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Mike Fortune

Some educators question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement - 1 views

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    Under enormous pressure to reform, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year on gadgets from text-messaging devices to interactive whiteboards that technology companies promise can raise student performance.
Celeste Sisson

EBSCOhost: Upside down and inside out: Flip Your Classroom to Improve Student Learning - 0 views

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      Faulkner  welcomes the students and talks about  the day's task as he puts a couple of  key problems on the electronic whiteboard to check for understanding on  last night's video lesson.
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      . If several students are  stuck on a problem, he might work  through more examples on the board  at the front of the class. And, just to  be sure, there are daily spot quizzes,  often using clickers so the students  and teacher get immediate results.
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      create a Moodle  site for each course. It soon became  clear that they'd have to create their  own video lessons rather than relying on prepackaged web courses or  lessons. Once the district agreed to  unblock YouTube, they embedded  the video lessons in each course site. 
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      Classroom management was another challenge, says 20-year veteran  teacher Rob Warneke: "Kids need to  be trained and guided to stay on task,  work collaboratively, solve their own  problems, be disciplined," he says.  "This is harder than making everyone  be quiet during a lecture. Thinking  and learning can be quite noisy!"
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      Students with no internet  connection can get the lessons on a  jump drive or CD.
Joan Erickson

Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Although computer-based learning is in its infancy
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      This is a 2008 article, computer-based learning is still considered to be in its infancy?
  • The classroom of today doesn't even look that much different from the classroom of thirty years ago, save for some interactive whiteboards instead of chalkboards, as well as some computers in the back of the room. How can we start down the path to transform the classroom
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  • leading companies' trajectory in an industry sustaining innovations
  • disruptive innovation extends its benefits to people who, for one reason or another, are unable to consume the original product -- so-called nonconsumers.
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