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Digital Natives on the San Mateo County Coast: Technology in the classroom
In classroom C-109 at Cunha Intermediate School in Half Moon Bay, each of the eight science tables has a stack of textbooks and a laptop on it. As part of the 2010 BookServer and the Digital Classroom project, Deborah Cowden has been using technology in both her...
ISKME’s Lisa Petrides: Open Education and Policy | New Media Rights
CC Talks with ISKME's Lisa Petrides on Open Education and policy.
Lisa Petrides: ‘Superman’ Puts Spotlight on Education
On opening night I got to see the new documentary by Davis Guggenheim, "Waiting for 'Superman'," a film that is bringing cognitive dissonance to educators across the country. Before that, I had read a dozen or so well-written blogs that had described in...
Dan Okrent, City Mayors and Stacy Schiff to Join Events
The academic and corporate worlds come together to share new thinking on education. Speakers include a middle-school principal, the head of nonprofit Futurelab and a Microsoft Corp. researcher. Sunday-Wednesday, the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Half Moon Bay, Calif....
Reaching Students Through STEM and the Arts
Teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are discovering that by adding an “A”—the arts—to STEM, learning will pick up STEAM. “Students remember science learning situations that contain multi-sensory, hands-on...