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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Glossary – Learning with Tablet PCs 2.0
This glossary gives priority to terms that describe behavior of people as they learn, including with Tablet and other mobile PCs. It updates earlier glossary notes. It increases the number of terms and refines definitions, expecially those related to NESI … Continue reading
aLEAP and Monetized Learning
State minimum academic performance standards provide a useful step toward monetizing learning. Teachers have opposed these two indices of public school learning. I have opposed them also, partly because they limit convenient instructional work-arounds. Yet, we all know that we … Continue reading
Patrick Carman Advises Novice Writers
“Read a thousand books to find your voice. Tell stories. Carry a journal. Use it “not as a place to go to work, but as a place to have a good time.” This was advice from best-selling author Patrick Carman … Continue reading
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Maine First with Personal Access to Learning Technology
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative made Maine the first state (in 2002) to use technology to transform teaching and learning in classrooms statewide; first with a plan to equip all students and teachers in grades 7 to 12 with personal … Continue reading
Posted in Factoid, Mobile PC Context, One-on-One Learning
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A Test of School Leadership
WE BELIEVE TECHNOLOGY is at the core of education reform, so we are giving you money and flexibility, but it is up to you to make it happen and then tell us what works. That was the clear message I … Continue reading
Blogger Writes Building a Professional Learning Community
Bill Ferriter offers a quick summary of his and coauthor Parry Graham’s new book “Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year.” Congratulations, Authors, for a noble effort! What you’ll see if you decide to … Continue reading
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7K+ Years to Count Teachers’ Salaries and Benefits Value
At the rate of counting one dollar per second, it would take more than 7,000 years to count the $225 billion of salaries and benefits paid by local, state, and Federal funds to U.S. public school teachers in a year. … Continue reading
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Five myths about paying good teachers more
Thomas Tock, Executive Director, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, identifies antidotes to myths about performance pay for teachers who consume an estimated $220 billion a year in local, state, and Federal funds for salaries and benefits: (1) there’s … Continue reading
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A “TEACHER’S DASHBOARD” FOR A HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA CLASS
“Networked Tablet PCs have great potential in classroom settings, including use in small group in-class problem-solving activities. It is possible to obtain substantial amounts of data about student activity during a lesson: what they referred to, notes taken and erased, … Continue reading
Lifting Rationed Learning by 2020
Education Sector ran a 2-day chat about the expansion of “school choice” to public support of computer based individualized K12 student learning choices in and out of schools. The experts in the chat think this expansion will dominate public schools … Continue reading