If you’re looking to trim your curriculum budget and engage young learners, consider replacing textbooks with a digital equivalent.
High-availability storage area networks keep core systems running smoothly.
As their security responsibilities grow, school IT managers develop multifaceted strategies to protect people, information and even buildings.
Technologies with retail-sector origins are making schools more efficient.
Technology, science and history merge to shed light on the world of inventions.
Students use technology to raise awareness about the conflict in Darfur.
Students use portable media players to practice and improve reading fluency.
Make writing fun by integrating clip art into the writing process.
Schools bridge cultural and educational divides through distance learning.
Innovative technologies can increase student engagement and problem-solving skills.
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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.
Littleton Public Schools watches test scores soar after deploying netbooks for its language arts program.
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.
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Doing more with less has been a major focus of schools and districts recently — and for good reason.
A mission to get 229 teachers to integrate IT into the curriculum through the introduction of classroom technologies.
If unified communications hasn’t been part of the mix, there’s compelling evidence suggesting it should be.
As a student who goes to an online public school and a teacher who uses distance learning to teach, I know first hand what it’s like to use 21st century tools in the classroom.
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Early adopters give Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 high marks as a cost-saving desktop virtualization tool.
This new breed of compact computing devices is best suited to basic day-to-day tasks.
Virtual desktop technology provides a rural school with a more cost-efficient way to deliver applications.
Minicomputers are adding mobility and flexibility to K–12 classrooms across the country.
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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.
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