Instructional Technology .: Education Articles

Teachers Teaching Teachers Online
E-learning and its various technologically advanced bells and whistles are part and parcel of today’s academic and corporate learning environments. Traditionally, the teacher-learner relationship is measurably enhanced by interactive face...

Online professional development approved
Officials from 15 school area districts learned last week that an on-line professional development program from the federal Department of Education has been approved. This is good news for teachers in the state’s 501 school districts who face...

Importance of Technical Education
Education is important for every individual in a nation. It plays a vital role to change the stare of a country. No country could bring a revolution in it unless its people are educated enough to meet the challenges. Education makes a...

When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching
Giving professors gadgets without training can do more harm than good in the classroom, students say. Alison Lesht, a senior at Connecticut College, dreaded going to her organic-chemistry classes, held in one of the college's wired...

Hot Technologies in K-12 Education
As technology companies introduce innovative products and services for the education market, school districts have the opportunity to invest in technologies designed to improve instruction and operations—from teaching, learning and...

Why Teach Thinking?
Why Teach Thinking? by Dr. Alvin Chan The word ‘creativity’ has so many diverse meanings and interpretations. I remember telling an audience of teachers that creating a mess is also creative as long...