BlackBerry Babies
The colorful device from LeapFrog has a large LCD screen and full Qwerty keyboard, just like a BlackBerry, as well as a built-in calendar to help children learn the months of the year.
Exponential Growth
Interesting video about how fast technology has, and is, progressing:
Tennessee launches Electronic Learning Center
The Tennessee Department of Education announced the launch of its
electronic learning center to give students, parents and educators
access to learning and professional development resources anytime,
anywhere.
Tennessee launches Electronic Learning Center on The Murfreesboro Post
Need help with class? YouTube videos await.
When University of Central Florida junior Nicole Nissim got
stumped in trigonometry, she checked out what was showing on YouTube.
Nissim typically scours the video-sharing Web site for clips of
bands and comedy skits. But this time she wasn’t there to procrastinate
on her homework. It turned out YouTube was also full of math videos.
Making sense of the ’semantic Web’
The “semantic Web” does not sound like it’s fun and easy to use, but it
could make surfing Web 3.0 a more rewarding and interactive experience.
Some believe it could even lead to a new form of artificial
intelligence.
Mr. Obama’s Internet Agenda
President-elect Barack Obama recently announced an ambitious plan to
build up the nation’s Internet infrastructure as part of his proposed
economic stimulus package. Upgrading the Internet is a particularly
smart kind of stimulus, one that would spread knowledge, promote
entrepreneurship and make this country more competitive globally.
California Community College System Gets Expanded Collaboration Tools
CCC Confer, a project out of Palomar College
in San Marcos, CA, is expanding its Web collaboration capabilities. The
organization, which provides Web-based conferencing capabilities for
the massive California Community College System (CCCS) enterprise-wide, has upgraded to the Elluminate Learning Suite unlimited license.
California Community College System Gets Expanded Collaboration Tools — Campus Technology
Ed tech central to Obama’s recovery plan
To boost the sinking economy, government needs to invest in
modernizing and upgrading school buildings, expanding broadband
internet access, making public buildings more energy efficient, and
launching a public works program to rebuild the nation’s highways, said
President-elect Barack Obama in a Dec. 6 radio address.
Tech trends every school leader should know
A new generation of students with vastly different learning needs
is redefining expectations for classroom instruction, and a growing
emphasis on school accountability is changing the role of the school
district IT leader: These were two of the main ideas outlined in a Dec.
10 webcast from the Consortium of School Networking titled “Major
Technology Trends that School District CTOs Must Know.”