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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Burns, Mary – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2013
What will technology-based teacher professional development look like in the next few years? In this article, teacher training curriculum designer Mary Burns presents her 5 top picks from the professional learning technologies now emerging around the world: (1) IPTV; (2) Immersive Environments; (3) Video; (4) Social Media; and (5) Mobile…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Television
Burns, Mary; Montalvo, Marianne; Rhodes, Rebecca – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2010
What can Mali, an impoverished, land-locked West African nation, teach educators about mobile technology? Little to nothing, one might think. Yet in Mali, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, teachers and students are increasingly using mobile technologies for learning and teaching. While educators in the United States have debated whether, why, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
Burns, Mary – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2006
Computer technology has become an indispensable tool in writing. Those of us who have spent any time in schools can attest to the prevalence of word processing, concept mapping, Web editing, and electronic presentation software, all deployed, to a large extent, in the collective effort to enhance student writing. The degree to which such tools…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Processes, Creative Writing