David Warlick posts insightfully about the uses of technology in education. Right now he seems like a pretty stressed out guy.
I’m not an educator (though I do work in education via nonprofit evaluation). And I don’t get quite as excited as he does when discussing the latest crop of communication technologies.
But in one of [...]

The Digital Library for Earth Systems Education is a good example of the potential for using the web as a community repository of educational resources.
Unlike some of the other educational websites I’ve seen (which typically distribute prepackaged course materials), the DLESE has a strong emphasis on community input.
Having been around since 2001, it [...]

The Scottish government has an excellent collection of resources regarding the use of Information Communication Technology in classrooms. They have multi-part articles grouped by subject (Biology, Drama, Physics), and examples of how, for example, you can show students living cells using microscope and digital camera, or how to use th einternet to teach French. Most [...]

Here’s a link to a nice comparison of Google Scholar and Scrius. It points out that Google Scholar has become neglected and is no longer updated regularly. This is a super-unfortunate development; Google is the web’s best hope for easy, inexpensive archiving of scholarly research. (In other news, however, Amazon is now offering scholarly articles [...]

Evaluation is an important, albeit rarefied, science of promoting nonprofit organizations. Do you need to measure the effectiveness of a specific program — or your entire organization? Well, there’s an entire discipline devoted to helping you do just that.
Unfortunately, as with most rarefied, important sciences, the “discipline” part tends to mean something more like [...]

Summary: There is a new, exciting model for programs exporting technology to the developing world. But the real issue is about education, not just setting up a rural network.

Here’s the scene: A decade after the technology-sector collapse in the highly industrialized world, a humbled tech industry has begun to take interest in exporting basic [...]

Here’s a neat article on scholarly blogs from 2003 in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s outdated but excellent, framing the issue in real-world concerns of “academic posturing” vs. “realtime idea exchanges.”
Here’s what I mean:
“In their skeptical moments, academic bloggers worry that the medium smells faddish, ephemeral. But they also make a strong case [...]