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03 Aug 08
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There’s an emphasis on data and accountability that has driven a lot of emphasis on data and data systems. Each one of those provides its own unique set of challenges. The biggest piece that school districts we’ve been talking with are wrestling with is, how do you bring that all together? How do you connect your data systems to classroom-based technologies? How do you leverage those classroom tools to reach students, to improve student achievement, to deliver services, if you will, to students and parents more effectively. How do we leverage the potential we have in this technology for us to understand how students are doing and be able to reach them, and how do we maximize that, how do we capitalize on that in ways that are both scalable and sustainable?
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it’s really only when you look at what you would think of as the core business, and then how can technology really support those goals, that you begin to have the kind of conversations that we’ve seen successful schools and districts around the country begin to have. It’s when they’re applying technology in ways that help them meet their strategic aim and are willing to align their practices in ways that leverage what the technology is uniquely able to offer.
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just being facile with the devices, just being operationally skilled with the machinery, doesn’t mean you know how to use it. If you do a Web search and come up with 5 million hits, anyone can do that very easily. It’s what you do with those 5 million hits, how you narrow it down and look for bias and other things. It’s a skill that adults in large measure have more than young people.
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operational facility, while it’s useful on one level, is not the entire spectrum of what we need to know and be able to do with technology.
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One of the areas technology can really play a role is in being globally aware, in giving our students that international perspective so they understand that the idea of being globally competitive is not necessarily the same thing as being the first one to the finish line. It may mean cooperating with folks around the globe. It may mean being able to take advantage of opportunities around the world. It may mean learning a language or understanding a culture or being able to connect and create a relationship with people whose worldview is very different from our own.
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25 Jun 08
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08 May 08
Joyce cluessThis interview voices the opintion that tech savvy students still need the adults to show them how to evaluate and what to do with the information available.
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