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James O'Hagan

How Does New Tech Measure Up to Traditional Standards? | MindShift - 0 views

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      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Sounds peachy, but let's dig a little further. I've worked in the smoke and mirrors school before...
James O'Hagan

Tina Barseghian: Napa New Tech High: 5 Reasons This is the School of the Future - 0 views

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    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Correct me if I'm wrong but how is the objective turning the traditional high school model on it's ear?
  • 93 percent of students bring their own laptops, though 33 percent are on free or reduced lunch.
  • a student is graded on four different criteria: content, written communication (even in subjects like math), critical thinking, and work ethic.
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    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Nothing in this article leads me to believe this is a school of the future, or just another Montissori program that's plugged in. Maybe we are all closer to the education nirvana than what this article states. 
judith epcke

Tell the Kids, "I Stand with Gilbert!" : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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  • judith epcke on 25 Mar 11
     
    Possible BlogWatch discussion? Gary makes some interesting points. Could led with Wes' post on the subject then get to Gary's. Maybe for the News segment?
daniel rezac

Thoughts By Jen » Blog Archive » Yes, I am Frustrated - 1 views

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    For the last few months, there has been a grumbling in my soul regarding my "Personal Learning Network" - or as I prefer to call them "my friends online". Instead of moving forward, it feels we have come to a crossroads and have stalled. As the dweller that I am - I have spent some time in self-reflection of why this might be (both as a participant and also as a grateful receiver of info). …..and just decided to share my thoughts. 1.  The honeymoon is over. The newness of wonderment with this thing called "twitter" or "PLN"  is now over.  We are getting to know each other - the true parts of each other - and seeing each others pros and cons.  With familiarity at times can come contempt.  The being on our best behavior (whether some of us ever really were - grins) has also faded and there is impatience and nit picking where before there was compromise and "this I can ignore."    Plus, the small network that was manageable is now huge - and at times overwhelming and overstimulating. Because the "honeymoon" is over - reality is settling in…..which can be a good thing, as well as bad - it just seems (to me) that we are not as nice to each other as we used to be.
James O'Hagan

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey goes high-tech, giv... - 0 views

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  • If you were to walk around our classes, you’d see students using Google Docs to share documents, to peer edit their papers. You’d walk into a science classroom and they may be using a Wiki space so that they can their data that they’re getting from an experiment
  • Now we’ve had students that have been collaborating on projects with students in Taiwan, China, and we have an Italian class that holds class very early in the morning every Friday morning with a school in Italy
  • Basically, in every class, we’re using laptops to take notes on Microsoft Word
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 28 Mar 11
       
      That is an AWFUL lead in!
James O'Hagan

With iPads, Olympia students have world at their fingertips - Olympia School District -... - 0 views

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  • “Textbooks have really great things, but they’re also very limiting,” said Underwood, who is in her 24th year of teaching at Olympia High. “Our kids are digital kids. They respond very well to this kind of tactile environment, where they can get immediate feedback.”
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Again, the focus is on the stuff. Not the pedagogy, or the changes in teaching. Really?
  • hasn’t used iPads because they don’t work with the district’s technology system
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And this technology system is some proprietary POJ from Albania?
  • as well as a pilot program at Olympia High where students in an intensive college readiness course known as AVID were issued district-owned iPads to use throughout the year for note-taking, research and organization.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And what has been done with teacher training? Shifts in pedagogy?
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  • The district is still training many teachers on how to incorporate the use of mobile devices in their classrooms,
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      GOOD!
  • “They put them back where they’re supposed to,” she added. “They never put French books back where they’re supposed to.
  • We have a French Blog where the students' class projects (videos, comics, writing, etc... all created on the iPads) are posted. This allows for students from different class periods to observe and interact not only with what their other peers are doing but also what the other levels of the language are working on. Another really useful hands-on learing experience.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Glad to see the students getting in on making this the story it should have been.
daniel rezac

Sources: Google-branded Chrome OS netbook to launch on December 7th -- Engadget - 0 views

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  • daniel rezac on 04 Dec 10
     
    The Google Crome Netbook! Could a Cloud based OS be the answer to the school's 1-1 initiative?  Technically - a school could create their own version of Chrome OS and control the atmosphere for students. This way students could bring in their own devices that are running Chrome OS for your school. 
daniel rezac

EdTechTrek - 0 views

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  • Educon is described as “both a conversation and a conference”. Although I don’t want to romanticize Educon as a learning event, one of the things I appreciate the most is the nature of the presentations. They are indeed conversations. Dialog and open thinking are essential to the “structure” of the sessions. And, often, the conversations spill over to the hallways, the stairways, the meals, and of course, in virtual spaces. Back to the quotation above, it resonates greatly on a number of dimensions. The essence of its message to me is that innovation happens as a result of continued open exchange of ideas in conjunction with intentional and serendipitous expansion of one’s learning network. It is this open and networked exchange of ideas that leads to the creation of new ideas.
James O'Hagan

Author Asks the Question, Is Google Evil? - FoxNews.com - 0 views

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  • Precursor
  • “They are pack rats. They keep everything, and they actually have three copies of everything that goes in there. People have no idea they literally have a mirror of the online world and three copies on Google’s computers,” says Cleland.
  • “They have no respect for other people's valuables. They are a serial scofflaw of copyright policy, of patents, of trademarks, and of confidential information.”
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  • "Is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders?" asks Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich when Fox News requested the company's comment on Cleland's book. "Everyone knows that Mr. Cleland stopped being a neutral analyst years ago and is now paid by Microsoft and AT&T to criticize Google full-time."
  • is a consultant to some of Google's competitors, including Microsoft and AT&T.
  • Cleland refused to confirm it or reveal the names of any of his clients
  • "What happens is that Google is the company that most successfully takes advantage of the Internet," says Levy, who does caution that "there's a real concern because they do have a lot of information about us, and I think Google should be as transparent as possible. In most cases, I think they are pretty transparent about what they have on you and how it works."
  • On Tuesday, South Korean authorities reportedly raided that country's Google offices to investigate if the company "has been illegally collecting private data."
  • "I don't think there's ever been a U.S. corporation that has had so much control," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in Washington, D.C., who also teaches Internet privacy law at Georgetown. "It would be like a company producing automobiles, providing oil, and building the highways ... We're in a similar situation today with the Internet and Google."
  • "Any company with the power of Google has to be watched," says Levy. "But I don’t think Google is a company which is intending to take over the world in some sort of negative sense." But Cleland's version of Google argues that it does. "Google says overtly that they want to change the world," Cleland says, warning that "Google is leading us towards a collectivist society, a planned economy and one world government." "The more you learn about Google, the more troubled you will become."
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