C&I Ed. Research Project

Blog: Turning Technology-driven Social Fads Into an Educational Tool Drew Polly, Phd, UNC, Charlotte www.vste.org

Web 2.0 Literacy and Secondary Teacher Education Danielle Fahser-Herro and Constance Steinkuehler 2009 http://www.crste.org/images/Herro_Web20_Literacy.pdf Internet use strengthens literacy in students according to this study. In fact sometimes test scores improves in certain cases, not across the board.

Automation of Education System Technologies

This article outlines how many districts strongly support having cameras on school buses to prevent bullying and stop other safety issues on school buses before they progress. The cameras hold students accountable so they are more likely to behave when knowing there will be consequences for their actions.

This is a short video that discusses the protection of works and how one must obtain permission to use copyrighted material. It also explains the period of protection before copyrighted material become the public domain. Lastly, it focuses on fair use for educational purposes with the use of citations and limitations. The video ends discussing who is affected by copyright infringement.

Download this pdf for free as a free member. It is great about classroom management. IT is from the George Lucas foundation

This article focuses on how students fare when taking history courses from coaches or persons who might not have a strong history background. After one college student does poorly in a coach taught college history course, the author points out ways coaches can improve teaching history and become more effective teachers. The implementation of the Coaching History playbook was established to help Texas coaches who teach history improve their instruction.

Sounds neat. Learning how to coach coaches to teach is a good idea. After they can apply their craft to teaching, they can improve.

This article outlines the benefits of having cameras on the school including a lower rate of bullying and fighting, driver accountability and documentation of student behavior.

This article contains an example of an innovative teacher tackling a complex issue in a way students will love and remember. That is, she turned a potentially tedious lesson on copyright and fair use rules into an opportunity for students to create scripts, lines, and act out their understanding of the subject!

Good idea. I like learning new teaching tips and tricks.

This is an article written by Mary Anne Hess about the Pros of differentiated instruction. This Article reviews the benefits of differentiated instruction and how to effectively implement it. 

This article sheds a light on how bus drivers can have positive impacts on students academic and social success in school. While bus drivers have a hard job, they are the first and last educator a student sees each day and they too can have lasting effects on a child they drive each day.

In this presentation on the Davidson County School's Website you can explore ways of how to implement Mentor Texts into the writing of young students.

This article is about schools being vertically aligned in the curriculum. The focus is upon mathematics and the question is whether or not it is a job well-done.

This article foucuses on the advantages of state funded Pre K in Georgia compared to other states and the outcome of students who attend Pre-K. The article suggests students do well later in their school careers and have as much advantages as any private programs.

This video shows the importance of cameras on school buses and how they hold everyone accountable, help the driver focus more on driving rather than constantly having to monitor children through the mirror and how the cameras act as a silent witness in observing and reporting student behavior on the bus.

I think it is an awesome idea to put cameras on school buses because just like the driver said in the video, it is impossible to properly monitor the students while trying to watch traffic as well. As a child, there was always something going on in the back of the bus and when the driver asked what happened, no one saw anything! Therefore, I think cameras on the bus is a great idea to help ensure student's safety.

You can't go wrong with cameras on a school bus. The summer following my freshmen year in high school, I would ride the bus to summer school everyday. The bus picked us up from what was considered to be one of the worst neighborhoods in the community. Everyone that rode that bus got along with one another very well, however there was still bullying going on. The bullying was not student to student, it was student to bus driver. That poor man endured so much harassment from the students that after about 2 weeks he quit. Students would throw things at him while he was driving (paper, candy, you name it). I don't see how he got us to school and back alive with so many distractions. No one got in trouble for the way the bus driver was treated because there were no cameras on that bus. After he quit they sent a new bus to pick us up, it did have cameras. That was the end of that. I think this video was short and straight to the point. It is much more safe for everyone to have cameras on the bus.

In this article you will find how universities can make their students aware of how Fairuse. I know for myself I was not prepared for copyright and fair use but this article is very informative about its purposes. It also includes different links to other helpful sites for copyright and fairuse that may benefit the teacher or students.

A discussion of constructivists curriculums in which Posner played a major role. His 2004 book, Analyzing the Curriculum was popular in education classes, science and psychology classes. He changed the way Americans and educators thought about education. Posner, G. J. (2004). Analyzing the curriculum (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. http://www.etni.org.il/etnirag/issue4/nellie_deutsch.htm