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Johnson, Doug – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2010
Web-based applications offer teachers, students, and school districts a convenient way to accomplish a wide range of tasks, from accounting to word processing, for free. Cloud computing has the potential to offer staff and students better services at a lower cost than the technology deployment models they're using now. Saving money and improving…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Software, Computers, Users (Information)
Camhi, Shari L. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2010
When new leadership assumed responsibility for the Glen Cove School District back in 2005, it was in dire need of a makeover. State test scores were dismal, and its high school had fallen onto the New York Schools in Need of Regents Review list. Failed budgets had forced the district to operate under contingency restrictions, including a…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Technology Uses in Education
Warlick, David – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2009
Personal learning networks (PLNs) are not new. People have long relied on their families, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to supplement their knowledge about the world. But the times are changing. Information and communication technologies (ICT), including an ever-growing repertoire of open source applications, have freed content from the…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education
Wargo, Edwin – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2006
If technology can affect student learning, shouldn't it be considered in making decisions? Data-driven decision making models include data from curriculum, instruction, test scores, lunch programs, budgets, and transportation. None of the current models include anything about technology. The challenge with any type of data-driven decision making…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Decision Making, Computer Software, Information Technology
Royer, Regina D.; Richards, Patricia O. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2005
In this edition of Learning Connections, the authors show how technology can enhance study of weather patterns, reading comprehension, real-world training, critical thinking, health education, and art criticism. The following sections are included: (1) Social Studies; (2) Language Arts; (3) Computer Science and ICT; (4) Art; and (5) Health.…
Descriptors: Weather, Reading Comprehension, Health Education, Art Criticism
Oakes, Celeste – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1996
A teacher describes how she integrated telecommunications and Internet technology into her first-grade language arts curriculum. The use of electronic mail to communicate with other student penpals generated student enthusiasm and motivation which improved reading and writing skills. Other projects included researching questions using Internet…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Grade 1, Information Technology