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Putting Students Front and Center
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Kindergarten Goes Virtual
The Rose Tree Media School District in Pennsylvania will be continuing its Virtual Kindergarten program this year at one of its elementary schools after piloting it during 2007-08. -- THE Journal
Related Edutopia article: Distance-Learning Educators Go the Distance When They Go Offline
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Students Want More Technology, Survey Says
West Virginia students want facilities with more technology. -- Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia)
Related Edutopia video: A Commitment to High Tech
At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner
As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education. -- New York Times
Related Edutopia audio: Integrating Technology Into the Classroom
Studies: Video Games Can Aid Students, Surgeons
Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association Convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools -- from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons. -- Associated Press
Related Edutopia poll: Are computer and video games effective teaching tools?
'MindLadder' Suggests Future of Assessment
A next-generation program reveals how a student's mind processes information and how to use resulting insights to "reach to teach." -- eSchoolNews
Related Edutopia article: The Role of Technology in Supporting and Enhancing Assessment
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Opportunities and Resources
The George Lucas Educational Foundation Grant Information List
The Future is Already Here (ongoing Second Life series; topics include Web 2.0, one-to-one computing, robotics, and Serious Gaming/3D Web)
Fresh Start for Donated Computers (provides license documentation and Windows-installation CDs at no cost for the Windows 2000 operating system on qualifying donated personal computers)
PDF; ITEA Corporate-Member Product Directory (listing of International Technology Education Association's corporate-member tech products)
3Com Summer School Sweepstakes (deadline October 31; random drawing for two Fujistu Lifebook laptops)
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