"I Need My Teachers To Learn was Written and Performed by Kevin Honeycutt and produced by Charlie Mahoney (who also played percussion, bass, and Piano). This has gone through many incarnations, but after hooking up some good mics and recording equipment, I think we have a keeper. This recording includes background vocals from the Turning Point Learning Center Choir, which is composed of our virtual and face-2-face students. The newest version of the accompanying video will soon be posted on YouTube.
I have been reading about how some districts in other states have used web tools to avoid the break in the learning process. I read on Diane Cordell’s blog about a Kansas charter school–Turning Point Learning Center– for whom a snow day is merely a blip on their radar. They use Scribd, Google tools, and other open source formats.
Kevin Honeycutt watched as a group of students at the Turning Point Learning Center, a K—8 charter school in Emporia, KS, took turns with an iPad, rocking out on a virtual guitar as they rehearsed for an upcoming spring concert.
Steve Dembo, online community manager for Discovery Education, has postulated about the device on his blog. "While being able to store a thousand books on the device is wonderful, that in itself doesn't increase student learning," he wrote in an email. "But when you begin combining the written knowledge with images, videos, and interactive activities in a personal, intuitive interface, that's when we begin truly experiencing the future of learning."