Imagine a learning experience, supported and extended by the application of

technology, that empowers students to create and contribute, all within the

context of what they are expected to know and be able to do in the 21st Century.…

The Impact of Images: Considering the Place of Photojournalism Today…

An interest or career in art is definitely a strong possibility for anyone who has…

Nine in 10 teachers say that not all of their students could leave high school prepared to succeed in college. When asked to choose the one out of five possible reasons why, teachers across all grade levels are fairly evenly dispersed across three core components needed for success, which include both in-school and out-of-school elements:…

Virtual Environments Enable New Models of Learning…

It's very likely that the Web your teen is using is very different from the one you've gotten to know over the last decade. In addition to serving up a seemingly bottomless stream of…

CJ Pascoe, a sociologist…

A social studies teacher for 11 years,…

Most of us take vision for granted. We seem to do it so effortlessly. Yet preceiving images, objects, color and motion is a very complicated process. The study of optical illuions (see lecture below) will prove beyond a doubt that the human eye is not a camera.…

In a country where the number of mobile phones exceeds the number of people (ComReg, 2006) mobile devices can play a vital role in teaching and learning. Unfortunately many schools still prohibit…