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Web 2.0 for Education Outreach to Low-Income and Minority Students - The Future of Education

  • The use of online learning by states such as mine (GA) is growing and growing! One of the problems that I see is that the state only funds one unit per semester, and if a student (public, private, or home school) needs an additional course, either the student or school must pay. Much of Georgia is still rural and relatively poor....many students outside the metro Atlanta area do not have high speed access at home which is a huge issue in itself. We have many requests for scholarships and currently have not found resources available.

    The other issue I am seeing is the fear that schools have of opening the school computers to websites. It seems that IT personnel need training in how to safely allow teachers and students to use the wealth of Web 2.0 material currently available.
  • Been where you are right now, here are some starting points:



    1. Students who do not have Internet access at home (some don't)



    2. Valuable web resources that are blocked (especially video sites)



    3. Professional development and equipment for teachers (some teachers are just not yet familiar with how to use web 2.0 resources for learning in and out of class or either don't have a laptop, camera, etc. or won't use their personal ones in school). I've learned that PD is most successful when it is job-embedded, in-class assisted (tech coach w/content teacher), sustained throughout the year, and done is small groups/learning communities.



    which all lead to



    4. Leadership commitment

Top News - Six technologies soon to affect education

Collaborative environments, cloud computing, and "smart" objects are among the technologies that a group of experts believes will have a profound impact on K-12 education within the next five years or sooner.

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emerging technology k-12 education education2.0 manuela

  • Collaborative environments, cloud computing, and "smart" objects are among the technologies that a group of experts believes will have a profound impact on K-12 education within the next five years or sooner.
  • This is the first report we have developed with a focus on emerging technologies for elementary and secondary schools, and we hope that K-12 educators will use it as a resource for robust dialog and technology planning," said Larry Johnson, NMC's chief executive. "The technologies we identified have the power to transform teaching and learning both in the short and long term."
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08 Apr 09

ASCD Inservice: Would Your Admins Embrace MySpace?

  • "Our eyes are not on the ball," said Moses. "If we're really serious about child safety, it's not about what's going on online; it's what's going on in their immediate physical environment. Five thousand 
    kids get sent to the hospital every year for scissor injuries, but how many schools have scissors in them? We need to teach kids how to use things safely. You can run a band saw in middle school,
    but you can't go on the Internet."
  • Finally, the big question from this session: "Do you want to be a barrier to kids learning, or do you want to work with the learning they're already doing?"
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07 Apr 09

Acceptable Internet Use Policies - A Handbook, Virginia Department of Education

  • The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), passed by Congress in December 2000, applies to all schools and libraries that receive E-rate discounts for Internet access and internal connections. On April 5, 2001, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued regulations for schools and libraries receiving non-telecommunications E-rate discounts.
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