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T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Matthew Miller	Focus on Assessment Tools Exciting new assessment tools benefit both students and educators. These tools are making teaching simpler and more rewarding for instructors, because they can now concentrate more on their students' education and not on creating documents...
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Judith B. Rajala	Handhelds in Education According to the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan, handheld devices such as Palms are making technology accessible, affordable and fun for teachers and students alike.
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels.
T.H.E. Journal December 3, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson.
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski	A Quicker Clicker When loaded with virtual clicker software, any device takes on the function of a student response system.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Howard Tomlinson	Educational PDA Games Engage Students, Teach Essential Language Skills One kind of handheld gadget is increasingly becoming accepted, encouraged and often provided by the school: PDAs. This is because handheld computers are a much less expensive alternative to laptop or desktop PCs for each student.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010	A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.
T.H.E. Journal February 4, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests.
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Jim Schneider	Focus on Administration and Assessment Software for educational administration and assessment.
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Christine Fox	Elementary Schools : The Time Is Now Early diagnosis of academic deficits is pivotal to keeping students from falling irretrievably behind. Formative assessment technology gives teachers the tools to respond.
T.H.E. Journal July 30, 2009 Bridget McCrea	By the Book: Technology Helps North Carolina School Close the Reading Gap Predictive Assessment of Reading can quickly determine if a child is deficient in phonics, lacking in fluency or in need of more vocabulary instruction.
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 John K. Waters	All Hands on Tech A district finds integrating handheld devices is the way to an effective and cost-effective expansion of its 1-to-1 computing program.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Rama Ramaswami	Artificial Intelligence: Is the Future Now For A.I.? The feds' reliance on standardized testing excludes the use of artificial intelligence, so school districts are forging ahead with the technology to power their own formative assessments.
T.H.E. Journal January 7, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks.
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Barlow & Wetherill	Tech + Imagination = Results Inspired technology initiatives driven by one university project are changing the way teachers instruct and assess, but most importantly, the way today's students learn.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Vanessa Hua	It's All in the Preparation Three different technical tools for college entrance exam preparation.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud	A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard	More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward.
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Justine Brown	Mobile Assessment: Working Smarter, Not Harder With new assessment technology providing instant feedback on their students, once-skeptical teachers now have no desire to return to the way things were.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski	Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 June Ahn	Electronic Portfolios: Blending Technology, Accountability & Assessment Many educators struggle to discover the proper assessment strategies for students. Portfolio-based assessment and, more recently, the electronic portfolio have been seen as an alternative to standardized tests. Includes a list of e-portfolio resource websites.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Sylvia Charp	Assessment and Accountability Assessment and accountability are not new to educators, but they have been brought to the forefront as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to conduct annual mathematics and reading tests in grades 3-8.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed.
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 Beth McBride	Data-Driven Instructional Methods: 'One Strategy Fits All' Doesn't Work in Real Classrooms Differentiated instruction is vital to effecting positive change in student performance.
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 Elizabeth Amberg	Focus on Productivity This month's Focus On examines some of the software titles that are available to help teachers prepare for class, assess their students' abilities, and keep track of student performance...
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010	How a Teacher Gets Graded--and Paid Does spelling count? What goes into calculating a teacher's paycheck.
T.H.E. Journal February 25, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen.
T.H.E. Journal February 2006	Assessment Testing >> In Their Hands Handheld devices empower teachers with assessment data they can put to immediate use.
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 Kevin T. McNulty	Fostering the Student-Centered Classroom Online There are many ways to maximize use of the Internet to benefit student instruction. On my classroom Web site I publish tutorials to assist with classroom instruction, and students use the site as a launchpad to research information...
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Wangemann et al.	Portable Technology Comes of Age The utilization of handhelds in a pilot teacher education program
Energize August 2009 Susan J. Ellis	The Separation of Service-learning from Volunteering...and Does It Matter? Following a long tradition of experiential education, most service-learning programs today were conceived as school reform efforts, giving students the chance to practice or apply what they have learned in the classroom in the real world.
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Neal Starkman	Formative Assessment: Building a Better Student By testing academic performance at regular intervals, formative assessment strategies regard every child as a work in progress.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Paul Tullis	An 'A' in Abstractions In Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have revamped every subject area from K through 12.
T.H.E. Journal March 2008	Activexpression by Promethean Promethean has launched a new student response solution called Activexpression.
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer	Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.
T.H.E. Journal October 15, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Pearson Makes Reading Assessment Software Available for iPod Touch Teachers can turn the Apple iPod Touch into a portable reading assessment tool with the help of software now available for the device from Pearson.
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Larry Hines	Interactive Learning Environment Keeps Modesto Students Engaged The Classroom Performance System provides four district junior high math and science classes with a wireless, collaborative, instant-response learning solution.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 Anya Kamenetz	News Corp. Introduces A New Kind Of Interactivity To The Classroom Amplify is two things: the first touch-screen tablet designed for the educational market and a tablet-based curriculum.
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua	A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 John Watson	The Coming of the Intelligence Age: Enhancing Education Through Assessment In education, there is an interesting convergence developing between assessing and evaluating student capabilities and progress, legislation, technology, and communications. This convergence will naturally lead to an increased use of intelligence systems to collect, manage and report data.
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Sylvia Charp	Assessment and Accountability The No Child Left Behind Act requires the inclusion of all students in state assessment programs, and holds students and educators accountable for performance relative to state standards. However, a number of challenges still need to be addressed.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Reinhard Kargl	Getting an Earful Classroom audio systems have become a must-include component of comprehensive technology upgrades. The point is not just to give more oomph and clarity to teachers' voices, but to have sound quality worthy of the video now commonly streaming to their computers.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009	Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009	Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies.
Information Today August 19, 2014	Google Debuts Paperless Classroom Feature Google's Classroom launched and is available to users of Google Apps for Education, a free suite of productivity tools for teachers.
Information Today January 8, 2009	Nature Education Launches Free Educational Resource--Scitable Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality.
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Bringing That CanDo Spirit An educator's determined effort to update his school's archaic data systems results in a grassroots programming project that promoted student learning.