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Stacey Wigant

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Paperless Classroom Reality pln_course

shared by Stacey Wigant on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Today our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones ... So why are California's public school students still forced to lug around antiquated, heavy, expensive textbooks?"
  • Today our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones ... So why are California's public school students still forced to lug around antiquated, heavy, expensive textbooks?"
  • "That has probably been achieved mostly in the past 10 years. Ever since Tony Blair came in and talked about 'education, education, education,' at least £2bn has been invested in learning technology, and if things carry on in the same vein, perhaps 40% of educational resources will be digital in 10 years time."
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  • Publishers such as Hodder Education already offer a range of online resources alongside conventional textbooks, and Pearson sells electronic versions of most of its textbooks, either in interactive form, or as a straight portable document format (pdf). Last year, Pearson earned £960m revenue from its digital products and services – around a fifth of its total revenue.
  • replicate. "You can flick back and forth in them quickly, you can scribble in them, it's easy to share one between a number of students," she said. "Though theoretically electronic textbooks can be much more interactive, the current reality is that a lot of them are little more than pdf versions of the paper book," she added. "A colleague of mine the other day got it right when he said that if you could invent anything that's as powerful as the book in the next hundred years we'll have done well."
  • "You can flick back and forth in them quickly, you can scribble in them, it's easy to share one between a number of students," she said. "Though theoretically electronic textbooks can be much more interactive, the current reality is that a lot of them are little more than pdf versions of the paper book," she added. "A colleague of mine the other day got it right when he said that if you could invent anything that's as powerful as the book in the next hundred years we'll have done well."
  • Deena Logsdon on 15 Jun 09
     
    This is an interesting concept. I think it would save a lot of time not to have to copy from textbooks, but I wonder how long it will actually take before it becomes a reality. Unfortunately, as the article states, there are still quite a few people (students) who do not have access to the internet. That alone will cause some problems with the paperless classroom concept.
Matt Townsley

AllThingsPLC » Blog Archive » Stop Sliding Away… - 1 views

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shared by Matt Townsley on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • It is a flawed assumption to believe that the presence of the right structures alone will ensure teams are successful.
  • One of the simplest ways principals can monitor the work of teams is to be visible and available.
  • Effective principals recognize that “a critical step in moving an organization from rhetoric to reality is to establish the indicators of progress to be monitored, the process for monitoring them, and the means for sharing the results throughout the organization.”
  • Matt Townsley on 11 Feb 11
     
    This one has outcome 6 written all over it. 
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