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Direct linkBushweller, Kevin C., Ed. – Education Week, 2017
This report, the 20th edition of "Technology Counts," examines how schools are tackling tech training for teachers, "passive" vs. "active" use of digital tools, and online learning needs. Contents include: (1) Tracking 20 Years of Change in Ed Tech (Kevin C. Bushweller); (2) Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Education, Technological Literacy
Tomassini, Jason – Education Week, 2012
During the first-ever Digital Learning Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski unveiled an ambitious plan earlier this year to get schools to switch from print to digital textbooks by 2017. Dubbed the Digital Textbook Playbook, it's a recommendation for how schools could transform…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Cost Effectiveness, Technology Integration
Education Week, 2013
Schools are working to incorporate more multimedia into classrooms, upgrade online professional development, and do a better job using data to improve student achievement. Even though nearly every school in the country is now connected to the Internet, not all of them have the kind of connections that allow teachers and students to make full use…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Computer Uses in Education, Academic Achievement
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2008
This article describes how some teachers such as Gamal Sherif are turning to electronic resources to capture students' interest in the election. Sherif, who teaches history and science at the Science Leadership Academy, a public school in Philadelphia, said "the technology is fun and helpful, but it's also a tool one can use to get a better…
Descriptors: Elections, Political Campaigns, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Davis, Michelle R.; Ash, Katie – Education Week, 2009
Last school year, many educators were caught unprepared when schools closed in response to cases of swine flu. This time around, both the federal government and school districts are putting specific online-learning measures in place to get ready for possible closures or waves of teacher and student absences because of a flu outbreak. To prepare…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Federal Government, Educational Technology
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2008
In this article, the author discusses the instructional challenges faced by educators this year in the 12,500-student Recovery School District (RSD), the state-run system that took over most of New Orleans' public schools after the storm in August 2005. Roughly 85% of the district's students scored at least two years behind grade level in reading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
