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A new paper by Joseph G. Antolji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange looks at whether or not American youth have responded to increasing economic rewards for skills and education by investing more in skills and education:
We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s [...]
Sometimes, my colleagues groan when I propose new uses for technology. "That's just Bill being Bill," they say, "Where there's a will, there's just gotta be a digital way with that guy!"
And while their groans drive me a bit crazy sometimes, I really am [...]
Over the past decade, the UK has spent billions of pounds to install and monitor closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on tens of thousand of street corners around the country.
It’s a system that many homeland security fanatics hold up as an example of what should be done here in the US [...]
Tuesday: Pinellas School Board, 10 a.m.
Wednesday: Hillsborough School Board, workshop, 10 a.m.; Commission for Independent Education, 9 a.m., Orlando
May 20: Hillsborough School Board, 3 p.m.; Pasco School Board, 6 p.m.; Hernando School Board, 7 p.m.
May 27: Pinellas School Board, 5 p.m.
June 3: Last [...]
This introduction to OERs is available at Connexions. It was prepared by Dr. Judy Baker of Foothill College to assist instructors in using open textbooks and other online educational resources. I highly recommend this tutorial for teachers new to OERs and as a review for professionals who are already familiar [...]
We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the third annual “K12 Online Conference” for educators around the world interested in the use of web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled for October 20-24 and October 27-31 of [...]
John Norton on TLN threw out an interesting challenge around a six-word memoir. Someone on the list called this game a limited-word writing
activity "American haiku". I found the activity so interesting I tossed it to my Twitter community. The results were delightful!
I [...]
Hot off Net-Gold list via
Sue Fraser
Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community
for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has
revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to
work published in its three journals. The policy, which became
effective May [...]
TOUGHER TO FIND THE TIME: Florida's elementary school teachers thought it was hard to fit 30 minutes of daily P.E. into their students' already busy schedule. So some gamed the system. The Legislature responded by requiring the minutes be "consecutive," making the requirement even more challenging. [...]
Philadelphia schools are dangerous, concludes the district’s safe-schools advocate.
In a blistering 72-page document obtained by The Inquirer, Jack Stollsteimer describes a district where students who assault teachers or come to school with guns are not removed from classrooms, a violation of federal and state law.
School crime, he says, [...]
Dynamic Rewards and Recognition Platform Enters Online Education Arena
uBoost is a web-based rewards and recognition platform for K-12 students whereby points are awarded for academic achievement and redeemed for relevant rewards and recognition. uBoost, has partnered with Weekly Reader and is providing members free access to Weekly Reader online [...]
Technology, education driving digital transformation in Middle East
Intel Corp Chairman Craig Barrett shared his vision on the role of technology and education in driving a digital transformation in the Middle East during a speech at the U.S.-Arab Economic Forum in Washington, D.C. this week. — EDN.com
Blackboard Inc. First [...]
Should leaders play games?
An eight-month study on leadership in games, commissioned by IBM, found that online games can be informal but realistic simulators for contemporary leadership training, helping to teach “soft” aspects of leadership. For example, the pace of games means that leaders often have to make hundreds of [...]
Computer-Based Learning Could Transform Public Education Within a Decade Through “Disruptive Innovation,” Experts Say
Computer-based learning is on the cusp of transforming traditional public education, say Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen and his colleague Michael B. Horn in the summer 2008 issue of Education Next. Based on their analysis [...]
After More Than 50,000 Women Vie for Full-Ride Scholarships, Initial Project Working Mom Recipients Are Selected in Time for Mother’s Day
eLearners.com, a web resource offered by EducationDynamics, announced that the first round of recipients for the “Project Working Mom: Putting Education to Work” full-ride scholarships will be announced and [...]
Education Stock Deserves to Go to Head of Class
Capella offers 950 online courses and proper degrees in pragmatic fields like business, information technology and health services. First-quarter results for the company, reported May 1, show enrollment surging 23% vs. a year ago, to 23,496 “learners” as the company likes [...]
Aplia Launches Web-based Interactive Homework System
Cengage Learning’s Aplia division has launched a new Web-based homework system called Grade It Now. The system combines aspects of practice problems with graded problems to encourage students to improve results as they work. — Campus Technology
China Education Resources Announces Fiscal 2007 Annual [...]
UNCG honored for online learning
UNC-Greensboro’s online distance learning programs have been honored with two separate awards, the university has announced. The U.S. Distance Learning Association has given UNCG’s Division of Continual Learning its “platinum award,” the top recognition for excellence from that organization. The N.C. Distance Learning Association has [...]
After replacing my hard drive last night and starting the long process of reinstalling all my applications (since I purposely did NOT want to just restore them from a backup) I’m sorry to report an intermittent slowdown problem is persisting. 
As you can see [...]
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Roger Shank’s commercial website “Grandparent Games,” which permits grandparents to have digital, interactive play with a young grandchild when both are on high-speed Internet connections and are using webcams. About a week after I shared that post, our 4 year [...]
On Monday (May 12), we will begin our online conference: Shaping our future: Toward a Pan-Canadian elearning research agenda. Terry Anderson is the first presenter and will be presenting on The value, form, and function of a large scale research agenda. All sessions can be accessed here. Discussion [...]
I spend most of my time looking at networks from the perspective of learners and educators. I find my own personal network for learning far exceeds any other information source (including Google). As I begin to follow/read different practitioners and theorists, I begin to develop in my own understanding - [...]
A short exploration of Twitter as a tool for reporting, filtering information, and consuming (much) time. A particular focus in the article is the use of twitter for finding information. I frequently see educators posting requests on Twitter...and the network replying with a great list of resources, often within [...]
