Source: www.nj.com

Teachers are always learning, and Centenary College recently hosted a summer teachers’ academy that served that goal well.

Attendees had the opportunity to learn to engage students with Smartboard, Senteo and iPod interactive technologies and become better equipped to educate, inspire and provide tools necessary for students to become knowledgeable and excited about environmental issues.

Participants [...]

Source: www.bordermail.com.au

By: Breanna Tucker

Baranduda Primary School is preventing its students from turning into cyber-bullies by signing them up to a Facebook site for kids.

The school is among the first 100 in Australia to be trying the UK-based SuperClubsPLUS program, which is a social networking site for children aged 6 to 12.

The club allows students to [...]

Source: www.channel4.com

The BBC could be asked to clear its schedules for educational programmes if schools are closed due to swine flu, it has emerged.

Ministers are understood to have had discussions with the Corporation as part of its “contingency planning” for the pandemic.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said: “The Government drew up [...]

Source: www.courierpress.com

By: John Martin

Revolutionary change is coming to high schools in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. this year — the introduction of computers as day-to-day teaching tools.

EVSC officials say the move is an acknowledgment that today’s students are immersed in technology and learn differently than previous generations.

They say other schools with one-to-one laptops now consider [...]

Source: eschoolnews.com

By: Maya T. Prabhu

Middle and high school students spent a little more than four weeks this summer at McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., developing the programming and modeling for a prototype of an educational computer game called Immune Attack 3.0.

Last year the students used the free educational game to learn, by aiming [...]

Source: www.usatoday.com

By: Dan Vergano
Is our children learning? Bad grammar, but still a good question.
Long before President George W. Bush posed his ungrammatical query on the 2000 campaign trail, debate simmered over school testing, vouchers and teaching. And just like in a lot of modern debates, scientists have quietly tackled the underlying questions, offering up new [...]

Source: nytimes.com

By: Tamar Lewin

In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.

Students who choose Cengage’s rental option will get immediate access to the first chapter [...]