Skip to main content

Home/ Literacy with ICT/ Group items matching "16" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
John Evans

The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Ms. Rosalia, 54, is part of a growing cadre of 21st-century multimedia specialists who help guide students through the digital ocean of information that confronts them on a daily basis. These new librarians believe that literacy includes, but also exceeds, books.
  • “The days of just reshelving a book are over,” said Ms. Rosalia, who came to P.S. 225 nearly six years ago after graduating at the top of her class at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. “Now it is the information age, and that technology has brought out a whole new generation of practices.”
John Evans

Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
  • Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
  • “This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting, which received a $1 million grant from Qualcomm to conduct the research.
John Evans

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Staff Development That Sticks - 0 views

  • A gifted education specialist explains how to energize professional development while minding your budget.
  • Effective professional development walks that fine line between satisfying the teachers and satisfying building-level, district-level, state-level, or national-level expectations of what teachers need to be learning. If we focus solely on what teachers request, some important topics could be overlooked. But if we focus solely on fulfilling bureaucratic expectations, the teachers can become a less-than-receptive audience.
  • My district has implemented a few strategies in recent years that have proven to be very effective. Perhaps some of these ideas could work in your location as well. • Give teachers a role in planning
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • • Get feedback
  • • Use your local resources
  • • Make time Build in time for teachers to figure out how to use what they've learned.
  • • Practice what you preach
  • • Model good-learner strategies and protocol
John Evans

Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
    • John Evans
       
      Hmm. Wonder when RR Sd will open their HS to cellphone use?
John Evans

Computer Makers Prepare to Stake Bigger Claim in Phones - 0 views

  • The computer industry has hit upon its Next Big Thing. It is called a phone.
  • The computer industry has hit upon its Next Big Thing. It is called a phone.
  • many PC makers and chip companies are charging into the mobile-phone business, promising new devices that can pack the horsepower of standard computers into palm-size packages.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • “The action is really with the smartphones where everyone is competing to cram the most features into a phone,” said Linley Gwennap, a veteran chip industry analyst and head of the Linley Group. “I think of PCs as just kind of boring these days.”
  • It is a development that spells serious competition for established cellphone makers and phone companies
« First ‹ Previous 221 - 240 of 397 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page