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Jennifer Garcia

Education Week: It's Time for a New Kind of High School - 0 views

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reform school model highschool postindustrial

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  • withholds responsibility from, students.
  • We have lost sight of young people's potential for responsibility, and it can be argued that in doing so we have sacrificed many opportunities for growth and usefulness.
  • Students see themselves as passive participants
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  • he steady drone of teachers' voices in room after room. The sound of boredom is deafening.
  • We need to tear apart the school day, the high school timetable, the school year, the four-year diploma.
  • The time has come to stop tinkering with an antiquated model. We are delayed in our thinking because those who were able to suffer through or even thrive in this dying high school model have grown up to be teachers and lawyers and businesspeople who now advocate for reforms through the prism of their experiences.
  • Jennifer Garcia on 09 May 12
     
    high school reform
Jennifer Garcia

Students learn smart-phone app making | eSchool News - 0 views

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apps design program smart-phone students Highschool

shared by Jennifer Garcia on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 26 Jan 12
     
    "Students will work in teams to create a real-world mobile app during the 12-week, after-school course. Enrollment is optional, but as of Jan. 24, 30 Apex students had registered, said Julie Oster, director of the Academy of Information Technology, an Apex High School program that follows the NAF curriculum."
Jennifer Garcia

2011 Conference on High School Transformation Keynote Address by Sir Ken Robinson on Vimeo - 1 views

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 24 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 24 Nov 11
     
    "Rowland Foundation Conference on High School Transformation with Sir Ken Robinson September 22, 2011 at the University of Vermont "
Jennifer Garcia

Best School Website Awards - 0 views

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school website awards best design web Highschool

shared by Jennifer Garcia on 15 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Best School Websites" Some winning examples and how they've been rated. Design Ease of use,Copywriting, Interactivity Use of technology, Innovation, Content
Jennifer Garcia

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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iPads textbooks ipad highschool tools web2.0 apps

shared by Jennifer Garcia on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 22 Sep 11
     
    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.
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