Live from Newark: TEDxNJIT Simulcast, March 23, 2012 to viewers worldwide
New Jersey Institute of Technology A TEDxNJIT event will take place again on March 23, 2012 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the New Jersey Institute of Technology campus and also via an accompanying live simulcast broadcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, will focus on sustainability and will feature [...]
PNC students develop WebQuests for elementary students
Purdue University North Central Elementary Education students who were enrolled in the fall semester online section of the course, Integrating Technology into the Classroom have created a variety of inquiry-based web resources for use by the teachers and students of Lake Hills STEM Magnet Elementary School in Michigan City. During the fall 2011 semester, Erin [...]
Notes Toward a Toy Model of the Arrow of Time
I’m fairly certain somebody has already done this, because it’s such an obvious idea. It’s a little beyond my cargo-cult VPython skills right at the moment, though (I can probably learn to do it, but not right now), and I none of the applets I Googled up seemed to be doing this, so I’m posting [...]
Three principals share instructional leadership tips
School leaders play an important role in guiding educators as they strive to improve student achievement. School principals, charged with so many tasks already, also must be confident instructional leaders who can help teachers organize instruction, comprehend standards, and develop curriculum. During a Jan. 12 Education Trust webinar about how principals can be strong, positive, [...]
Major variation in bladder cancer subtype trends highlights need for focused research
Wiley-Blackwell Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease. A major study of nearly 128,000 American bladder cancer cases, published in the January edition of the urology journal BJUI, shows that [...]
Springhurst Music Teacher Uses Technology to Unlock Creativity
Springhurst music teacher Vi Taylor took Dr. Scott Watson’s course “Garage Band Does it All” in 2009 at Central Connecticut State University. The final project was to design a lesson she would use in her classroom, utilizing that particular software, and present it to her classmates. Little did she know at the time that her [...]