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Bryan Lee

Educational Technology Guy: Evernote - get organized - free and on all platforms - 0 views

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evernote technology education

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  • Bryan Lee on 11 Aug 11
     
    How to use Evernote, a free web-based organization platform for organizing your classes.
  • Bryan Lee on 11 Aug 11
     
    How to use Evernote, a free web-based organization platform for organizing your classes.
Scott Thomas

Teaching faculty about effective use of clickers - 0 views

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faculty clickers

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  • Scott Thomas on 04 Oct 11
     
    powerpoint loaded with (research based) resources for effective use of clickers in the classroom
Bryan Lee

10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 2 views

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laptops technology education learning maine

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  • Ten years later, each seventh- and eighth-grader in Maine public schools and every grades 7-12 teacher has a laptop paid for by state taxpayers, at an annual cost of $11 million
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Do these laptops follow the students around throughout high school I wonder, or are they just dedicated to the middle schools?
  • The annual cost for the high school laptops is about $7 million, or $242 per student
  • The price includes technical development for teachers, support and repair.
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  • And, through the Maine Department of Education, 60 percent of Maine high-schoolers have laptops, paid for by local property taxpayers. That's a total of 72,000 laptops, according to the DOE
  • students do not get to keep the laptops
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      I poked around and found the Maine site containing the information: http://www.maine.gov/mlti/index.shtml 
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      ...but do students get to take the laptops home?  What is their acceptable use policy?  What user agreement do they use?
  • Writing test scores have improved
  • schoolwork more interesting
  • A 2009 study by David Silvernail of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute at the University of Southern Maine showed that laptops helped students become better writers, boosting writing test scores statewide
  • math skills have jumped
  • Educators credit the method of teaching math in middle school: laptops, no textbooks.
  • In 2001-02, Freeport Middle School's eighth grade passing rate on basic math tests was about 50 percent. In 2009-10, it was 91 percent, math teacher Alex Briasco-Brin said
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      It's got to be more than just the laptops.  I can't see how the laptops themselves are panaceas.  What lesson changes is the article not mentioning?
  • Gov. Angus King's proposal to give every seventh-grader in Maine a laptop
  • equal access
  • In physical education classes, students create movies to show their juggling skills and gross motor skills
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      LOL, brilliant; not what I think of when I think of PE, but brilliant.
  • learn advertising and to analyze media
  • math teachers doing online skill-based type of things and online quizzes
  • Glogster where they create digital posters, and upload photos and music for reports.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Used this in class.  It's fun, the kids like it, and it's easy.
  • They'd throw their wallet at the problem. Those kids came in with professional-looking documents,” Robinson said, compared to plain-looking reports from students whose parents did not have as much money. Having laptops means all students can do the same quality report, regardless of their parents' income, “because they all have the same tools,” Robinson said.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      This sort of echoes the helicopter parent problem mentioned at the in-service, when parents alleviate stress by either doing the kids' project, or offsetting problems with dollars.  It comes down to an issue of educational equity.
  • “I got used to knowing when to go on Skype: after my homework is done; when to go on Facebook: after my homework is done. As I got better, my grades started to go back up,” Trevor said.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      He's learning digital citizenship as well as personal responsibility.
  • the laptops go home, where kids have access to all sites
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      At FETC, Verizon Wireless claimed to be able to block sites through the coverage they provide.  That was specifically for cellular handhelds in class.  Does the same hold for wireless access?  Could it?
  • Learning happens best when you make mistakes
  • “Part of it is supervision, he said. You don't hand the keys to your car to your teenager without rules.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Amen, and again I say Amen.
  • Pennsylvania started a program but closed its doors when funding went away
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      In Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", the Mercury astronauts mentioned what it was that launched those rockets.  It was funding.  "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."  It's the same everywhere.
  • 'I want this device to be an extension of their arm, a routine way to learn,'”
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Dr. Elliot Solloway from U. of Michgan thinks likewise.
Scott Thomas

ActiveGrade - Standards-Based Assessment Gradebook - 0 views

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assessment grading SBG gradebook

shared by Scott Thomas on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Scott Thomas on 15 Apr 11
     
    I've become intrigued by SBG and came across this. I'm not sure if this is the only gradebook for SBG, but it's an interesting look at a different way of determining a grade
  • Scott Thomas on 15 Apr 11
     
    are simple averages the only way to think about how to determine someone's overall grade?
Bryan Lee

New College of Florida - Academics - 0 views

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new college florida

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  • Each student is responsible in the last analysis for his or her own education. The best education demands a joint search for learning by exciting teachers and able students. Students’ progress should be based on demonstrated competence and real mastery rather than on the accumulation of credits and grades. Students should have from the outset opportunities to explore areas of deep interest to them.
Bryan Lee

Online Resources for Problem Based Learning - 0 views

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resources learning online PBL

shared by Bryan Lee on 02 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bryan Lee on 02 May 11
     
    An online resource guide for PBL
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