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Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people and projects using technology to help internet users understand, participate and take control of their online lives. I’ve done a bit of head-scratching over what one possible Drumbeat project aimed at K-12 education might look like. If you have an interest in helping K-12 education make better [...] Apple has finally taken the wraps off the iPad, a device that many in the edtech community have been eagerly awaiting. Is it, as some have opined, the perfect machine around which to build a K-12 1:1 computing program? I’m sure we will see some school adoptions, but there are problems. Not [...] The Mozilla Foundation invites you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online as part of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. For this Design Challenge they are looking for innovative Firefox add-ons that turn the open Web into a rich learning environment. Jetpack [...] Mozilla Labs has a plug-in for the awesome Firefox browser that helps them collect information about how people use the browser. As with all things Mozilla, the Test Pilot plug-in is open. It shows you all of the data it has collected and lets you decide whether or not to send it along to [...] It’s a common misconception that the web isn’t a useful educational tool for very young students, particularly pre-readers. That is simply not true. Over the last year and a half, I’ve been working on a project called Curiosity Clubhouse that uses computers, both in the classroom and at home, to help kindergarten students learn. [...] There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world. JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The folks over at AcademicBenchmarks.org have posted a report card on U.S. curriculum standards publishing efforts. It’s important reading for anyone interested in improving K-12 education in this country. Their Standards Digital Deployment Report is an assessment of how well each state does in the digital deployment of curriculum standards. The report rates [...] Tom Greaves (@twgreaves) and I are working on this year’s Mobile Trends Report for the Software & Information Industry Association’s Education Division. Big issues this year include: The blossoming of Netbooks in the education market that was just beginning last year at this time. While technology isn’t going to fix everything that’s wrong with the K-12 education system in the United States, there are some areas where it has the potential to make huge inroads in dealing with some fundamental problems. The “one-to-one” movement is finally gaining a bit of traction. One-to-one computing is quite [...] |
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