Table of Contents | October 2005
Editor's Note: Growing Up Tech
Most kids today have never known a world without the Internet.
Letters: Changing How Students Feel About Learning
Some ideas on how to change students' outlook on education.
Dispatches: QT on the AAP!: Or, Quiet on the Acronyms and Pseudonyms
Have a child in school? You may need a translator.
Sage Advice: Effective Technology
What technology is most effective in the classroom?
Features
Connecting to the 21st-Century Student
Educators must work to understand and motivate a new kind of digital learner.
Media Literacy Is Vital in the Age of the Image
A new language of visual literacy and expression has taken hold. Now it's time to add it to the classroom.
Cool Schools
Going Sky High: Students Take Learning to New Levels
An interest in aeronautics leads students to Aviation High School, where academic pursuits take flight.
How to Build a Theme-Based Curriculum
Whether you want to develop your own theme-based school, or just a theme-based curriculum within your school, here are a few issues to keep high on your radar.
Design
Way Beyond Fuddy-Duddy: New Libraries Bring Out the Best in Students
Good things happen when the library is the place kids want to be.
Heart and Soul
Grounded: A Lack of Funds, and NCLB, Can Mean Fewer Field Trips
Budget cuts and test-score mania mean fewer field trips -- and fewer connections to the outside world.
Muse: Teaching Character: Learning From Memorable Mentors
Sometimes it's not what you learn, but how you learn it.
Head of Class
Flight School: Educators Get Their Heads in the Clouds
Teachers go airborne, get weightless, and pump up their students.
Extra Credit: Goodies for the Teacher and Student
Great things for class -- tested in our secret underground labs.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
Easy Reading: A Breakthrough for the Reading Disabled
A new font for dyslexics makes sentences a snap.
Recess
Highway Hues: You Won't Feel Blue on This Vacation
The Blue Ridge Parkway's autumnal foliage beckons.
The Mild Ones: Scooters Make Sense
Ditch your SUV for one of these gas-saving, easy-to-park rides.
Kickin' It: Adults Can Play, Too
Kickball games aren't just for kids.
Like History?: Ten Great (Nontextbook) History Books
Discover the allure of events past with these classy chronicles.
To Sleep . . . Perchance?: The Benefit of a Good Night's Rest
No snooze is definitely not good snooze.
