1:1 laptop

Excellent 1 to 1 resource

Lessons Learned About Providing Laptops for All Students

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As a way of helping states and districts interested in laptop initiatives, NEIRTEC has reviewed published lessons learned from many laptop initiatives around the country and has prepared this paper, Lessons Learned About Providing Laptops for All Students. A Web discussion board has been set up to help promote discussion about these or other lessons learned.

Great site if you are 1:1 with MacBooks...

A 1:1 TECH COORDINATOR'S BLOG. Lots of information about their venture into the 1:1 world

I was on a conference call this evening with some other educators and administrators in the state of Maine. The purpose of the call was to brainstorm ideas for a video about preparing for teaching in a 1:1 computing environment. In advance of the call we were asked to generate a list of things that teachers should know before teaching in a 1:1 environment.

To watch the video, you'll first need to install the flash player.

This may be the device that makes 1:1 a reality for many. I want one of these today!

Maine Education Commissioner Sue Gendron said the state has seen benefits in using the Apple notebooks in the middle schools; it wants to see those same benefits for high-school students.

"We have seen incredible success, with our middle schools showing increased student engagement and achievement with (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) in place, and we want to bring this same opportunity to our high schools," Gendron said in a statement. "This is not just about technology--it's about using the technology to support education."

The hardware computing landscape is changing in big ways, and netbooks are a major catalyst along with mobile devices.

Information Literacy in the Laptop Classroom
TCRecord

From the Flickr Site:

About Reinventing Project-Based Learning

This group
illustrates what project-based learning can look like, especially when
digital tools help students break free from the confines of
teacher-driven and classroom-bound instruction.



Group administrator Jane Krauss and colleague Suzie Boss have just
coauthored a book "Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide
to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age". In writing the book we
visited with teachers from around the world who are transforming the
learning experience through meaningful and rigorous projects. We hope
you will submit photos that capture the spirit of project-based
learning. Please read the group rules for details.



Please join us!



Meet us on our Reinventing Project-Based Learning blog at the address below:

http://reinventingpbl.blogspot.com

From the website (see other clips in this post more more on this project):

Scott Schwister of Higher Edison was nice enough to inform me that the 1001 Flat World Tales (book release late July) was mentioned in this NECC workshop as an "example of global collaboration."  Way out here in Korea, that's nice to learn.  They don't call Korea "the Hermit Kingdom" for nothing.

(Registration required)  From the article:

"Today, when students take the [SAT], they can take a programmable
calculator into the test with them-and that's a bridge to a day when
that device contains access to all the world's present information," he
said. "The question is, what are we testing when we enable people to
come in with the cloud of human knowledge behind them?"

It
is inevitable that students will bring those tools with them to future
tests, he said, and when they do, "we will have changed the nature of
what we test to something a lot more like our ability to find, build,
and use complex information tools in real time."

Wanted: More IT workers



Tech jobs on the rise; schools aim to fill demand

Great list of links for DS, many from NECC07. NB assessing DS especially.