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Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards have put real-world learning and 21st-century skills front and center. This program shows how educators are using technology and project-based learning to bring relevance and rigor into their classrooms.

"In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for both caution and enthusiasm, Weller advocates for a critical...

"This book covers theory to practice, with readers gaining the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful in teaching or training using technology-mediated instruction"--Provided by publisher.

"'Digital Portfolios, Second Edition: Powerful Tools for Promoting Professional Growth and Reflection' provides a framework and strategies for developing a digital portfolio that records professional growth and development goals, and celebrates achievements. This complete resource offers guidelines and techniques for each step in the process, from determining your audience and selecting material from a personal archive, to defining, producing, and...

"This optimistic big-idea book about the philosophy and organization of higher education explains how universities can form creative, adaptive, and integrative graduates who are ready to take on the complex, systemic problems of the contemporary world. The author argues against those who propose to unbundle higher education institutions into discrete providers of goods and services who aim to prepare students for existing professions"

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple of Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs has the story.

It is important to manage your technology use because we rely on it all the time now.

In this program, a literature teacher argues the benefits of on-line learning, while her department chairperson presents arguments against it. Methods used to conduct an effective on-line "class" are demonstrated using state-of-the-art software. Criticism of distance learning includes its tendency to deny student/teacher connections and to inhibit student interaction. Students currently participating in on-line learning programs discuss how it has...

Technology equalizes learning opportunities and expands learning challenges for a wide range of students. Using compelling classroom footage, this program features innovations that are empowering all types of learners. Examples of adaptive technology for physically and visually challenged students include IntelliKeys, TouchWindow, Braille 'n Speak, and audio-based computer software. For those in gifted and talented programs, high-tech role-playing...