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Augmented Reality Helps Kids Learn

Researchers at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a project that uses "augmented reality" to teach students math and literacy skills. The project involves teams of students gathering data on handheld computers to explain […]   Augmented Reality Helps Kids Learn »

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Study: eBooks Could Spark Interest in Reading

A team of researchers at Ball State University’s Center for Information and Communications Sciences has released the results of a small-scale study suggesting that wireless handheld devices, or eBooks, could help encourage reading among students who are […]   Study: eBooks Could Spark Interest in Reading »

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Wellesley College to Offer Instruction in Swahili

Wellesley College, the college for women outside Boston, has announced that, starting this fall, it will offer students instruction in the African language of Swahili. The language is spoken by an estimated 50 million people in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda […]   Wellesley College to Offer Instruction in Swahili »

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3 Teachers Travel 7,000 Miles to Teach Mandarin in

3 teachers will spend the current school year in Saginaw, Michigan, teaching Mandarin Chinese to students at Arthur Eddy Academy, Handley Elementary School, and Zilwaukee School. Saginaw is among several school districts the Michigan Department of Education […]   3 Teachers Travel 7,000 Miles to Teach Mandarin in »

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More languages in the classroom, less time for English

In Ventnor, N.J., not far from Atlantic City, there are 19 languages represented among the town's 1,000 students. One English-as-a-second-language class has five seventh-graders with four native languages: Albanian, German, Spanish and Vietnamese. Increasingly […]   More languages in the classroom, less time for English »

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Musical Software Improves Students' Reading

Tune In to Reading software, has been installed in 66 Florida schools since the beginning of the school year, including 11 in Hillsborough County and 11 in Pinellas. This month, Tune In to Reading software will be installed at two schools in New York. […]   Musical Software Improves Students' Reading »

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Helping Young People in the New Participatory Culture

Erin B. Reilly, Research Director for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world, and how we preapre […]   Helping Young People in the New Participatory Culture »

Fast ForWard Signal

Fast ForWard

Fast ForWard is a line of computerized reading interventions designed to help the brain process more efficiently. Many case studies document its effectiveness, but “scientifically based research” calls that result into question. (See “Fast ForWord Popular […]   Fast ForWard »

Global SchoolNet.Org Signal

Global SchoolNet.Org

Global SchoolNet is a clearinghouse for “global learning projects.” It has been in operation since 1995. A number of the projects are “aligned with the 21st Century Learning Skills matrix, the ICT Literacy Maps, especially in Science, Geography and English […]   Global SchoolNet.Org »