New technology could help schools reduce cost of virtual computing

If we want students to know 99random facts we create a test such as the SAT II subject test. If we want students to learn to write an analytical essay, we assign an essay, then grade it for form, style, grammar, content, and correct bibliography. If we want students to think and act creatively than…

"Hello Children, everywhere". So began Junior Choice, formerly Children’s Favourites, a radio programme that ran on the BBC between 1954 and 1982. I don’t know why, but the tune popped into my head last week when I read about the controversial new National Curriculum proposals for primary schools.

Only 44% of U.S. teachers today report being very satisfied with their jobs -- a decline of 15% over the past two years, professor Michael Moore writes in this opinion article. Other countries are doing better, he writes.

Schools have integrated technology into education in three ways: by incorporating tech tools into traditional instruction; through a combination of traditional and online education; and through online instruction, veteran educator Larry Cuban writes in this blog post. Access to the information afforded by technology isn't the same as getting an education, which involves the acquisition…

A physics and chemistry teacher in California uses her passion for music to help her students learn complicated science and math lessons. Maureen Rymer, who plays the guitar, recorder and piano, often makes up songs and writes lyrics when her class is struggling with a topic, including a recent tune about grams and division.

A new nonprofit group is working with school districts to provide access to iPad tablet computers to students with autism spectrum disorders.

Richard Rose, who has two decades of experience in online teaching, offers six tips to help virtual educators be successful. He writes that online teachers should not expect constant validation, get to know their students and understand that complete control is unrealistic in a virtual environment.

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Flipped classrooms use technology—online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons—to reverse what students have traditionally done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework assignment so teachers can provide more one-on-one attention in class and students can work at their own pace or with other students.

Schools in New Jersey and elsewhere are decreasing the amount of time spent teaching students to write in cursive. The trend is driven by the national Common Core State Standards, which does not require penmanship instruction, and by technology, which some say has decreased the need for students to learn cursive.

When Justin Minkel, a teacher at Jones Elementary, a school in northwest Arkansas that serves a predominantly low-income Latino population, realized that his students didn't have books at home, he decided to do something about it.