January 6, 2009
November 2008—Vol. 5, No. 11
Featured Interview
Michael F. Sullivan, Director of Education, Take Charge America
Michael Sullivan, aka the Budget Doctor, is Director of Education at Take Charge America, a nonprofit credit counseling and debt management agency. Technos spoke with Dr. Sullivan on Election Day 2008. 
From our Technos Archives
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science
The American economy is foremost in our minds these days, and there is no better expert in the free market capitalist system than Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman. In this wide-ranging interview from a past issue of AIT’s TECHNOS Quarterly he discussed the American economy and our educational system and his advocacy of school choice and vouchers with our former Editor, Mardell J. Raney.
Featured Article
Economics Information Available Online
In keeping with our focus on the American economy this month, we’ve gathered a list of online resources for teachers to utilize.
What’s New at AIT?
Read for the Record Sets another Record in 2008, AIT Again Handles Distribution of Featured Book
JumpStart’s campaign to Read for the Record shattered its 2007 record with more than 425,000 participants across the country. AIT handled distribution of the featured book, Corduroy, published by Pearson Foundation, again this year.
Lessons ALIVE!
This month we’re featuring a FREE Geography lesson plan for students in grades 3–6, utilizing any weekly program from Assignment: The World. Getting the Right Coordinates uses place names of news events presented in ATW programs and the longitude and latitude coordinates for those places to introduce skills in using world maps. This learning activity directly addresses the National Council for the Social Studies recommendations for Content Strand III: People, Places, and Environments.
Tech Notes
Web 3.0—The Semantic Web Cometh
What Happens When the Read-Write Web Begins to Think?
AIT Author Jason Ohler tells us that the Semantic Web, often called Web 3.0, will bring the Web much closer to Tim Berners-Lee’s original conception of it as a universal network in which computers adapt to humans rather than the other way around.
etc. (News You Need)
Find links to a collection of online reports, tools, events, and new opportunities.
Recommended Links
This section features some of the interesting and informative Web sites we've visited. At the time of publication, all URLs were valid. We apologize for any inconvenience, should this no longer be true. It's our recommendation that you check out the sites before you allow students to visit them.
AIT Products & Services
Check out AIT’s online catalog for more information about this month's featured products.
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