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Welcome to the Holland Christian wiki supporting iPads in education. We are excited to see how this technology can improve teaching and learning. Right now our teachers are doing a pilot test of iPads at each grade level. We hope to share our experiences with iPad in this wiki. This also be a place to share resources for applications and tips for use.

A new study by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, finds that students’ perceptions of their teachers correlate with the teachers’ value-added scores; in other words, “students seem to know effective teaching when they experience it.” The correlation is stronger for mathematics than for ELA; this is one of many discrepancies between math and ELA in the study. According to the authors, “outside the early elementary grades when students are first learning to read, teachers may have limited impacts on general reading comprehension.” This peculiar observation should raise questions about curriculum, but curriculum does not come up in the report.

Bad lecturing is dead (as it should be); a corollary is most teachers are bad lecturers (which they are)

Assessments are most useful when they focus on informing instruction, not grades.