With one phone call, Amir Abo-Shaeer’s life changed drastically. Amir has worked as a physics teacher at Dos Pueblos High School in Santa Barbara, California for the last nine years. Two weeks ago he got a phone call from a … Continue reading
Do you work with tech-savvy young women? Want to encourage them to pursue careers in computing? The application deadline for the annual award for aspirations in computing presented by the National Center for Women & Information Technology is coming up … Continue reading
A movie will be released tomorrow that has the potential to start a movement. If you happened to catch The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday, you have some idea of the potential of this extraordinary documentary. Just as Al Gore’s … Continue reading
The National Center on Performance Initiatives at Vanderbilt University yesterday announced the results of their study Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching. Linda Perlstein, the blogger who writes The Educated Reporter, provided a … Continue reading
The India Slate offers the “frugal engineering” approach to mass use which facilitates what the late Dr. C.K. Prahlad called “marketing at the bottom of the pyramid” or“BOP” for short. In BOP marketing, rules are turned upside down to suit … Continue reading
The New York Times Magazine launched their annual education issue this weekend, and unsurprisingly the focus was on technology. Although a rash of blog posts appeared commenting on the coverage of games in the classroom, cellphones in schools, and e-learning … Continue reading
As kids are entering social networking spaces earlier and earlier (Facebook is aging down, even though the user agreement requires you to be at least 13 years of age), parents and educators need to equip kids to handle interactions in … Continue reading
The weeks have flown by since we saw many of you at ISTE 2010 in Denver, and it’s time already to ask you to put your passion for learning and teaching with ed tech down in the form of a … Continue reading
Obama’s back to school speech was broadcast live today at 1 p.m. EST to schools across the country. The Whitehouse provided several different ways for teachers to tap into the live stream of Obama’s speech, which he presented at the … Continue reading
This week marks the 25 birthday of an international cultural icon. The world celebrated the birthday of Nintendo’s Super Mario brothers yesterday. We owe so much to these brave men, who faced Koopa Troopas, Goombas, and Piranha Plants that emerge … Continue reading