Table of Contents | June 2009
Edutopia Profiles the Digital Generation
Public education has much to learn from today's technologically tuned-in youth.
Feedback: Multiple-Intelligences Categories Bolster Less Successful Students
Thanks to classroom application of Howard Gardner's theory, kids with learning problems learn to their strengths.
Dispatches: Kindergarten Is the Model for Lifelong Learning
Let's keep teaching creativity throughout school and adulthood.
Sage Advice: Students Teach Tech
What have your students taught you about technology?
Pop Quiz: Will.i.am
The hip-hop singer and music producer weighs in on social networking, online media tools, and the Peapod Foundation.
Features
Dive into the Future of Learning
Welcome to the Digital Generation Project. Edutopia's in-depth coverage of students from around the country reveals how young people are using new media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways.
How to Teach with Technology
Students fire off new lesson plans for the digital classroom.
Schools Look to Teacher-Training Institutions for Tech Leadership
Schools of education must fuel a digital revolution in teaching.
Avatars Teach Teens About Self-Image
Even as the national beauty obsession grows, a new virtual world has emerged to give kids another perspective about image.
High Tech Connections Lead to Face-to-Face Disconnections
Can we redo the part where the new technologies distract us from our friends and family and the assorted joys of the here and now?
Cool Schools
Educators Innovate Through Technology Integration
Technology and NASA help teachers and students at a South Carolina elementary school aim high.
How to Build a Technology-Based Curriculum
Educators emphasize that infrastructure must precede innovation.
Heart and Soul
Kids Feel the Power of Poetry in Peformance
Through slam poetry, students reach new heights in literacy and in life.
Head of Class
Wind Turbines Fuel Learning
As alternative energy takes center stage, a national program teaches the science and power of the wind.
A Fit Body Means a Fit Mind
Along with physical strength, a little exercise helps kids build brainpower.
Pocket Entrepreneurs Benefit from Teenage Philanthropists
High school students make microfinance loans to grow small businesses around the globe.
