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05 Nov 09

» Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher

"What we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool. Blocking one distraction doesn’t solve the problem of students off task – it just encourages them to find another site to distract them. Students off task is not a technology problem – it’s a behavior problem. It is our intention that we help students to learn the appropriate on-task behaviors instead of assuming that we can use filters to manage student use. Rather than blocking sites on an ad hoc basis, we will instead be working with folks to help them through computer and lab management issues in a way that promotes student responsibility. We know that the best filters in a classroom or lab are the people in that lab – both the educational staff monitoring student computer use as well as the students themselves."

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14 May 09

If Obama doesn’t really care about 21st century skills, perhaps EETT proposed cuts don’t matter? | ISTE’s NECC09 Blog

“During the past several months, the Obama Administration has outlined a vision of educational innovation and improvement to enable our nation’s children to compete in the global economy. But today’s budget proposal falls far short of the targeted investments needed to ensure all students have the modernized classrooms and technology-rich instruction needed to achieve this vision.”

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  • “During the past several months, the Obama Administration has outlined a vision of educational innovation and improvement to enable our nation’s children to compete in the global economy. But today’s budget proposal falls far short of the targeted investments needed to ensure all students have the modernized classrooms and technology-rich instruction needed to achieve this vision.”
14 Nov 08

Smith English 9 07-08: This I Believe Essays

For the second year in a row, I have had my students write, revise, and rewrite their "This I Believe" essays based off National Public Radio's segment. These students had to not only write their essay for our class publication, but were required to publi

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17 Oct 08

If Elected ... - Rivals’ Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation

Both presidential candidates, in their careers and in their campaigns, have made detailed arguments for how the nation should deal with technology rivals, sharpen its competitive edge and improve what experts call its “ecology of innovation.”

Yet their v

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09 Oct 08

Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4: Implementing Web 2.0 in Secondary Schools

# Web 2.0 engaged many learners who were tentative contributors in class or who had special needs, and supported learners’ natural curiosity by enabling expression through different media and a sense of audience, providing access to further resources and

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08 Nov 07

New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology - New York Times

  • Quote: "All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhance
    learning -- supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs,
    creating wireless networks — have instead enabled distraction. Perhaps
    attendance records should include a new category: present but otherwise
    engaged."

    Note: I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids "Turn your phones ON!" when they come to class. Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as in let's learn how we can use our phones (since just about every student had one at his school) to extend what we're doing in class. We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from early on by modeling our own cell phone use to access infromation and learn throughout the curriculum. Bottom line is yep, this is a much more distract-able world. We have to somehow find strategies to teach our kids to use cell phones and computers and the like in effective ways, and we also have to bend our thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do in classrooms in the first place.
    - willrich on 2007-11-08

Remote Access: Educational Leap - Frogging

  • We need to leave behind ideas of incrementally increasing our understanding, and incrementally changing our teaching methods, slowly bringing people up to speed. This idea worked fine when ideas of literacy and education were not rapidly changing; but the - willrich on 2006-08-06

Legalized 'Cheating'

  • In a wireless age where kids can access the Internet's vast store of information from their cellphones and PDAs, schools have been wrestling with how to stem the tide of high-tech cheating. Now, some educators say they have the answer: Change the rules. - willrich on 2006-08-06
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