eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System (CPS) allows teachers to get real time data while they teach. Sometimes though, there is not time to prepare questions or a teacher simply wants pre-built content.
Examview is a digital content gallery. Over the years it has amassed more than 14,000 standard aligned k12 questions from more than 60 leading text [...]
Clive Thompson recently posted a great article on Wired.com (link to original post). The article, based on the studies of Andrea Lunsford, a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University. The conclusion that Andrea draws is that the digital age of wikis, blogs, email, texting and other communication tools has led to a massive [...]
In the midst of a budget impasse over how much the state should spend on education, Pennsylvania has received accolades for improvement in its state test [...]
The following was brought on by 2 separate roll-outs of RTI solutions by software companies in anticipation of PA establishing statewide RTI guidelines.
If you need a comprehensive description of RTI in PA then www.pattan.net is a good reference site. It breaks the system down into manageable pieces and also [...]
A quick history: in 1971 PA set up 29 Intermediary Units (IU’s) to help educate the educators and integrate technology in the classroom. Each IU has it’s own directors and paid staff to oversee it’s “territory.” The main contacts between the schools and the IU’s are tech savvy teachers, tech and IT directors called [...]