Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
Frugal administrators and classroom teachers will be encouraged to know there are ways to bring computers into the classroom even during the current fiscal crisis and time of tight budgets. Public / private sector collaboration makes this possible. It was my privilege to support the Silicon Valley Student’s Recycling Used Technology program (StRUT) by distributing
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The iCalifornia campaign is a collaborative initiative that will promote and foster digital literacy and digital citizenship in California. I attended the kickoff and was very impressed by the quality of leadership and the level of commitment that is being brought to bear on the critical question of how can we act to ensure all
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California is honored by two California teachers who coached winning teams in the Oracle Education Foundation’s ThinkQuest Competition. Two of the four teams that won in the international competition are from California! This is an amazing accomplishment because the winners were selected from among 7,603 teams and represented China, Great Britain, Greece, India, Indonesia, Maldives,
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Teachers now have excellent free resources to help student’s master particular subjects when they want and at their own pace. The Kahn Academy is using technology to transform instruction in the classroom, and provides a free library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises. Introduction to
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