However, while students and the administration may be embracing the practical upsides of the switch to gmail – great value, savings and reliability – faculty at Lakehead haven’t come under Google’s spell. In late 2006, the Lakehead faculty union filed a grievance with the university, now under arbitration, asserting that the e-mail system fails to protect their privacy and academic freedom.
At the heart of the complaint is Google’s status as a U.S. company. Because Google is subject to American law, Lakehead will not be able to protect the contents of faculty’s e-mail from the U.S. government, which under the U.S. Patriot Act can compel Google to hand over data without even allowing the company to inform Lakehead that the transaction took place. Noting that Lakehead was the first school in North America that asked faculty, as well as students, to use an outsourced e-mail service, the Canadian Association of University Teachers has taken up the case.
“If a faculty member knows that any e-mail they write, by virtue of it being handled by Google, could be subject to access and seizure by U.S. security agencies, they might be much less willing to share views with their colleagues” said CAUT Executive Director James Turk. “As we’ve seen all too often, very innocent things can attract the interest of American security officials.”
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Search less, understand more - Evri - 0 views
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Here's a legal way to print money: change the font - Yahoo! Canada News - 1 views
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MILWAUKEE - Here's a way you might save US$20 this year: Change the font in the documents you print. Because different fonts require different amounts of ink to print, you could be buying new printer cartridges less often if you wrote in, say, Century Gothic rather than Arial. Schools and businesses could save thousands of dollars with font changes.
A Change Is Gonna Come -- Campus Technology - 1 views
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Mobile technology is going to be an unstoppable change agent in education.
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Practically every one of our students--rich and poor, wise and less wise--is walking around with a powerful computing device in his or her hand. These students are changing the nature of their education using those devices, whether they realize it or not--and whether we help them or not.
Shutting Up the Naysayers in Your PLC: 5 Questions with Rem Jackson -- THE Journal - 3 views
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PLCs are just a vehicle to get them to focus on the outcomes and results they want to see.
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focus totally on looking at student assessment results and on strategizing how to help students meet the assessment targets, all the other stuff becomes less important.
A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative - WSJ.com - 5 views
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Researchers believe growth in the time kids spend on computers and watching TV, plus a trend in schools toward rote learning and standardized testing, are crowding out the less structured activities that foster creativity. Mark Runco, a professor of creative studies and gifted education at the University of Georgia, says students have as much creative potential as ever, but he would give U.S. elementary, middle and high schools "a 'D' at best" on encouraging them. "We're doing a very poor job, especially before college, with recognizing and supporting creativity," he says.
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Four Student Response Systems - 2 views
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Rather than pay over $1,000 for a set of clickers, a WiFi-equipped classroom that already has iPod touches, iPads, netbooks, etc. (or invited students to bring their own) can turn those devices into a response system for much less.
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Use ipodstouches, cellphones, netbooks and a few apps as student response systems
The Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner film | Connected Principals - 1 views
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Finnish system is praised extraordinarily highly for its global success, and yet students don’t work terribly hard, have many choices, use technology creatively, enjoy the integration of the arts, and learn in a culture which emphasizes depth over breadth and less is more.
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Students are shown researching and collaborating online in their studies, and many classrooms are shown with a wide array of technological units, not just computers. Students use wikipedia and facebook when researching very current topics, and Wagner explains that there is a culture of trust that is extended to students in their technology usage.
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A particularly inspiring moment comes when Wagner reports stumbling across a project at one school, the “Innovation Camp,” in which teams of students are given 26 hours to come up with a new product or service.
New Horizon Report - 2011 K-12 Edition Out Now!| The Committed Sardine - 2 views
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Key Trends in 2011:
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Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Cloud computing Mobiles
Langwitches » Take the Technology out of the Equation - 0 views
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Maybe we need to find common ground among the teachers and administrators at our schools. Take the word “technology” out of the discussion. That word seems to mean too many different things to too many different people (even scare). Maybe we need to be talking about something no one can deny as a priority in our schools: STUDENT LEARNING. Maybe we if we talk on that common ground, there will be less resistance, more collaboration and communication on how to achieve that.
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The conductor of an orchestra does not make a sound…he depends for his power on his ability of making other people powerful.
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Darren Kuropatwa and participants from an international PLP cohort collaboratively worked on a presentation titled : Teaching Well.
Free Technology for Teachers: Five "Week in Review" News Summaries - 0 views
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Depending on the curriculum some teachers may have less time than they would like to discuss the news with their students. If you're in this situation and looking for some good "week in review" news summaries, try one of the following resources
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