‘Education’ Archives
Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology
The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes, many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. [...]
Apple technology to aid Pamlico students
BAYBORO — Pamlico County Primary School students will have some of the latest technology at their fingertips when iPod touch devices from Apple Inc. are delivered to the school. The Pamlico County Board of Education unanimously approved an informal bid on Saturday to purchase the devices and other Apple technology using part of a $1.25 [...]
Science : Inventors and Inventions
Research the history of famous inventions – past and present. EnchantedLearning.com A comprehensive educational directory and homework helper that provides a wide variety of resources on Inventors. Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably [...]
TV Show : ‘The New Inventors’ is all about inventions and inventors.
‘The New Inventors’ is all about inventions and inventors. Each week 3 totally new, never before seen inventions are demonstrated, examined, prodded, pushed, pulled and occasionally dropped by host James O’Loghlin. Their inventors are then subjected to a barrage of questions by the 3 member judging panel. At the end of the show [...]
NASA Kids’ Club
NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America Aerospace agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics [...]
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe. [...]
Click-N-Learn – Computer Hardware
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Movie : Pay It Forward
Pay It Forward is a 2000 American dramatic film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. A 12-year-old schoolboy in Las Vegas, Nevada named Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) is given a class project to complete by his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey), a man with terrible burn scars on his face and neck. His [...]
Movie : Front of the Class
Brad Cohen is a motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome (TS). Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky. The book has been made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame [...]
TED Talks for Teachers to Watch
TED Talks provide viewers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary and ideas. The contents of many TED Talks can be directly or indirectly applied to your classroom practices. While you're on holiday break, you may want to watch one or all of these TED Talks. If you're interested in learning more about using TED Talks in your [...]
Toyota to Become First Vertically Integrated EV Company With Solar Charging Stations
Pictured above is a solar charging station under development by Toyota. The company has plans to open the first of 21 in the Spring of 2010, signaling a move by Toyota to become a vertically integrated company. First, make the plug-in car. Then, build the charging station that it plugs in to. It’s comparable to the same company both digging [...]
Gates Foundation seeks keys to effective teaching
Ever since Americans sent their children to one-room schoolhouses, parents have known what makes a good school: inspiring, organized, and creative teachers. But researchers haven't been able to quantify what, exactly, makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement. Now, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation--one of the [...]
How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks is a commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain explaining the way many things work. The site uses photos, diagrams, videos and animations to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language. A documentary television series with the same name also premiered in November 2008 on the [...]
Fortune of India's 100 Richest – Rebounding Stock Market India
Happier days are here again for India's super rich, thanks to a rebounding stock market, up two-thirds in the past year, and a still buoyant economy that's growing at least 6% a year. The nation is now home to 52 billionaires, up from 27 last year and only two short of what India had at the peak of its stock market boom in 2007. The combined [...]
3-D technology is Becoming Increasingly Popular in Education
The automobile, moving pictures, personal computers, cell phones, and social networks—all of these technologies, once considered frivolous, have made such a huge impact on our culture that our daily lives would change dramatically without them. Could 3-D video be next? It's a question made relevant by new improvements (and falling costs) [...]
Students and Educators in the World of Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Too often we are seeing [...]
Education 3.0 ~ How some schools are taking 21st-century teaching and learning to the next level
Education 3.0 is a term that has been used to describe a level of transformative capabilities and practices for education in the 21st century. Professor Derek Keats, of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, used the term in 2007 to apply to the use and impact on education of collaborative and personalized learning, [...]
Reinventing Education : Learn how the San Diego Unified School District is transforming the way its students are taught
As schools nationwide examine new federal priorities, San Diego unveils a five-year plan to transform the way students are taught. President Obama has challenged the nation to turn around low-performing schools, put highly qualified teachers into classrooms, [...]
Kids and Technology – Parents Making Choices
Issue to Think : What do you think about kids having more expensive technological gadgets at their personal disposal in general? Read this comment By Erika Krull, MS, LMHP. Erika Krull, MS, LMHP is a practicing licensed mental health counselor in Nebraska. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I have seen more and more elementary [...]
