Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh show some basic tricks to surviving your Outlook experience with version 2007. Some quick and easy things to do that will let Outlook do the work
Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh show some basic tricks to surviving your Outlook experience with version 2007. Some quick and easy things to do that will let Outlook do the work.
Generally speaking, schools are excruciatingly slow to change. Even when schools are making a concerned effort to be innovative and re-think traditional modes of learning, it often ends up being a variation of what’s already in place.
has to be driven by a focus on authentic learning and learner competency. What can our students do? What should they be able to do? How do we help them become capable of doing the things that really matter?
“Kids can get carried away with what they type and things can get out of hand,” Ms. Schwartz said. “That is why, with all of this, it’s more important to teach overall responsibility than to attack individual texts you may encounter if you decide to snoop.”
The Collier County School Board recently voted to change the student code of conduct regarding cell phones and, in the process, expanded the code to allow schools to petition to allow students to use their phones in the classroom — to some exte
The Collier County School Board recently voted to change the student code of conduct regarding cell phones and, in the process, expanded the code to allow schools to petition to allow students to use their phones in the classroom — to some extent.
“There are many educational things that you can use phones to do. The principals want to use the phone as an educational tool in the classroom.”
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We're often doing
things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive
processing
It is
an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an
artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when
we pay continuous partial attention.
Our students need adults to stop being afraid, and stop hiding, so education can get out of the shadows and into the light of the world in which our children live.
were not created to keep students stuck in the past, educated in a disconnected school environment that shares little resemblance to the real world for which we should be preparing our children.
Students can access websites that do not contain or that filter mature content. They can use their real names, pictures, and work (as long it doesn’t have a grade/score from a school) with the notification and/or permission of the student and their parent or guardian.
In contrast to all this is the general sentiment among many teachers that "we need more PD!", or the always-amusing "How can they expect us to learn new things if all we get is a few PD days a year?"
That model is no longer sustainable and the days of PD as something that is done "to you" by "experts" a couple of times a year are over.
Learning needs to be ongoing. The world is changing. There are new tools that can help students learn, new ideas about learning, new brain research, new emerging technologies, new social structures, and so on