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Michelle Krill

Speak Up Press Release - 0 views

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21st netday pd speakup

shared by Michelle Krill on 14 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The 2007 online survey collected authentic, unfiltered views and ideas from over 367,000 education stakeholders representing schools in all 50 states, bringing the total of survey participants to over 1.2 million over the past 5 years.
  • This disconnect is evident in the fact that 66% of school administrators, 47% of teachers, and 43% of parents say "local schools are doing a good job preparing students for the jobs and careers of the future," but over 40% of middle and high school students stated that teachers limit their use of technology in schools. Forty-five percent of middle and high school students indicated that tools meant to protect them, such as firewalls and filters are inhibiting their learning.
  • "It is in our nation's best interest that we support and facilitate student usage of technology for learning."
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  • 46% said they would like to receive specific professional development on how to effectively integrate gaming technologies into curriculum.
  • With the release of Speak Up 2007 results, Evans called upon education leaders at all levels to put aside their own "digital immigrant" paradigms and to listen to students who are not only on the cutting edge of technology innovation but whose future is dependent upon our ability to deliver upon the promise of a world quality, global 21st century education.
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Apr 08
     
    Students Want the 21st Century Classroom, but Schools Not Meeting Student Expectations, According to Latest National Study
Jimbo Lamb

Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...081215fa_fact_gladwell

shared by Jimbo Lamb on 17 Dec 08 - Cached
  • In teaching, the implications are even more profound. They suggest that we shouldn’t be raising standards. We should be lowering them, because there is no point in raising standards if standards don’t track with what we care about. Teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree—and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before.
    • Jimbo Lamb
      Jimbo Lamb on 17 Dec 08
       
      I totally agree with this statement. If I were graduating from college today with the same GPA when I did, I wouldn't be able to get my certificate due to the higher standards. Yet, here I am, now helping other (veteran) teachers improve their instruction.
anonymous

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...05tablets.html

ipads

shared by anonymous on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      Finally! We couldn't do that before. And we all KNOW the higher order thinking that goges on in Jeopardy games. Ugh!
  • The iPads cost $750 apiece
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      $750 EACH? They couldn't get a laptop for that? One that could do all that this ipad can do AND MORE??
  • Educators, for instance, are still divided over whether initiatives to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      And the reason is that we buy toys and only allow our students to do what they always did before, yet we expect different results. Notice what they say these kids will use these ipads for. Revolutionary? Hardly. Sound education? Not even close.
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  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      Exactly! When they see that they can't add apps or use it as a personal learning deice (locked down, it's still learning that's direted by the teacher and not by the student) the novelty will wear off VERY quickly.
  • $56,250 for the initial 75
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      How many regular laptops could they have bought for that amount? Machines that can do all the ipad can do AND MORE!
  • 32-gigabyte, with case and stylus
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      They need 32 gig? I'll be willing to be they don't fill HALF of that. NO music. NO photos. Just apps? This decision was made by someone who thought more is better. Oh, and.. stylus? HUH?
  • play math games, study world maps and read “Winnie the Pooh.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      Did you hear me screaming on this one? OH BOY! They can read Winnie the Pooh! And finally study world maps. And THEN what?
  • “I think this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector,
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      And we know how much the overhead projector raises the level of Bloom's and fosters student-centered environments. It allows the TEACHERS to do things. Not the students.
  • The New York City public schools have ordered more than 2,000 iPads, for $1.3 million
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHUUUUUGGGGHGHHHHHH!!!
  • More than 200 Chicago public schools applied for 23 district-financed iPad grants totaling $450,000. The Virginia Department of Education is overseeing a $150,000 iPad initiative
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      Economic recession? WHAT economic recession? Oh my. I hope that folks revisit these 'investments' in two years. There will be NO improvement and they will again blame the technology instead of the fact that it was the WRONG technology!
  • “If there isn’t an app that does something I need, there will be sooner or later,”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Jan 11
       
      Yes, but students won't be able to install it.
anonymous

Khan Academy Login - 4 views

khanexercises.appspot.com/login

web2.0 tools education resources web learning teaching technology google_apps khan videos math science

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  • anonymous on 07 Jan 11
     
    We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. Log in to the Khan Academy web application for user-paced practice and instruction
  • anonymous on 07 Jan 11
     
    WOW, self pace lessons accompanied by the Khan Academy videos. Works with Google Apps and teachers can become "coaches" for the students to run reports on their progress totally free. Looks like it will grow in math and then to science, just a guess b/c of the Google Sky use. Please check this out especially if you have Google Apps in your district.
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