The 1:1 Learning Collaborative supports teachers, administrators, technology facilitators, and others in 1:1 computing environments by providing them with an array of high quality professional development opportunities and web based resources focused on implementing educationally effective 1:1 computing programs.
Classroom learning cannot be confined to traditional mediums in a 21st century school. The next generation of learners want more. They want the ability to create and share in a virtual world. Lodge McCammon is a specialist at the Friday Institute and Ph.D. graduate of the College of Education. It is his experience and vision that is bringing a new approach to capturing the attention of these millennial students.
FIZZ is a suite of tools that allows teachers to safely broadcast their classroom. A website is created as the school’s very own video library, similar to YouTube. It is as simple as taking video from the flip camera, uploading and then viewing it with the students. Or, the students can view the content outside of the classroom and share their learning experience with friends and family.
The School Connectivity Initiative has made great strides in 2008. In the short session of the NC General Assembly, legislators approved an expansion of the project that provided an additional $10 million dollars for the project, bringing the total project to $22 million dollars annually.
NC State University’s College of Education and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation honored Former Governor James B. Hunt at its annual Friday Medal Presentation on November 19. An advocate for education reform throughout his career, Hunt addressed educational policy for the new national administration.
The North Carolina Educational Technology Conference was held in Greensboro, NC during the first week in December 2008. The conference focuses on helping to shape the future of education by bringing together emerging and existing technologies with the best practices in education.
Dr. Glenn Kleiman, Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, is interviewed on UNC-TV about the NC 1:1 Learning Technology Initiative.
Ask any child between the ages of 5 and 18 what they like to do in their spare time. In the past, answers would probably include going to soccer practice or piano lessons. Today, most kids would say, "Playing video games" or "Watching videos on YouTube and looking at my friends' profiles on Facebook."
It's just a different world we're living in. Online media and social networking Web sites are more popular than ever with this younger generation. Most can't even remember not being able to check e-mail or post pictures on their MySpace pages.
Today’s youth are deeply involved in the digital world. Social networking and video sharing sites, online games and devices such as mobile phones and iPods are everyday fixtures in youth culture. Yet often there is a digital disconnect in the learning environments. Teachers do not know how or when to incorporate these types of new media into the classroom.
The digital world has also brought with it a lot of new terms such as Twitter, Ning, DimDim, and Wordle. What do they mean? How is a teacher to navigate the terminology and the technology?
What do I want to be when I grow up? For Tamara Clegg, the answers were found in the North Carolina Mathematics and Science Education Network (NC-MSEN) Pre-College Program at NC State University. Beginning in the sixth grade, Tamara participated in the program that is designed to prepare underserved students for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and education.
Today, she is one of the program’s success stories. For seven years, Clegg participated in the NC-MSEN Pre-College Program at NC State University. After high school, she earned a BS in Computer Science from NCSU and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech.
The New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute was held at the Friday Institute from July 12 – 17, 2009. The weeklong institute entitled, “New Literacies, Inquiry, Equity: Teacher Leaders for a New Educational Era,” focused on how a new literacies approach to education that leverages emerging digital tools can create challenging and engaging learning opportunities for students and teachers. Forty-eight teachers from across the country (and China) came together to share ideas, learn from leaders in the field of new literacies, engage in project-based inquiry, and answer the question: What will you contribute as a new literacies teacher leader?
