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- Teaching concepts and perspectives. Computer education includes computer systems and information systems. Contrast with training.
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- Want to help out your school? Do it now!
- This morning, I ran across a piece in eSchool News that should be of interest to anyone involved with K-12". It is called Samsung's Hope for Education and the description reads:Through a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, Hope for Education will provide more than $2 million in technology and software to K-12...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Linux definitely has a place in education
- But will the rest of the world follow?A few posters responding to my blog, SUSE vs. Ubuntu - first impressions, noted that they felt Linux was completely pointless in education. It wasn't so long ago that I shared their opinion. After all, 90% of the developed world uses...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Budget tight? Better cut music
- Its that time of year again...Jobs are on the chopping block as administrators try to balance budgets. There are a couple of easy programs to cut, of course. Music and physical education are often the first to go, despite real and demonstrated value. Unfortunately, when these programs...
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Will $60 billion dollars make us competitive?
- The United States Senate overwhelmingly passed the America Competes Act Wednesday. This act is designed to boost funding significantly for educational efforts in math, science, and technology. According to CNN.com, "The increase would boost total spending in these programs to $60 billion over the four-year period, said Sen....
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- US governors: US education needs to get competitive - now
- The message was loud and clear at the National Governors Association this week—the U.S. needs to take immediate action in order to keep up with globalization, reports the Sante Fe New Mexican. The governors expressed concern that the U.S. is quickly losing pace in the global marketplace...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student data
- New budget negotiations in Utah are getting underway, and lawmakers are asking for a portion of the education budget go to private contractors to sort student data, reports the Deseret UT News. Under the proposal, $3 million of the education budget would go to implementation of a system...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Bush cuts funding for science education
- Congress has started to weigh in on President Bushs education spending request in his current budget proposal, and in general, they are not pleased, reports Inside Higher Early hearings in the House and Senate leave little doubt that the Bush administrations allotment to science education leaves something...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- IN teachers union fights online schools
- The issue of state funding of charter schools came to a head this week as Indianas largest teachers union is making plans to fight the approval of two new online charter schools, reports the Indianapolis Star. After the approval by Ball State University of two online schools and three...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Online options continue to grow
- The expansion of online education is trickling down to the K-12 set, reports TechNewsWorld. Although there is no substitute for playing dress-up and other games with other children, the virtual classroom is making headway in the elementary grades as a supplementary option. "The initial resistance to online...
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Bill's FutureShock: Technology will distinguish colleges
- Technology will be one of the most important factors in choosing a college or university in the future, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, reports CNET News.com "We need to be humble in making predictions of how technology will affect education," because people made big predictions about how TVs,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Post picks best edtech blogs
- If youre not tired of all the "best of" lists, Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews, along with retired teacher Walt Gardner, asked readers to nominate their favorite education blogs. Gardener and Mathews picked 10 blogs each out of 74 submitted. Gardner said that "choosing the 10 best...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Science education needs serious commitment
- American math and science education is in need of radical change, members of a National Science Foundation-appointed commission declared during a telephone meeting recently, even criticizing their own initial attempts at planning for the future, reports Inside Higher Ed. The NSF created the Commission on 21st Century Education in...
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- Six trends for 2007 and the 21st century
- eSchoolNews editor Gregg Downey offers six prognostications for the coming year. #1. Web 2.0. YouTube is just the latest and most spectacular example of how the democratization of the internet is about to change everything. For education, it seems to me, the populism inherent in the internet...
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Music ed goes Web 2.0
- Although many public schools are gutting their music programs, music teachers and homeschoolers can take advantage of new software that utilizes Web 2.0 to assist with music lessons and collaboration online, reports eSchool News. Software companies are developing programs such as eJamming, WorkshopLive, and In the Chair that...
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- Serious gaming may change the face of education
- The line between entertainment and education gest blurrier all the time. That was clearly the case during the two-day Serious Games Summit in Arlington, Va., which featured video games on subjects such as gerrymandering, medical education and military operations, reports USA Today. "You read about science in a book...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Entrepreneurs see profits in UT virtual diploma
- In what could be a potential untapped revenue stream for Utah high schools, two U.S. businessmen have made an offer to buy access to the states Electronic High School and market it internationally, reports the Salt Lake Tribune Anthony E. Meyer, chairman of Meyer and Co., a New York...
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Palo Alto, ground zero of Silicon Valley, lags in edtech, school quality
- In the middle of Silicon Valley, the hub of computer software and hardware manufacturing, public schools in Palo Alto are lagging far behind when it comes to classroom technology, reports the Palo Alto Daily News. A study recently released by Partners in Education found that compared with five...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- If the Crunchpad is dead, what's next for ultracheap Ed tech?
- The fabled "Crunchpad", an ultracheap tablet PC dreamed up by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, as has been widely reported on ZDNet and elsewhere, looks like it will remain vaporware. Bummer. Not that any of us were holding our breath for the device. However, a $300 tablet...
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Global scope of East Anglia hack of global warming docs
- Here's the link with juicy details:http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2009/11/rolo-compressor-de-verdades.htmlClimate 'scientists' are liars. That's clear.Hockeystick anyone?And another one with some straight facts.http://www.climatedepot.com/Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey... HmmmThat sure reveals who the interested parties are.I wonder what their next step will be, start advocating the benefits of global warming perhaps?Communist manifesto & elitesDo you see the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
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