Public schools in California just received $36 million in federal grants to increase the amount of innovative educational technology used in K-12 classrooms. Big textbook publishers are getting in on the act by marketing their texts on digital platforms such as the iPad. What will the districts do to assess whether these new technologies actually improve student learning?
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A new educational focus is emerging in some institutions of higher education. These schools are taking an interdisciplinary approach to educating tomorrow’s information professionals, by mixing together science, technology, social science, and design. These new programs are beginning to educate students in these new professions – not as programmers or coders or software developers, but as professional analysts, architects, and creators of our planet’s critical information infrastructure.
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