Dottie Black's blog about work being done in the Durham schools to use technology in education.

Test used to assess entry level skills for placement at NC community colleges

The Duke Center for Science Education promotes interdisciplinary research in science education and community outreach, civic engagement, and service learning opportunities for the Duke community. In addition, it provides state-of-the-art science education resources to K-16 teachers and their students.

From downloadable podcasts to just-for-iPod study guides and applications, learning on the go has never been easier. To find out about the many different ways you can transform your iPod into a learning device, check out our list. Includes study guides, podcasts, tutorials, applications, downloadable books and materials, reference materials, tools, and pointers to tips for using iPods and pointers to places for getting iPod ready materials.

NIH Science Education Partnership Awards. NCRR's Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) are designed to improve life science literacy throughout the nation. These grants bring together biomedical and behavioral researchers, educators, community groups, and other interested organizations in partnerships to create and disseminate programs that give K-12 students and teachers and the general public a better understanding of life sciences.

projects that will receive funding as part of the first ever Digital Media and Learning Competition funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Selected from a pool of 1010 applications, the winning projects are expected to produce promising innovations in the use of digital media for formal and informal learning.

Build African Schools is a program for constructing small 5-room primary and secondary schools in the remote Maasai Mara region of Kenya. Each school includes a solar power system and a computer lab donated by Hewlett-Packard Co.

Materials from the Genetics Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. See for example, "Let's Clone a Mouse." Designed for non-research audiences, our materials are interactive and jargon-free, target multiple learning styles, and often convey concepts through visual elements. delivers interactive and print-based resources, free of charge, to Internet users worldwide. The website has two main components: * Information and activities: These address standards for science education, and are accessible to all users from the homepage. * Teacher Resources and Lesson Plans: These are accessible from the top right of any page. They include PDF-based Print-and-Go™ classroom activities and teacher guides for all materials.

Columbia University has created a Web site to educate elementary and secondary students about the civil-rights and black-power movements spanning 1954 through 1975. The site, called the Amistad Digital Resource, includes audio and video clips of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil-rights leaders. It also includes FBI documents and maps where civil-rights demonstrations took place.