an [...]

Source: www.examiner.com

By: Elaine Plybon

As teachers begin to prepare for the new school year, part of the planning is what to do in those first days of school. There are some things that will always be there: discussing the rules, getting equipment and supplies marked and put away, obtaining signatures on forms, etc., but outside of [...]

Source: thejournal.com

By: Bridget McCrea

Kathy Schwabe knows that there’s a standard assessment that most American schools use to keep tabs on their students’ reading progress, but that didn’t stop this Title I teacher from exploring a newer, more promising option a few years ago.

“It was sort of a fluke,” recalled Schwabe, a reading teacher at Speas [...]

Funding shortages, lack of teacher preparation mean schools offer less online learning than students desire, this research suggests
Source: eschoolnews.com

Despite a growing interest in online learning among students, the availability of online classes in K-12 schools and districts hasn’t kept pace with the demand, according to a new report from Project Tomorrow [and a partnering LMS].

According [...]

Sourse: thejournal.com

By: David Nagel

America’s schools, colleges, and universities are making limited progress toward providing technology-rich environments for students. According to the results of a benchmark study released this week at the 2009 National Educational Computer Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC, schools improved most in the area of broadband adoption in the last year but are [...]

Higher education is exploring course material via cell phones as smart phones gain traction among students
Source: eschoolnews.com

By: Dennis Carter

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text every day. Some campus officials are listening, and classes via web-enabled cell phones [...]

Source: star-telegram.com

By: Gene Trainor

One student is putting on lipstick in class while another has headphones on. A third student talks to his friend sitting next to him.

The teacher’s challenge: Try to engage these teenagers.

When the teacher suggests that the students do a worksheet, a girl puts her head on the desk.

So begins a computer program [...]

College officials say mandates for expensive equipment to watch online test takers could have been devastating during recession
Source: eschoolnews.com

By: Dennis Carter

Web-based college programs won’t have to buy pricey monitoring gadgets like cameras and fingerprint or eye scanners to satisfy the requirements of a section in the recently reauthorized Higher Education Act, federal officials say. Instead, [...]

Source: the journal.com

By: Scott Aronowitz

In an effort to make its vast collection of digital educational resources available for in-class use, PBS has announced the launch of the PBS Digital Learning Library, a comprehensive source of digital video, still images, audio, games, and interactive simulations for teachers to use to augment their lessons. PBS made the [...]

Source: www.kansas.com

By: Suzanne Perez Tobias

Liz Sothman first heard about Twitter during a writing class at Wichita State University.

Someone from a local advertising agency was explaining how companies use the microblogging site to communicate, market or promote their wares, 140 characters at a time. Sothman was dubious.

“I remember being in the back row and saying, ‘This [...]