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Creating a Successful Academic Climate for Urban Students
The integration of technology in the classroom can help create a more engaging, interactive and authentic learning experience for students; this is especially useful in urban schools where students are often disengaged in their education and more likely to drop out.

What You Need to Know About Web 2.0
From blogs to podcasts to wikis, Web 2.0 is here with a vengeance and is increasingly being incorporated into classroom instruction. Here's what you need to know about the new Web and how you can use it to enhance your students' learning experience, and yours.

Can Web 2.0 Improve Our Collaboration?
Web 2.0 technology can be invaluable in fostering collaboration among educators by allowing them to create, access and share information. These researchers ask: Can it also be used to foster research collaboration in career and technical education?

Transforming the Classroom for Collaborative Learning in the 21st Century
This article by Cisco notes that a better integration of technology and pedagogy, the formation of multi-stakeholder partnerships between schools and organizations and the use of 21st century curricula that incorporate the soft skills required in today's workforce will go a long way to transform learning.

Changing the Landscape of Teacher Education Via Online Teaching and Education
Online education has changed the landscape of postsecondary instruction by offering learning opportunities to anyone, anywhere, and at any time - at the click of a mouse.

Using Technology to Enhance an Automotive Program
With the use of PowerPoint, one automotive technology instructor is not only improving the transference of knowledge to his students, he's using it to help determine what they're learning.

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Developing Technical Skills Assessments
This is the third in a series by ACTE on the Implementation of Perkins. States are working, to varying degrees, to develop technical skills as required by the legislation. Georgia, for instance, is embracing the challenge of building from scratch a statewide skill assessment system.

High School Child Development Courses Provide a Valuable Internship
Lab experience is an advantage for students in child development programs because it helps them apply the theories and concepts they learn in the course to real-life contexts.

A STEM Brainstorm at NASA
A lack of students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math has piqued NASA's interest.

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