Category Archives: TechYES

Can PBL Help Pave the Way to College Success? YES!

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Sylvia Martinez

Edutopia: Can PBL Help Pave the Way to College Success? In this article by Suzie Boss, Edutopia explores research underway that asks if student leadership, technology, and project-based learning can better prepare students to stay in college. In high-poverty neighborhoods … Continue reading →

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Generation YES and Oba Partner to Teach Students to Become Online Learning Ambassadors

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Sylvia Martinez

I’d like to share an exciting announcement: Generation YES and Oba Partner to Teach Students to Become Online Learning Ambassadors. If you haven’t heard about Oba, you are about to! ObaWorld is a global cloud-based learning platform developed by the … Continue reading →

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TechYES - New project planning, portfolio, and assessment tools

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Sylvia Martinez

Time for a little (ahem) announcement - Generation YES has been working on something BIG! We are proud to unveil the latest version of TechYES, our student technology literacy certification program. TechYES has always been about students showing technology literacy … Continue reading →

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Alliance Students Use Technology to Gain Leadership Skills

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Sylvia Martinez

As I’ve mentioned before, Generation YES is a partner on a Federal Investing in Innovation (i3) grant called College YES. Working with the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools in Los Angeles, we’ve helped them implement Student Technology Leadership teams in 12 of their … Continue reading →

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Beyond technology capacity

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Sylvia Martinez

Many times when we work with new schools implementing GenYES or TechYES student technology leadership programs we find that they have a lot of technology, but that the perception and reality in the classroom is very different. It’s one thing … Continue reading →

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New podcast from Radio TICAL - bringing student voice into ed tech

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Involving students as partners and co-learners in the educational process, rather than as consumers—or worse, as “objects”—is not a new concept but it is certainly gaining currency in the 21st century. With information exploding, teachers can no longer hope to … Continue reading →

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Project-ing Tech Literacy

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

More reaction to the new whitepaper Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (Read more or download PDF) From Education Week: “A new whitepaper addressing recent calls for technology literacy education argues any such education should … Continue reading →

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New - Technology literacy whitepaper

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Today we are happy to announce the release of a new whitepaper written by Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, with Cherise A. Hodge, M.Ed. and Mary W. Sepelyak, M.Ed. Dr. Becker … Continue reading →

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Maple Avenue Middle School students in the news

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Students at Maple Avenue Middle School in Saratoga, NY got some well-deserved attention from their local newspaper, The Saratogian News. “Sixth-graders in Tom Coons’ computer class linger after the bell rings, asking for passes to come back during their study … Continue reading →

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$71.6 million in California stimulus funds for educational technology (ARRA EETT)

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Sylvia Martinez

States are starting to distribute the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding, better known as “Stimulus Funds”. Much of the Title 1 funding has already found its way to schools, and now, the portion allocated to improve … Continue reading →

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