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Showing posts with label learning technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning technology. Show all posts
Thursday, February 25, 2010
PRESS RELEASE: Universities get $7 million for history-education clearinghouse
Stanford University's School of Education and George Mason University have been awarded $7 million by the U.S. Department of Education to establish a virtual "Federal Clearinghouse for History Education" to help teachers become more effective educators and teach K-12 students why history is relevant to their daily lives...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
ONLINE DEBATE: The Economist Oxford-Style Debate on Effectiveness of Technology in Education
Proposition: The continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education.
Over the last several decades, large investments have been made to equip primary and secondary schools with computers and teacher training. Now it is time to examine whether there has been a sufficient return on this investment. Does technology really offer substantive advantages to students? Does technology accelerate or impede real progress in education? Similarly, does technology serve as a teaching crutch or does it offer the ability to promote sustainable change in the world?s classrooms? And if so, is the technology deployed today being used to best possible advantage? What conditions need to exist in schools for technology to have an impact?
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