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News

With information access so easy, truth can be elusive
"Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy. When students
do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often
about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at
all, many students gladly will."
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-12-07-
online-truth-elusive_x.htm

School's new equipment pushes the right buttons
"When the math teacher asks a question at Don Estridge High Tech
Middle School, there's no need for students to raise their hands. They
click their remote controls. Don Estridge is the first school in Palm Beach
County to use the Classroom Performance Systems, which were
introduced in 2000 and are in use in 25,000 classrooms across the
country, according to a company Web site."
URL: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/sfl-cpcps29nov29,0,
4670502.story?coll=sfla-news-educations
Referred by: TechLEARNING

Wireless Lab Updates Consumer Science Instruction
"Family and consumer sciences teacher Charlotte Mohling takes a
modern-day one-room schoolhouse approach to her job. Mohling, who
has taught at the Wessington Springs School District her entire 28-year
career, traded her one-subject-per-period classroom for a wireless
computer lab offering self-paced instruction. Students come in, grab a
laptop and get to work on one of the nine technology or six consumer
science courses she designed, as diverse as desktop publishing, computer
animation and parenting. "I truly like teaching this way," she says. The
lab puts students in charge of their own learning."
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-28-mohling-
usat_x.htm?csp=36
Referred by: TechLEARNING

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Funding

FUNDS TO HELP UNDERSERVED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
"The Tiger Woods Foundation focuses on providing opportunities to
children and families who are underserved. The Foundation primarily
funds nonprofit organizations, programs and projects that are based in
urban American cities. Areas of interest include education, youth
development, parenting, and family health and welfare. The next
application deadline is February 1, 2005."
URL: http://www.twfound.org
Referred by: CTCNet GrantStation Insider

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Resources

TECH TONIC: TOWARDS A NEW LITERACY OF TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
"The high-tech, screen-centered life style of today's children -- at home
and at school -- is a health hazard and the polar opposite of the
education they need to take part in making ethical choices in a high-tech
democracy. A new report by the Alliance for Childhood challenges
education standards and industry assertions that all teachers and
children, from preschool up, should use computers in the classroom to
develop technology literacy. That expensive agenda ignores evidence
that high-tech classrooms have done little if anything to improve student
achievement, the report says. The report strongly criticizes the extensive
financial and political connections between education officials and school
technology vendors. It urges citizens to wake up to the increasing
influence of corporations in policymaking for public education.... It is time
for concerted citizen action to reclaim childhood for children."
URL: http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/
Referred by: PEN Weekly NewsBlast

Strategies That Work: Electronic Portfolios
"A student portfolio is a representative sampling of a student's work
designed to highlight the student's best work, demonstrate the student's
progress over time, make the work available for evaluation, and/or
provide opportunities for the student to reflect on his or her work. Learn
More About Electronic Portfolios: Electronic Portfolios in the K-12
Classroom; Using Hyperlinks to Create Student Portfolios; E-Portfolio
Fever"
URL: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy055.shtml
Referred by: Education World Newsletter

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Research

Attachment, Bonding, Connectedness, and Engagement: What Do
They Mean and How are They Measured?
"In the September issue of the Journal of School Health, Heather Libbey
identifies the various concepts and assessment tools researchers use to
measure student attachment to school. Among them she finds nine main
themes: academic engagement, belonging, discipline and fairness, liking
for school, student voice, extracurricular activities, peer relations, safety,
and teacher support. A summary of the article is on CASEL's web site,
along with summaries of five related studies in the September issue of the
Journal of School Health.... Shane Jimerson and colleagues also provide
an overview of definitions and measures related to school engagement in
their recent article in the California School Psychologist. They stress
three dimensions of school engagement-affective, behavioral, and
cognitive...."
URL: http://www.casel.org/sel_resources/learningenvirorecs.php
Referred by: CASEL Connections E-Newsletter

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