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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. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips.

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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

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

NeverEndingSearch

Project CORA : Community of Online Research Assignments an open access resource for faculty and librarians. Check out the post That Chain E-Mail Your Friend Sent to You is (Likely) Bogus. Hoax-Slayer : Australian Brett Christensen has been debunking email and social media hoaxes and spam since 2003. True-or not?

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. After the meeting ended, two parents approached Williams in the lobby.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Hayden is the first new librarian of Congress since 1987,” The New York Times observed at her swearing in in September, “and brings with her another generation’s ideas about accessibility, technology and the role that libraries play in society.” million in E-Rate rebates.).