Conference News

  • Digital signage a big focus at InfoComm 2008
    Mon, May 12, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  InfoComm
    Enterprise buyers and technology managers from educational institutions, companies, and government from around the world will be attending InfoComm 08, a professional audiovisual tradeshow, June 18-20 in Las Vegas, Nev. Conference officials expect more than 32,000 attendees at this year's show. [ Read More ]

  • Hope inspires educators at ASCD conference
    Thu, Mar 27, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    In the spirit of New Orleans, a high school band, complete with tubas and clarinets, welcomed clapping attendees to the opening keynote session of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD's) annual conference earlier this month. And it was this same spirit that infused the entire conference, as speakers embraced themes of hope and rebirth and applied them to the state of education today. [ Read More ]

  • 'Learning' replaces 'teaching'
    Fri, Mar 21, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    At the 2008 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference, Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and Mary Dean Barringer, chief operating officer of All Kinds of Minds, discussed how education in the United States is shifting from an emphasis on teaching to one of learning. [ Read More ]

  • Neuroscience supports individualized instruction
    Wed, Mar 19, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    Greeted with images that inspired questions, like a giant egg broken in half to reveal a sunrise on a beach, attendees of a neuroscience session at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's annual conference March 15 realized their brains were in for some stimulation. [ Read More ]

  • Hope inspires educators at ASCD conference
    Wed, Mar 19, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    In the spirit of New Orleans, a high school band, complete with tubas and clarinets, welcomed clapping attendees to the opening keynote session of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD's) annual conference March 15. [ Read More ]

  • High-end monitors go missing from ASCD exhibits
    Mon, Mar 17, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    Four exhibitors got a shock during the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference in New Orleans, March 15-17, when they realized at least six large HD monitors were missing. Given the type and volume of equipment that disappeared, the incidents appeared to be part of an orchestrated rash of thefts. [ Read More ]

  • Seven habits of a highly effective school tech exec
    Wed, Mar 12, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  CoSN
    For Ed Zaiontz, executive director of information services for the Round Rock Independent School District in Texas, and Leo Brehm, director of technology for the Sharon Public Schools in Sharon, Mass., being an effective school district chief technology officer (CTO) begins first with a passion for the job ... and then the adoption of several habits. [ Read More ]

  • States struggle with assessing tech literacy
    Tue, Mar 11, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  CoSN
    The No Child Left Behind Act stipulates that all students should be technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade. But how to assess technological literacy has proven to be a complex challenge for school leaders. At an annual conference hosted by the Consortium for School Networking, ed-tech leaders in West Virginia and North Carolina discussed how their states are trying to meet this challenge. [ Read More ]

  • Cell phones in schools: Opportunity or distraction?
    Tue, Mar 11, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  CoSN
    During a session at the Consortium for School Networking's 13th annual K-12 School Networking Conference in Arlington, Va., on March 10, panelists discussed whether cell phones present an opportunity, or a distraction, for schools ... and conference attendees learned that schools in at least one state, North Carolina, have embraced cell phones as tools for instruction. [ Read More ]