Brian C. Smith's Library tagged ELP → View Popular

there are few portals through which new knowledge about teaching and learning can enter schools; few structures or processes in which teachers and administrators can assimilate, adapt, and polish new ideas and practices; and few sources of assistance for those who are struggling to understand the connection between the academic performance of their students and the practices in which they engage.
Teachers rarely get to self-select learning opportunities, pursue professional passions, or engage in meaningful, ongoing conversations about instruction.
8 more annotations...
- What makes professional development even more frustrating to practitioners is that most of the programs we are exposed to are drawn directly from the latest craze sweeping the business world.
- Although most of my colleagues recognize that business-driven reform efforts are likely to have little effect on student learning, they are largely unwilling to challenge the status quo.
- beginning to believe in the human capacity of their faculties
- thousands of accomplished educators are now writing blogs about teaching and learning, bringing transparency to both the art and the science of their practice.
- With the investment of a bit of time and effort, I've found a group of writers to follow who expose me to more interesting ideas in one day than I've been exposed to in the past 10 years of costly professional development.
- Feed readers are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner
- Bloggers spend significant time pushing their own thinking—and having their thinking pushed by others.
- Digital tools have also changed who I am as an instructor because I've introduced these tools to my students.

28 Jan 09

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students

NETS and Performance Indicators for Students

www.iste.org/...or_Students_2007_Standards.pdf - Preview

NETS ISTE standards students technology assessment ELP FCSDTVT

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers

Effective teachers model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS•S) as they design, implement, and assess learning experiences to engage students and improve learning; enrich professional practice; and provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. All teachers should meet the following standards and performance indicators.

www.iste.org/...NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf - Preview

NETS technology standards ISTE ELP FCSDTVT professionaldevelopment

Welcome to AccessIT

AccessIT promotes the use of electronic and information technology (E&IT) for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels. This Web site features the AccessIT Knowledge Base, a searchable database of questions and answers regarding accessible E&IT. It is designed for educators, policy makers, librarians, technical support staff, and students and employees with disabilities and their advocates.

www.washington.edu/accessit - Preview

accessibility digitaldivide ELP FCSDTVT technology