How to Rescue Education Reform - 1 views
How to Rescue Education Reform Gracía Lam By FREDERICK M. HESS and LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND Published: December 5, 2011 SHARE THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform ac...
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MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses - 2 views
December 19, 2011 By Marc Parry Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseW...
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards - 3 views
I see this development as good and bad. Firstly, what will CS replace in current curricula? You cannot add something without giving up something else. That said, CS has the benefit of teaching e...
State High School Tests: Changes in State Policies and the Impact of the College and Ca... - 1 views
Last week, the Center on Education Policy released its 10th annual report on state high school testing policies. State High School Tests: Changes in State Policies and the Impact of the College and...
Does Technology Spending Amount to a New Utility Bill? - 1 views
Telecompetitor.com By Andrew Burger With Americans spending 6%-12% of their incomes on utility bills, the rising cost of energy and other natural resources, e.g. water, continues to be a major...
CHEATING ON THE SATS - 0 views
From CBS 60 Minutes [TV program], Sunday, January 1, 2012 -- you can view the segment at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57348498/the-perfect-score-cheating-on-the-sat/ and also read the s...
More Wireless Broadband Is What Consumers Want, U.S. Needs to Close the Digital Divide - 3 views
I will look for another reference.
Pathways to Prosperity Report , Harvard University - 1 views
"By concentrating too much on classroom-based academics with four-year college as a goal, the nation's education system has failed vast numbers of students, who instead need solid preparation for ...
Transforming Higher Education with IT - 2 views
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 1101 K Street NW (Suite 610A) Washington, DC 20005 President Obama recently an...
Feds launch open-source 'Learning Registry' - 2 views
A new federal resource will help groups share learning materials and policy recommendations as they strive to improve the quality and availability of learning resources in education. Launched ...
Momentum Growing for State-Level Telecom Deregulation - 1 views
Telecompetitor.com By Joan Engebretson New Hampshire last week became the latest state to adopt telecom legislation that gives incumbent local exchange carriers more flexibility in making changes...
Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age - 1 views
Submitted: June 9, 2011 - 3:29pm Originally published: June 9, 2011 Last updated: June 9, 2011 - 3:35pm Source: Federal Communications Commission Author: press release Location: Federal Communicati...
Plan Would Force U. of Wisconsin to Return $39-Million in U.S. Broadband Grants - Wired... - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 09 Jun 11"June 8, 2011, 7:01 pm By Marc Parry A budget approved by a legislative committee last week would force the University of Wisconsin to return $39-million in federal grants awarded to expand high-speed Internet access across the state, state education officials said. The plan would also require all University of Wisconsin institutions to withdraw from WiscNet, a nonprofit network cooperative that services the public universities, most of the technical and private colleges in Wisconsin, about 75 percent of the state's elementary and high schools, and 95 percent of its public libraries, according to David F. Giroux, a spokesman for the university system. (...) Another provision in the plan would bar any University of Wisconsin campus from participating in advanced networks connecting research institutions worldwide, according to Mr. Evers's memo. For example, the Madison campus would have to withdraw from Internet2, a high-speed networking consortium, said Mr. Giroux."
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Claude Almansi on 09 Jun 11That's what Lessig had in mind when he said: "Think about the question of broadband policy. (…) The US has been a dismal failure in this respect. As we watch the US going from number 1 in broadband penetration, now to, depending on the scale, number 18, 19, or 28. And that change is because of policies that effectively block competition for broadband providers. Their answer, these broadband providers brought to our government, and got our government to impose actually benefited them and destroyed the incentives for them to compete in a way that would drive broadband penetration. (…)" From Lessig's Keynote Address at g8 7:48 - 8:42 - http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/C6wmjKWrZwlP/
Genachowski: Broadband Adoption "Just Not Good Enough" - 1 views
Broadcasting and Cable By John Eggerton FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday that the pace of broadband adoption is too slow and called on cable operators to step up their efforts. For ...
875 TEDTalks in a Neat Spreadsheet and Ted Books - 2 views
875 TEDTalks in a Neat Spreadsheet http://www.openculture.com/2011/02/875_ted_talks_in_a_spreadsheet.html in TED Talks 207 481 A quick fyi for TED heads in our audience: Right here, you can find ...
Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging the Digit... - 3 views
Home http://www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/ictgeographies.html Download the Complete Book (3mb): Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for ...
XSEDE Education and Outreach - 2 views
Education, and Outreach Service mission is driven by the critical need to advance computational science and engineering by recruiting, preparing, and sustaining a large and diverse scientific acade...
Save Our Schools Initiative - 0 views
Teachers kick off Save Our Schools rally in Washington, D.C. A four-day rally known as the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action is taking place in Washington, D.C., with teachers gath...
College-Made Device Helps Visually Impaired Students See and Take Notes - Wired Campus ... - 0 views
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"August 1, 2011, 5:51 pm By Rachel Wiseman College students with very poor vision have had to struggle to see a blackboard and take notes-basic tasks that can hold some back. Now a team of four students from Arizona State University has designed a system, called Note-Taker, that couples a tablet PC and a video camera, and could be a major advance over the small eyeglass-mounted telescopes that many students have had to rely on. It recently won second place in Microsoft's Imagine Cup technology competition. (...) The result was Note-Taker, which connects a tablet PC (a laptop with a screen you can write on) to a high-resolution video camera. Screen commands get the camera to pan and zoom. The video footage, along with audio, can be played in real time on the tablet and are also saved for later reference. Alongside the video is a space for typed or handwritten notes, which students can jot down using a stylus. That should be helpful in math and science courses, says Mr. Hayden, where students need to copy down graphs, charts, and symbols not readily available on a keyboard. (...) But no tool can replace institutional support, says Chris S. Danielsen, director of public relations for the [NFB]. "The university is always going to have to make sure that whatever technology it uses is accessible to blind and low-vision students," he says. (Arizona State U. has gotten in hot water in the past in just this area.) (...) This entry was posted in Gadgets."
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In "(Arizona State U. has gotten in hot water in the past in just this area.)" the words "in the past" are linked to http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/ , about a Spanish work book inaccessible to blind students, with a reference to the lawsuit against Arizona State U over the adoption of the Kindle. So classifying this post in "Gadgets" is particularly paradoxical: in fact one reason why Arizona State U. was sued over the adoption of the Kindle was that Amazon presented its text-to-speech as a gadget.
URLs of bookmarks? - 1 views
Hi Bonnie Though I've been using Diigo for years, I'm still baffled by the changing appearance of bookmarks depending on whether one is signed in or not, and whether the bookmark is mine or someon...
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