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One of the Horizon Project's designers outlines the five phases she uses to get students to the level of collaboration required for the ambitious project.
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Ask a group of teachers anywhere in the world what technology integration is and you will receive many different answers. People in the same profession have different views because each person is in a different phase of the game and few understand how to play. In this article, Adam tells us what he thinks it is and where it happens.
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Teachers, like the students in classrooms, come from all different perspectives when it comes to technology integration. Each comes to work each day or to a professional development seminar with a different set of schema for using technology, and therefore unique needs when it comes to their personal learning journey.
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Students are not ready for college and the global economy, according to the Education Commission of the States. Find out what they think matters.
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A new report identifies six emerging technologies for learning-focused organizations, timelines for adoption, and critical challenges.
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People use digital technologies at various levels at both home and work. We can arbitrarily categorize the frequency of their technology use and the overlaps in usage.
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Intelligent Classroom Resources
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Professional Development is about improving the teaching and learning in the classroom. Quality professional development for the teachers and staff of a school is one of the most effective ways to improve student learning. It requires time and effort in planning, implementation and evaluation.
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The technology director for a school that is a federal government test site for laptop learning shares his secrets to a successful implementation.
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Here are tips and ideas to using a multi-disciplinary approach that will help students learn with digital photography
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Using digital images to tell a story is not just creative but fun; and here are some tips to help make the end-product worth watching.
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Using technology to support virtual collaboration and establish an online community can serve as a useful tool to "keep the fire burning" among a planning group and help bring positive resolution to the task at hand.
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Building a new educational environment requires a fundamental rethinking of what we do, and it requires that schools ask some hard questions about their way of doing business.
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Free web sites with sound educational content are available from federal agencies. The sites here promote math and computer science education.
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What are the most effective (and cost-effective) tools for helping teachers facilitate project-based learning? Here are a few and the author asks for more.
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These web sites for teaching history and social studies are federally supported teaching and learning resources for teachers to use in the classroom and for technology and curriculum coordinators to recommend to educators.
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Teachers in Warren County, PA appeared to be vying for “ best whiteboard subject area” when a local paper asked about the new teaching tool.
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These web sites for teaching science are federally supported teaching and learning resources for teachers to use in the classroom and for technology and curriculum coordinators to recommend to educators.
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Montgomery County Schools in the Washington DC suburb of Rockville Maryland is the 16th largest in the United States. They are proud of the Intelligent Classroom with Dell laptops and other technologies. Watch this video to see one piece of their many successes.
Grants Calendar
Print out this poster so you can find grants that are appropriate for your needs all year long.Download the grants calendar
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What is a Model Intelligent Classroom?
Students today have embraced technology in their personal lives and they crave that interaction with technology when they enter the classroom. A Model Intelligent Classroom is a combination of computers and related technologies such as projectors and cameras that together transform classrooms into high-tech, interactive learning centers in which students acquire the 21st Century skills they’ll need to compete in the digital economy.
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Schools across the nation are adopting the principles of the Intelligent Classroom. Find the Intelligent Classroom near you and find out what’s happening behind the scenes.
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Project Based Learning
The article Tools for Facilitating PBL discusses effective (and cost-effective) tools for helping teachers facilitate project-based learning. The author notes that “the formidable task of structuring, monitoring, managing and evaluating student work” is a major barrier to greater use of PBL. What, if anything, keeps you from using project-based learning?
