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Whether they're using an adaptive product to offer some blended opportunities or are redesigning the entire day to deliver a comprehensive blended experience, many schools are seeing positive results from [...]

TALKING ENCOURAGED When Sheri McNair, library media specialist at James I. O'Neill High School in Highland Falls, NY, came to her district four years ago, she stepped into a very [...]

Back in the days of the one-size-fits-all curriculum, teachers knew that only a small subset of any class was grasping the materials they presented. One of the greatest benefits--perhaps the [...]

The districts in this story have practiced what we at Tech & Learning preach: You can't start your 1:1 program with the device! First, you have to come up with [...]

Although those of us with declining eyesight might he holding out for larger-than life-sized monitors, our students have embraced smaller-is-better as they pop their devices into their back pockets and [...]

Whether you're in a 1:1, BYOD, or combo program, or somewhere on the continuum, mobile device management (MDM) software can be a CIO's best friend. These days, there may be [...]

From chatbots to discussion platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) is popping up at campuses all over the globe. In fact, the recent AI in Education Market Research Report from Research and [...]

CROWDSOURCING FOR FUNDING When administrators at Poway (CA) Unified School District wanted to drive innovation last year, they decided to try crowdsourcing and launched a social media site called Innovation [...]

Nothing evokes as much rear in a teacher's mind as the thought of his or her principal or other administrator popping in on a random Tuesday morning and saying, 'Hi! [...]

Virtual Reality (VR) and its second-cousin-once-removed, augmented reality (AR), are coming to schools near you. And teachers can't say enough positive things about the experiences their students are having with [...]

These days many teachers are thinking about flipping their classrooms. In case you've been offline for the last year, flipping a class means taking normal classroom activities, such as lectures [...]

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS Field trips aside, most teachers don't willingly hop onto big yellow buses, but at Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona, teachers are signing up to board [...]

Last month we wrote about the evolution of one-to-one computing and how districts are allowing students to 'bring your own device' (BYOD) to school. This month we look at how [...]

'For years, everyone saw the laptop as the magic bullet for integrating technology,' says Lewis Wynn, director of technology operations for Rockdale (TX) Independent School District. 'It's no longer about [...]

Forget auld acquaintances and don't worry about resolutions, the most popular thing to do this time of year is to make predictions for the next 12 months. See below for [...]

THANKS TO LECTURE CAPTURE, JULIA MARTY COMPLETED HER JUNIOR year at Northeastern University (Mass.) this spring, the Office of Student-Athlete Support Services (SASS) offers student-athletes access to videos of missed [...]

Teachers often say they wish they had stronger communication with their families, but it's one of a thousand things on their plates and can be hard to solve. Look no [...]

WHETHER YOUR DISTRICT HIRES TWO OR 2,000 TEACHERS EACH YEAR, it's a challenging process. First, you need to make sure you're tapping into the best pool of candidates. Then you [...]

If EduComm '05 was any indication, there's an audio/visual revolution occurring in our schools. The EduComm conference, held in June in conjunction with InfoComm, provided ample evidence of the convergence [...]

Whether you live in a state that supports PARCC or SBAC, you're undoubtedly facing the challenges of moving to online assessments. From the infrastructure to the devices to the children [...]

So you're letting your students BYOD and it's going well. You're saving money because students are bringing in their own technology, teachers are excited to be using digital resources, and [...]

For most T&L stories, we turn to our readers for their advice and insight about stronger and smarter tech integration. For BYOD (bring your own device), however, we've already done [...]

Regardless of how it's implemented, let's define blended learning as a combination of offline and online learning. Although each district envisions and handles it differently, we can all agree that [...]

As a result of our economic crisis, school districts are required to think more strategically about money than ever before. 'We can no longed& by the seat of our pants,' [...]

It's hard to go a day without seeing an article about the Common Core standards (www.corestandards.org). The final standards released in June 2010 have been adopted by all states except [...]

Two years ago, Eric Sheninger was no fan of social media. 'Like most principals, I felt that YouTube, Facebook and Twitter had no place in education and were a distraction [...]

Did you hear the one about the math teachers who came back from a conference with software that their network administrator refused to load on the system? Or how about […]

A district can take many steps to ensure that its students are protected from harmful, obscene, or otherwise unworthy Web sites. It can establish guidelines for appropriate Internet usage, create […]

Quick, tell us: How many laptops are in your middle schools? Which ones are about to come off warranty? Did your tech department finish updating all the software licensing? If […]

GET MORE COMPUTING POWER FOR LESS. Steve Young, chief technology officer of Judson Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, replaced 418 old computers with new, energy-efficient PCs. The new […]

Have you heard about digital badging? Although it isn't mainstream yet, the districts that are already doing it say that their teachers are responding quite favorably. First, however, you should [...]

In the spring of 2013, Tim Hooks became transportation director at Huntsville (TX) Independent School District. Hooks, who had an administrative background, saw his job as going beyond simply managing [...]

Surely you've heard the not-so-funny joke that if Rip Van Winkle were to wake up today he'd recognize only one thing: the classroom, with its cookie- cutter rows of desks [...]

At ISTE 2015, 'data' continued to drive many conversations. Is it safe? Is it valuable? Can you actually personalize learning with data? It is unlikely that any one tool will [...]

Four different schools share how they use various forms of assistive technology to help students with disabi i ties perform tasks more readily and become more independent. ALL STUDENTS CAN [...]

Teachers say that document cameras change the way they teach. Because the cameras allow them to place any object under the lens and project it in full color onto a [...]

Today's projectors are getting smaller, cheaper, and smarter, thanks to rapidly evolving projection technology. While 3D and 'green' projectors are quickly filling the business and consumer markets, these tools are [...]

Audio-visual technology or the use of sound and pictures to convey information--has come a long way in a short time. We've gone from overhead projectors and impossible-to-program VCRs to flat-screen [...]

In summer 2007, Randolph (NJ) Township Schools created a wiki on which administrators and supervisors could discuss Grant Wiggins's Understanding by Design. 'At first people rolled their eyes, but once [...]

'GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY want!' That could be the slogan for the Digital Door Project at Denver Public Schools (DPS). When the district decided to gather the data from [...]

State departments of education in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming have partnered with Discovery Education to make the year-old Discovery Health Connection available to every school district [...]

First, we saw textbooks on CD. Then publishers began offering online subscription services that featured updates and corrected mistakes as well as provided links to resources and virtual field trips. [...]