http://fintelo.com/blog What's New in Online Learning? Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:49:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignright" width="453" caption="Area teachers received training on integrating new technologies into the classroom during Centenary College's summer teachers' academy."][/caption] 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/academy-helps-teachers-integrate-technology-in-classroom/ Source: www.eschoolnews.com By: Laura Devaney As part of the Obama administration's emphasis on bringing education into the 21st century, it comes as no surprise that policy makers have trained their focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education as a way to give more students, especially girls and minorities, stronger global ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/momentum-building-on-stem-education/ 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/textbook-publisher-to-rent-to-college-students/ 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/trying-to-learn-how-learning-works/ 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/students-help-program-science-computer-game/ Source: www.astd.org By: Tony Bingham The learning profession has a history of dancing around the subject of informal learning. You might think, “We’ve been talking about it forever and have even dabbled in it. Our worlds aren’t crumbling. I am really busy and don’t have the time or the energy to get ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/learning-gets-social/ Source: www.americanprogress.org By: Louis Caldera President Barack Obama has proposed an ambitious agenda to reform and improve U.S. education at all levels, including by harnessing the power of technology to deliver education in new and innovative ways. He is backing up these proposals with plans for a significant increase in the ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/educational-tools-for-the-21st-century/ 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/education-in-their-hands/ 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, ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/swine-flu-plan-for-schools-via-bbc/ 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 ... http://fintelo.com/blog/2009/09/01/school-gets-in-early-to-stop-cyber-bullies/