Sometimes it makes sense to roll out a brand-new IT infrastructure.
School districts say access to FCC funds has given their telecom and Internet strategies a major lift.
IT leaders devise defensive mobile computing security strategies to protect students, computers and the educational mission.
Ask these five questions before deploying virtualization in your school district.
Students explore great moments in the past and build web skills along the way.
Students use computers to create comic book characters that bring the parts of the cell alive.
Technology, science and history merge to shed light on the world of inventions.
Students use technology to raise awareness about the conflict in Darfur.
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Schools find document cameras motivate students in classrooms across the country.
Lorain City Schools expects big results from its one-to-one netbook program.
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The difference between amassing technology and actually building a 21st-century school boiled down to one simple ingredient for a parochial school in Florida: location.
Funding is the key issue, but these districts have solved the dilemma in creative ways.
A handful of innovative high schools across the country are mixing technology and project-based learning to redesign their schools. Find out what they are learning and how it will affect your schools.
For some K–12 IT teams, iSCSI is the pick; others favor Fibre Channel. What storage is right for your district?
School districts turn to archiving systems to manage mountains of messages.
While school IT coordinators’ job responsibilities continue to expand, the surprise is that some of the most important skills have little to do with hardware or software.
A school district in Phoenix uses classroom technology to help bring its state assessment scores up to speed.
New Millennium Secondary School offers students a tech-intensive high school education that prepares them for college and their future careers.
Schuylerville CSD provides assistive technologies to meet students’ special needs.
Atlanta teacher gives promising youths a helping hand.
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If you spend a good portion of your day sitting in front of a desktop computer, toting your notebook or netbook to meetings, or checking your handheld device for updated information, you realize how important the digital world is for gathering information and acting upon it.
Since the moment that Portland Public Schools in Oregon decided it would deploy Voice over Internet Protocol phones to every classroom in the district, people have asked why we chose VoIP as opposed to a traditional phone system.
What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21st century?
I'm always interested in finding new ways to learn quickly and efficiently.
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Minicomputers are adding mobility and flexibility to K–12 classrooms across the country.
As school districts rely more on wireless, some are finding management and protection a challenge.
The latest version of this MIT software encourages students to learn through their own simulations.
Investigating ways to include augmented reality in today’s classrooms.
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