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More on NECC

Another blogger posting about NECC: Scott Adams @ Arkansas Tech. He has a link to a live-blogged transcript of the Weinberger keynote.

Blogging from NECC

If you wanted to go to NECC in Philadelphia, but couldn't make it this year, never fear, a number of ed-tech bloggers are posting from the show.

Check out these blogs for the latest:

Assorted Stuff

Weblogg-ed

Education/Technology - Tim Lauer

A number of these bloggers mention David Weinberger's Keynote Speech. Here's a post from his blog about the speech.

Novelty effect of laptops

Nice post over at Assorted Stuff about school laptop programs. Among other things, he points out that giving laptops to increase student motivation to learn isn't necessarily going to work in the long term, once the novelty effect wears off.  He concludes his post:

"However, American education will not improve without some major alterations to everything from the calendar to curriculum to organization. Just adding laptops to the mix will not work. Computers should certainly be part of that change but just computerizing a classroom (or a kid) in the long term will make no difference to teaching and learning. None!"

Report on Intel's Education Visionary Conference

eSchool News has an excellent report on Intel's Education Visionary Conference, held May 18 in Washington, D.C. (link courtesy Edu-Tech News)

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Computers in High School: Interesting article in Education World about integrating technology in the high school classroom (found on Educational Technology blog)

From the Wired Campus Blog, Clickers in the Classroom

From Education at the Brink, a link to Newsweek's list of the top public high schools in America

Multiple Choice News Roundup

Lots of interesting news items this week.

From Edu-tech News: a report about a Georgia school district cutting back on a laptop program (from eSchool News) and an item about a West Virginia initiative to survey students and teachers about technology.

From Education Technology - Tim Lauer, a post about a new book that highlights the use of the Internet in the classroom

From Educational Technology, a great news summary blog, three interesting items:

• an article from techLearning about learning communities and educational technology
• a little story from The Scotsman about a survey of Scottish students

• a good article about overcoming technology integration barriers

Weblogg-ed reports on an article in the Village Voice about blogging in academia. He also has a great post on the case against textbooks.

Finally, lots of good stuff recently on the Wired Campus Blog:

• The uncertain future of libraries
• Students still don’t credit online sources
• Studying attacks on computers
• Ethics hotline at Northwestern University
• Take those tests offline!

Carnival of Education

Be sure to check out The Carnival of Education over at The Education Wonks blog. It is a weekly round-up of posts from education blogs, and covers a wide range of topics and viewpoints. Well worth checking out.