Describes teacher observation for the 21st century. There is a good TED talk with Bill Gates that describes this. Seems scary, especially the full-time intrusion on the teacher, but the ideas are interesting. What if we gave teachers the opportunity to videotape themselves or have the classroom videotaped for a day and let them watch the tape? Just to let them reflect. Wouldn't that be valuable?
Harvard resources about using video to improve instruction. I didn't click into the resources but I assume they are high quality if coming from a Harvard site.
curriculum to better prepare students for a working world that increasingly favored the technologically fluent
Teachers observed that students were more engaged when using the Mac, and they saw the effect as potentially transformative
teachers rarely lecture from the front of the classroom. Instead, they ask questions, then issue clear guidelines and expectations for students to meet. Either alone or in small groups, students research the topic on the Mac to come up with the information they need to answer each question