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Students: School a Technology Downgrade
Teenagers are speaking up once again—stating that, in technology, school is a big downgrade from what they experience, and expect, in the rest of their lives. That message comes through in new data from Project Tomorrow, the nonprofit group, once called NetDay, that has surveyed school communities across the United States since 1993. The Speak Up 2008 [...]
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A few schools are beginning to tap Web 2.0 tools for multimedia communication to give their students vivid educational experiences. Educators in Ventura County, in Southern California, and the Bering Straits district, in Alaska, are both working in this vein, though with different twists. Ventura County has partnered with the National Park Service to connect students to [...]
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- I will soon post my review of the new federal study of educational software, which found no significant benefit. And next week: Mobile phones in the classroom. #
- About 1,030,000 students were enrolled in online or "blended learning" courses in K-12 in the 2007-08 academic year, out of 49 million students in U.S. public schools, according to a new study by the Sloan Consortium, a nonprofit research collaborative based in Needham, Mass. That figure was up from 700,000 students in courses that were online or blended with traditional methods in 2005-06, suggesting an annual growth rate of 21.3 percent, according to the study, released in January. #
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