The amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically according to Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year Olds, a new Kaiser Family Foundation study. While researchers have not established a cause and effect relationship between media use and academic performance, it should not come as a [...]

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“Reimagining Learning,” the 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition, was unveiled at the White House on November 23. Set to launch December 14, the $2 million competition sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, seeks proposals that will transform learning using digital media.
Applicants will focus on participatory learning experiences that incorporate the [...]

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When my son’s school sent out an email about funding laptops for all 5th and 6th graders, my first thought was, “Yikes, teachers barely have enough time to cover the material, let alone help a struggling student, and now they’ll need to spend this precious time trying to make lessons fit the technology?”
What I wasn’t [...]

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While touring a high school the other day, I watched a math teacher confiscate a cell phone from a student. That she did it with a raised eyebrow and tilt of her head while continuing to instruct the the class convinced me this was not an isolated case. I assumed the student was surreptitiously texting [...]

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The article How Do We Transform Our Schools? by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn (pictured) is featured in the summer 2008 issue of Education Next, a scholarly journal published by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The authors claim that computer-based learning is on the cusp of transforming traditional public education and that about half [...]

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Instead of writing or typing, students can now use their voices to input text, write papers and emails, search the Web, or control their PC.  With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 by Nuance, you can now talk to your computer and watch the words appear.  Mac users can try MacSpeech Dictate, which uses the Dragon speech recognition [...]

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“The growing use of email gadgets is spawning a generation of resentful children. A look at furtive thumb-typers, the signs of compulsive use and how kids are fighting back,” writes the Wall Street Journal.
As hand-held email devices proliferate, they are having an unexpected impact on family dynamics: Parents and their children are swapping roles. Like [...]

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Are you concerned your child is spending too much time online? Has he disappeared into a virtual world? Maybe he’s going to Harvard!
Via joannejacobs.com an article in the Christian Science Monitor reports on university classes being held within Second Life.
For the first time this fall, a Harvard University class is meeting on its [...]

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BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom reviews Casio’s ClassPad math calculator which you may want to consider for your high school or college student. The exec summary: $150 graphical calculator with a touch-sensitive screen that lets you get a hands-on feel for geometry and algebra. The downside: Texas Instruments dominates this segment and there are entire [...]

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