Buffalo City Schools Technology and Learning

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Nice artice that brings insight on how to work through levels of cognition for students. So many of them cannot summarize, because, for the most part, teachers may not be using the best techniques to elicit good responses.

While it may be true that teachers may not use the best techniques, summarizing is a difficult skill to teach in and of itself.Most students will equate summarizing with " giving a book report" and misconstrue what summarizing truly entails. Having students sift through details and information to arrive at "the important details" is a continuous cognitive process that children reach at different levels at different times in their cognitive development which is one reason why I think this skill is so difficult to teach.

Basic, but not useless. It's comforting to know that others who do this job come to the same conclusions that we do.

Great post - it says it all.

Wordle lets you make word creations from text. Words most frequently appearing show up larger. Its actually pretty cool! Here is a wordle made from the last 20 articles posted here on diigo. If the District mandates word walls, we can at least do them with a hint of tech!

Just click the pic...

Prettty cool, but as district word walls...I don't think it'll fly.

A follow-up to the administrators' tool box - this is part one for the teachers

WOW list of a zillion web 2.0 tools

Comprehensive collection of Information Fluency tools

I should go out and tell someone :-)

Professors think they are doing reasonably well when it comes to using technology in the classroom, according to a survey released here this week by CDW-G at the annual meeting of Educause. Not everyone agrees with the faculty view of things

Yikes!

The best thing about free is...well it's free. I'm still a die-hard Mac fan so I had to post this. When I find one for PCs I'll post it. As one commentator pointed out, this list was compiled awhile ago.

Thanks for posting this list, Ken. I'm downloading some of the stuff to test-drive right now!

Buffalo City School District (BSCD) TIS Kathleen Emhof's teacher web page. The site is clean, efficient and provides or links to many staff resources. Three features really stand out . First the subpages under the section My Home Page are written in a conversational tone. I think that has an inviting appeal. Second is the use of the Calendar feature of the home page. This moves the lab scheduling off her shoulders and encourages the staff to plan and communicate with each other. Third and lastly, making all relevant itech forms available to the staff. I have just a few suggestions: - consider password protecting the teacher resources page - create separate student/parent resource section

You can have the ultimate webpage, but the true end goal is getting teachers and others to use it. That takes a great deal of diplomacy. Hillary, are you listening?

Ken, thank you for highlighting one of our colleagues pages. One of the areas I believe we must focus more on is improving teacher pages among the teachers (or just get them to start one!).

I don't even buy batteries for my digital camera before visiting this page. Dave's Picks is a must see.