Edreach Group

Is this thing a good idea? Whether you like IWBs or not, I'm not entirely clear what this "stick" is all about.

Are parents justified in being angry about a feature they didn't know existed even though it is easily disabled in their settings? Interesting article on how an unsupervised 4 year old racked up over $80 of "in-app" purchases within a free app.

Blog entry for 12/15/2010

Another "where do you stand on this issue?" thought. Might make for interesting discussion.

Make Cinematic Narratives instead of Digital StoriesGood skills for iMovie 9 or iMovie 11 (there are small variations)

There are 24 hours in each day. Between school and sleep, I have five hours to spend with my school-aged kids. One would think that those are five hours in which we could decide to play a game, go to a sporting event, read books, cook dinner together, do our family chores, go to a movie, attend religious education classes, play a pick-up game with friends or even (gasp!) watch television. One might think five hours is a long time. One would be wrong.

Just wondering how others felt about this. Is a tech integration specialist the best answer? What about the comment about getting teachers to use it themselves? What do YOU think is the best way to spur more technology use in the classroom?

Let's use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com

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. 

The U.S. Department of Education blames teachers for low test scores, and parents could be next, writes Maine educator Maja Wilson. She argues that rather than looking for ways to boost achievement, officials are assigning blame through a so-called "accountability movement." She writes that Education Secretary Arne Duncan's next move might be to implement a system he saw while working in Chicago schools that graded parents on whether they were involved in schools and their students were prepared to learn

Teachers, students and parents all have roles in ensuring student success, says teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron, who lists the top 10 responsibilities of each in three blog posts. For teachers, it is important to be experts in your field, make lessons engaging and relevant and be strong role models. Wolpert-Gawron writes that students must be their own advocates, ask questions and communicate with teachers. Families, she writes, are responsible for making sure students attend school ready to learn. However, a fourth party -- policymakers and voters -- must support education if students are to succeed, Wolpert-Gawron writes.