Advertising Messages As Tools for Teaching

This site suggests teachers consider using advertising in their English classrooms.

Can Cellphones Be Educational Tools?

Obviously, they CAN be. But this piece, from The New York Times Learning Network site, does not address the need for school districts and schools to revise many of their archaic policies about the use of cell phones in instruction.

Teens Online Lack Ethics (Harvard Study Finds)

In their research, the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.

Education Nation: NBC Initiative Starts September 26

Among other things, NBC's Bryan Williams will talk with thousands of teachers on-air and online about critical issues facing educators. Other details here.

Can videogames transform education?

One of the featured stories in the Sunday New York Times magazine section.

Enhancing English Language Arts Education With Digital Video

Three university professors, writing in the journal "Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education"(CITE), provide a concise history of the use of film in the ELA classroom and examine why teaching with and about digital video is also important for 21st century new literacies' educators.

Researcher links kids' computer use with test scores, behavior

In what researchers describe as one of the first long-term looks at the effects of media use during childhood, a study released September 15 linked hours at the computer with achievement test scores and behavior and found little sign of harm for children ages 6 to 12 as they increased their screen time over a six-year period.