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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Tablet PCs Transform Learning and Schools
Tablet PCs transform learning and schools that acknowledge their presence. With a Tablet PC, each student can choose how, where, and when her or she wants to learn. Microsoft offers these 10 benefits that a Tablet PC offers to individualized … Continue reading
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School IT Infrastructure for Tablet PCs
The American School of Bombay has this infrastructure to support learning of 600 students, to allow teachers to share information efficiently and maintain proficiency, to enable administrators to manage the school more effectively, and to facilitate timely communications between students, … Continue reading
Complain Not.
Complain not. Explain not. Disdain not. Anonymous, traditional Mennonite/Amish/Anabaptist saying, without a date of origin, cited repeatedly by parents and by public school teachers at least during the 20th century into the 1960s, and heard occasionally into the 1990s. Many … Continue reading
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Tablet PC Flashcards
Mary Ann Wolf, Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), tells how schools increase student learning. One example she offered described using teacher made reading words flash cards with a student who did not read. By the end of … Continue reading
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A Lesson
They all teach the same lesson: If you really think you’re right, stick to your guns no matter how much opposition or ridicule you have to put up with. As Gracie said on one of our shows, “They all laughed … Continue reading
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Explaining NCLB’s AYP
Erin Dillon, Policy Analyst, and Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-director, Education Sector, provide a guide to understanding how No CHild Left Behind’s complex accountability system works overall and in different states. In States’ Evidence: What It Means to Make ‘Adequate Yearly … Continue reading
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Tablet PCs at American School of Bombay
Every student at American School of Bombay (ASB) (grades 6 to 12) during the 2007-2008 academic year is required to use a Tablet PC with specifications defined by the school to fit their IT infrastructure. They encourage parents to purchase … Continue reading
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Adjust Software, Extend Battery Use
Andre Michaud describes Creating power-aware applications, Power support on Windows XP, Power support on Windows Vista, Custom WPF dependency properties and routed events. As mobile computers become increasingly prevalent, battery life has become more important. Hardware manufacturers are aware of … Continue reading
Hacking a Wii Remote for Physics Class
Lisa Zyga reports how to use with secondary school students a Nintendo Wii remote control accelerometer as a pendulum. To teach students concepts in dynamics and kinematics such as force, velocity and acceleration, Vannoni and Straulino used the intact Wii … Continue reading
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Special Education Reform and Improvement Research
Dave Nagel reports that SRI International will synthesize research and provide practice guidelines to inform and improve special education reform efforts for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). WWC is a project overseen by the United States Department of Education. SRI … Continue reading
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