Digital native – someone who grew up in the digital age and uses technology naturally. Digital immigrant – someone who grew up without technology and for whom technology will always remain something “external” that needs to be mastered. Disruptive innovations –...
Esther Feldman is Director of Information Technology and Financial Services at The Lookstein Center. In this article, she shares the history and development of The Lookstein Center’s Remote Teacher program, and presents what Lookstein learned from its experience about...
Sholom Eisenstat is a Computer Resource teacher for secondary schools north of Toronto. He shared a Prime Minister’s Award for the technology integration model in the CyberARTS program in the Toronto District School Board, and holds an MA in Parshanut Hamikra from...
Avital Drori is a senior curriculum developer in Language Arts at CET (www3.cet.ac.il/english) and the head of Jewish and Israel education overseas. She is a graduate of University of Washington, Seattle, in International and Jewish studies (BA) and in Education and...
Meir Fachler (meir@gemaraberura.com) is the Executive Director of Gemara Berura, qualifying him as an early pioneer in the field of computer-assisted Talmud study. In this article, he shares the underlying principles and a new application for studying Mishnah and...
Yechiel Hoffman serves as a Rabbi and Jewish Studies instructor, an experiential educator and a "Laptop Leader" at Milken Community High School, in Los Angeles. Yechiel is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University and Hebrew College. In this article, he...
Efraim Feinstein, Ph.D., is a day school graduate, a biophysicist by training, and has had a long term interest in technology, free software, and the intersection of copyright and culture. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, and is co-director...
Rabbi Yedidya Rausman is the Founding Director of WebYeshiva.org. He received his BA at CUNY Queens College and his rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Hamivtar and Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. In this article, he explores the possibilities in live, interactive,...
Dania Shapira’s academic and research interests include the integration of technology in teaching and learning the Hebrew language; how to accommodate children and youth with special needs to be able to cope with the pressures of the dual curriculum (English-Hebrew),...
Howard Blas is a social worker and special educator who primarily teaches students with special needs and circumstances in Jewish Studies and for bar and bat mitzvah. He is Director of the Tikvah Program at Camp Ramah in New England and a member of the inaugural...
