Making the case for Education Technologies

Microsoft announces 2010 winners of U.S. Regional Innovative Educators of the Year

August 4, 2010

Congratulations to first place contest winners Cheryl Arnett and Rawya Shatila and all the other honorees! On Monday, Microsoft announced the winners of the U.S. Regional Innovative Educators of the Year at Microsoft’s  U.S. Innovative Education Forum (IEF) in Washington D.C., where outstanding teaching teams were recognized for integrating 21st century skills into student learning projects. This year’s [...]

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Campus Technology 2010: Time and Money Well Spent

July 22, 2010

The cost of attendance has been more than justified by the learning, technology exposure, and networking opportunities. I’ve been attending the Campus Technology 2010 Conference in Boston for the last few days, and I learned a good deal in most of the Conference Sessions that I’ve attended. I heard some folks gripe a bit about some of the sessions [...]

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Collecting studies focused on the impact of Education Technologies

July 19, 2010

Gathering empirical evidence supporting the positive results that education technologies can help to deliver. I’ve decided to try putting together an online collection of reports and studies that examine the use of education and instructional technologies, and how effectively they have been used to improve learning outcomes. I’ve had this thought from time to time, and last week I came across a [...]

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The Key to Popularizing Technology in Education

June 27, 2010

Meeting these requirements can position any education technology implementation effort for success. I’m delighted to post this guest post, contributed by Anna Miller, who writes on the topic of online degrees . Many readers of this column appreciate the challenges that educational institutions face in their efforts to leverage the many technological tools available to today’s educators. In [...]

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Let’s stop misspending education technology dollars

June 16, 2010

A lot of schools have over spent on, and under supported, interactive white boards and other education technologies. I was fascinated by this article yesterday in the Washington Post. The article is a follow up on a prior piece in the Post that explained that “a view is emerging that the large amounts of money schools [...]

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Blogging For Fun (and Education)

June 4, 2010

This guest post by Alexis Montgomery discusses the many skills that students can develop by blogging. Kids today inhabit a technological world that few of us could have imagined even a couple of decades ago.  They practically live on the internet, spending untold hours on social networking, games, videos, and just plain surfing.  But the [...]

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Guest Post: Technology Workshops for Grad Students

May 23, 2010

Washington U’s workshops, with their focus on pedagogy first, are a nice model for teaching educators about incorporating technology in the classroom. Guest Post By Bryn Lutes and Tanya Roth. Bryn and Tanya are instructors at Washington University in St. Louis, MO,  and have helped to evolve the offerings discussed here into the current series of workshops, focused on effective technology use [...]

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5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog

May 5, 2010

‘Teacher Tech’ is an informative Education Technology resource worth being tuned into. I have the good fortune of being one of a handful of educators and bloggers chosen to participate in a series of guest posts on Microsoft’s teacher-focused blog site this week. Just for clarity’s sake, I should mention that I am not actually a teacher (the other guest [...]

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Kaplan University Professor commercial spot grabs my attention.

March 17, 2010

As I was combing through a few different drafted posts and ideas for this week’s mid week post, this commercial came on. It sure caught my attention. Kudos to Kaplan for packing such a punch. I had to share it. Share this with a colleague today. [Ed Note: I have noticed that the Google ad [...]

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Education Technology – Don’t Lean On It, Leverage It (Repost)

September 23, 2009

Forgive me for repeating myself, but I feel a certain passion for this recent post, and I don’t think it got a fair deal, being posted on a holiday (Labor Day), and at the beginning of a week where many of us were swamped with the start of a new school year. For this week’s “midweek update” I am promoting my post “Education Technology – Don’t Lean It, Leverage It!” from earlier this month. Please click through and give the first paragraph or two a quick read – I hope this will interest you enough to read further, and to also pass it on to a colleague if you think it can make an impact and encourage someone to give education technology a try in the classroom. Thanks!

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