6/21-Ed Tech in the News
Data Systems
Shift in Tech Funding Focuses on Data Systems
Public schools pressured to keep up with state and federal testing requirements are spending millions on high-tech systems to track and catalog their kids at the same time the federal government is cutting funding for the very same technology.
The idea is that by extensively tracking students' past performance and making that information available to teachers in a timely manner, teachers can individualize instruction to give kids a better chance of passing standardized tests.
In its annual national study on technology use in schools, the trade magazine Education Week found 15 states, including Texas, are focusing more technology funding on data management and collection as a direct result of No Child Left Behind requirements.
( LaCoste-Caputo, San Antonio Express News)
Grants
NCLB-Funded Grant Brings Tech to Minority Schools
"Between hours spent working at the Calumet City Cultural Center and going to high school this spring, Adrieono Shanklin built computers from scratch. The 15-year-old Thornton Fractional North student was one of 28 participating in Project Elevate, a collaborative effort between Calumet City and Chicago State University's Community Technology Center. Adrieono and his classmates get to keep the computers they worked on for eight weeks.It will be the only working computer in the Shanklin household when it arrives."
"Making a computer seemed like it would be fun," said Adrieono, who received a certificate of completion Friday night. The program, now in its second year, is aimed at bringing technology to low-income neighborhoods and schools with a glut of students who traditionally fail to meet reading, math and language arts standards set in the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The Calumet City program is funded with a grant from the act." (Holt, Chicago Tribune)
Distance Education
Video Conferencing Used to Teach Future Teachers
"Karen C. Newtzie is trying to be in several places at once. She is teaching in four classrooms simultaneously, sitting in one of them while watching three others on video screens."
"The course is jointly taught by Ms. Newtzie and four other instructors in the Virginia Community College System, who are also spread out around the state. It is part of a statewide program called Career Switchers, which was started in 2004 for adults who want to change careers and become teachers in math or science."
"An emerging technology called "video over IP," which allows video signals to be transmitted via Internet Protocol over standard computer networks, brings everyone in the course together. Just a few years ago, when broadband connections were not as widespread, videoconferences could happen only on specialized and expensive networks. Now video over IP is proliferating, enabling distance-education professors to watch the animated expressions (or blank, bored faces) of their students no matter how far away they may be."
(Guernsey, Chronicle of Higher Education)
Other News
Texas High School Uses Online College Counseling
"Beginning this summer, students will have access to an online college admissions counseling service customized for Centennial High and run by the school's counselors.
Students will be able to sign on from home and schedule college visits, order transcripts and call up information about scholarships and other financial aid, she said."
"Centennial's counselors expect wide use of the site, Ms. Clair said. Ninety-five percent of the school's families have Internet access at home. And about 90 percent of Frisco's students head for college, according to district figures. "
(Jackson, Dallas Morning News)
Lack of Funding Citied for Kentucky's Limited Technology Access
"Kentucky once drew national praise for its aggressive efforts to bring computers into the classroom, but lately the state has stumbled in the race to keep pace with technology.
Just five years ago, Kentucky led other states in providing and using computer technology in schools. Now 75 percent of student computers are considered too old to run modern software programs."
"The problem is money. State education officials say the state hasn't earmarked sufficient money for technology, especially in the past four or five years." "With an ever-shrinking state dollar for technology, school districts have shouldered more of the burden to pay for new computers and upgrades. The results have shown in increasing reliance on older equipment."
(Harden, The Kentucky Post)
Shift in Tech Funding Focuses on Data Systems
Public schools pressured to keep up with state and federal testing requirements are spending millions on high-tech systems to track and catalog their kids at the same time the federal government is cutting funding for the very same technology.
The idea is that by extensively tracking students' past performance and making that information available to teachers in a timely manner, teachers can individualize instruction to give kids a better chance of passing standardized tests.
In its annual national study on technology use in schools, the trade magazine Education Week found 15 states, including Texas, are focusing more technology funding on data management and collection as a direct result of No Child Left Behind requirements.
( LaCoste-Caputo, San Antonio Express News)
Grants
NCLB-Funded Grant Brings Tech to Minority Schools
"Between hours spent working at the Calumet City Cultural Center and going to high school this spring, Adrieono Shanklin built computers from scratch. The 15-year-old Thornton Fractional North student was one of 28 participating in Project Elevate, a collaborative effort between Calumet City and Chicago State University's Community Technology Center. Adrieono and his classmates get to keep the computers they worked on for eight weeks.It will be the only working computer in the Shanklin household when it arrives."
"Making a computer seemed like it would be fun," said Adrieono, who received a certificate of completion Friday night. The program, now in its second year, is aimed at bringing technology to low-income neighborhoods and schools with a glut of students who traditionally fail to meet reading, math and language arts standards set in the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The Calumet City program is funded with a grant from the act." (Holt, Chicago Tribune)
Distance Education
Video Conferencing Used to Teach Future Teachers
"Karen C. Newtzie is trying to be in several places at once. She is teaching in four classrooms simultaneously, sitting in one of them while watching three others on video screens."
"The course is jointly taught by Ms. Newtzie and four other instructors in the Virginia Community College System, who are also spread out around the state. It is part of a statewide program called Career Switchers, which was started in 2004 for adults who want to change careers and become teachers in math or science."
"An emerging technology called "video over IP," which allows video signals to be transmitted via Internet Protocol over standard computer networks, brings everyone in the course together. Just a few years ago, when broadband connections were not as widespread, videoconferences could happen only on specialized and expensive networks. Now video over IP is proliferating, enabling distance-education professors to watch the animated expressions (or blank, bored faces) of their students no matter how far away they may be."
(Guernsey, Chronicle of Higher Education)
Other News
Texas High School Uses Online College Counseling
"Beginning this summer, students will have access to an online college admissions counseling service customized for Centennial High and run by the school's counselors.
Students will be able to sign on from home and schedule college visits, order transcripts and call up information about scholarships and other financial aid, she said."
"Centennial's counselors expect wide use of the site, Ms. Clair said. Ninety-five percent of the school's families have Internet access at home. And about 90 percent of Frisco's students head for college, according to district figures. "
(Jackson, Dallas Morning News)
Lack of Funding Citied for Kentucky's Limited Technology Access
"Kentucky once drew national praise for its aggressive efforts to bring computers into the classroom, but lately the state has stumbled in the race to keep pace with technology.
Just five years ago, Kentucky led other states in providing and using computer technology in schools. Now 75 percent of student computers are considered too old to run modern software programs."
"The problem is money. State education officials say the state hasn't earmarked sufficient money for technology, especially in the past four or five years." "With an ever-shrinking state dollar for technology, school districts have shouldered more of the burden to pay for new computers and upgrades. The results have shown in increasing reliance on older equipment."
(Harden, The Kentucky Post)
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