Learning.com makes presence known at NECC 2007 in Atlanta, GA

Where is Technology in 21st Century Schools?

Dr. Geoff Fletcher presentation at NECC 2007

See Dr. Geoffrey Fletcher’s 36-minute presentation at the luncheon hosted by Learning.com. You can also download the following to listen and view at your leisure:

An audio podcast (ZIP 8MB). Don’t miss any of Dr. Fletcher’s valuable insight.
A hi-res video version for iTunes and your iPod (ZIP 168MB). Show it to your staff and colleagues.
Accompanying presentation slides (PDF 580KB). Follow along with this handout.

“How can schools prepare students to gain access to and thrive in a growing number of technology and professional jobs? The key is to engage students in expert thinking, complex thinking and problem solving. These things have to be embedded into everything we do in schools.”

Dr. Geoffrey Fletcher
Editor for T.H.E. Journal

See his presentation: Where is Technology in 21st Century Schools?

Learning.com Booth at NECC 2007
In the history of technology, Learning.com is “what’s next” — as shown at our booth.

Free T-shirts
From the first day of the show, our spiffy collectible t-shirts were everywhere.

Learning.com Booth at NECC 2007
Mikelyn Bixler from Searcy County School District in Marshall, Arkansas was one of ten lucky winners of an iPod nano.

Learning.com Booth at NECC 2007
Attendees at our hosted luncheon were treated to Dr. Fletcher’s informative presentation on technology in 21st century schools.

Learning.com makes presence known at NECC 2007

Free T-shirts, iPod giveaways, museum-themed exhibit, hosted luncheon with Dr. Geoffrey Fletcher, Aha!Math sneak-peek hospitality suite, Assessment Session presentation, and topping it off with a laptop winner. If you missed us, see us next year at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, or any of our upcoming events.

Learning.com Presents at Assessment Session
Thanks to all who attended the special NECC session, Assessing Students’ and Teachers’ Technology Skills: NETS as Benchmarks, in which Alia Jackson, Learning.com’s Marketing Manager, presented information about our TechLiteracy Assessment solution. On a panel speaking to a standing-room-only crowd, Alia discussed how the Web-delivered TechLiteracy Assessment provides educators with an easy and scaleable way to collect important data on student technology literacy, as well as the timely and automatic reports they need, while helping educators understand how well students grasp technology skills to inform instruction and meet accountability goals.

Congratulations iPod Winners
If you attended NECC in Atlanta, chances are good you saw one of the Learning.com T-shirts being worn on the exhibit hall floor. Ten lucky winners who were spotted wearing the shirts were rewarded at random with an iPod nano by our Learning.com staff. Congratulations, winners! We hope you enjoy the iPod and your T-shirts.

And Congratulations Laptop Winner
Rosemary Rinker, an Education Technology Specialist from Phillipsburg School District in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, is the lucky winner of a laptop, given away in a random drawing by Learning.com at NECC. Thank you to all the thousands of folks who entered their names.

Aha!Math Sneak Peeks at NECC
Many folks at NECC got a sneak peek of Learning.com’s newest solution, Aha!Math, a Web-delivered K-5 supplemental math curriculum that will be released in August. Aha!Math, available now at introductory pricing, helps teachers create successful math learners with research-based lessons, activities and games to improve foundational math skills and develop higher-level problem solving and reasoning skills. Rich with interactive, multisensory experiences that are relevant to students, Aha!Math helps students build conceptual and procedural knowledge and develop discovery and analytical skills.