This recent posting at Scholastic suggests some effective web-based programs for schools.  I’m a bit skeptical, but, nevertheless, here they are.

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When students have already learned that knowledge is created collectively online and that no one lecturer has the answers, their approach to college changes. So too must professors’ pedagogy. Here’s an excerpt from one professor:
This is where many begin the blame game, and where I part ways with them. Polite, dutiful, and [...]

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The Pearson Foundation have this fantastic page with a series of short films spotlighting one or another form or education reform, with an emphasis on technology.  They are TED-like in their appeal and well worth a viewing. And discussing.

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Over 800 Videos in Core Content Area Instruction: “
Thanks to Ken Task who shared this collection of videos:

Over 800 videos in categories like Arithmetic, Pre-algebra, Algebra, Geometry,Linear Algebra, Chemistry, Trigonometry, Biology, and Physics (this list is not complete … see the site for more!)
There is a collection for Finance, Venture Capital and Capital Markets, [...]

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If you’re looking for a simple way to record and share screencasts, this easy to use site is it. It avoids the hiccups of Jing and you don’t even have to download it.

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This article from JRTE explores the ethical and professional dilemmas of pre-service teachers and their social network identities.  Well worth a read for both student- and current-teachers.

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Kindle nothing.  The headlines are all about e-readers and textbooks are poised to go the way of the dodo. I’m not sure who this is new to, though.  All the major textbook companies have been going digital for years now.  Sony had an e-reader well before the Kindle.  Students have seen this coming, clearly, because [...]

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The head line of the piece below uses the word "train," which I worry about.  Training doesn’t seem to work; support does, though:
Educators need to embrace Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but they should be given adequate professional development to ensure they learn the proper ways to engage their students through digital media, said [...]

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A recent Stanford study found that charter schools do better, over all, than public schools in cities like here in New York.  This article below summarizes the study and some of the reasons that might explain the difference:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/education/22charters.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1253618031-BjjBHuCrlpwBL33/4TWQdg

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In this post from a few months ago, CUNY seriously debated using blogs like Wordpress rather than Blackboard:
Blogs Instead of Blackboard – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The most convincing argument is that CMSs like Blackboard and Moodle, while indeed helping to organize a course online, still leave all of that rich learning behind [...]

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A timely preliminary study out of the UK about assessing the impact of technology on improving learning:
http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/impact_of_technology_on_outcomes_jul09.pdf

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In a recent post, Angela Maiers talks about the use of reading levels in literacy instruction and gives it her own 21st century literacy twist.
Good readers know that they can never to judge a book by it’s cover, but do good reading teachers know that they can not  judge a reader by their reading level? [...]

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I get that playing Wii for 20-30 minutes twice a week might constitute enough physical activity to grant college credit at the University of Houston.  I get that.  The Chairman of Health and Human Performance put it this way:
"The goal here is that there are people who may be interested in physical activity, but [...]

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Here you’ll find a pretty clearly written account of how UNESCO frames the importance of information literacy:
Understanding information literacy
I’m still looking for the comparably clearly written How-To manual.  It’s got to be around here somewhere…

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A recent piece from The Economist discusses a school in New York City called Quest to Learn that has re-conceived of teaching and learning through video games.  The school will serve as a lab for educational research to test theories of video gaming and learning, most popularly discussed by James Paul Gee (who is at [...]

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