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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Reflecting on this evolution, I’m struck by the radical changes that have shaped the educational environment, particularly in this early part of the 21st century.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

The Hechinger Report

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v. Related: OPINION: 3 ways that colleges can support underrepresented students after the Harvard case. “It Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. From the Department of Education’s press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Chief of Staff and Additional Staff Hires.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.”

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy assessed of the news literacy of students from middle school through college. Project CORA : Community of Online Research Assignments an open access resource for faculty and librarians.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

The FCC plays a particularly important role in regulating the telecommunications industry, and as such, it has provided oversight for the various technologies long touted as “revolutionizing” education – radio, television , the Internet. What can E-rate tell us about the relationship between politics and ed-tech?

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