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Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high-stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity.
- Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
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Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high-stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity.
- Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
Digital education revolution is not sustainable - On Line Opinion - 6/10/2008
The example of the Learning Object Repository Network in the Vocational Education and Training sector is a good model for schools to follow in developing and sharing content. However, that system is hampered by the lack of open access to the materials. The Minister should require the use of a Creative Commons type licence on materials developed with the government funding to ensure the content can be widely used, without the need for schools to worry about paying licence fees.
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However, that system is hampered by the lack of open access to the materials. The Minister should require the use of a Creative Commons type licence on materials developed with the government funding to ensure the content can be widely used, without the need for schools to worry about paying licence fees.
State of the program: PCs in schools: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia
In addition to PCs for schools, the Federal Government's funding will be used for direct fibre connections to schools, ICT training for teachers and funds for the development of online curriculum tools.
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In addition to PCs for schools, the Federal Government's funding will be used for direct fibre connections to schools, ICT training for teachers and funds for the development of online curriculum tools.
Taking TCO to the classroom
This tool specifically investigates the workstation, network and server cost of ownership in the K-12 environment, providing an instrument and a process that schools and districts can use in determining their total cost of ownership (TCO) for technology:
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This tool specifically investigates the workstation, network and server cost of ownership in the K-12 environment, providing an
instrument and a process that schools and districts can use in determining their total cost of ownership (TCO) for technology:
The Education Revolution in Action
Presenters' notes are being uploaded to this site as they become available.
NSW to censor student laptops
"Our internet filtering is unbreakable. We have a huge proxy array that does all the filtering. We've just brought that in-house and the reason we have done that is we want much tighter control over it," said DET's director general and its chief information officer, Stephen Wilson.
DET has developed 98 categories of websites that are accessible to students. "Every internet site that's known is actually categorised. If it isn't known, it's blocked. If you go to a site and it's not categorised you can't get to it," he said.
Questioning as Technology
North American (and Australian one for that matter) schools are spending billions bringing networked computers into schools while neglecting the most important technology of all – the ability of students to make meaning by applying sharply honed questioning skills.1
NSW schools in second round of computers fund | Australian IT
In round one, NSW government schools received $56.2 million in funding but the state requested the federal Government to provide an additional $245 million to cover additional costs such as software licences and technical support.
"It would be unfair to schools and students to seek new computers only to find that there was insufficient funding for their operating costs from the federal Government," NSW Education Minister Verity Firth said in an interview a few weeks ago.
Gary Stager 2002 vision for 1:1 learning. Ban the lab!!
This article was unacceptable to publishers initially. "Do we really want to reinforce the concept of the computer lab?"
Digital Trends Videos - Asus Eee PC Ultra Portable Laptop
Crazy that schools are considering students will be engaged using these glorified typewriters for communication only. Where's the top Blooms vers.2. Where is the creativity - Windows Movie Maker can't even run on them.
Viddler.com - Those Wacky Kids - Uploaded by mpesce
Keynote from "The Digital Education Revolution", Adelaide, Monday 2 June 2008. All about kids, hyperconnectivity, and the gap between how the kids communicate today and how we try to educate them in the classroom. It's equal parts rant and storytime. Seemed to go over very well.
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