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One Laptop One Child | Scholastic.com - 0 views

www2.scholastic.com/...article.jsp 1:1 equity students laptops
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  • quietly tell select students about the policy
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 19 Dec 08
       
      and which students then get to use this resource? What of issues of equity?
  • “We’re going to invite 20 seniors [this school year] selected by teachers,” he says. We don’t want the computers to be a distraction.”
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 19 Dec 08
       
      So is this the AP version of digital access?
  • In Forsyth, the district uses radius servers for centralized network management. This device identifies the districts’ computers, allowing them access to the network according to their status. Laptops that don’t pass this test are put on the district’s virtual lan. This gives them online access while keeping the user behind the district’s firewall and within its Internet filters. It keeps these computers—and their users—away from the district’s network.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 19 Dec 08
       
      Sounds like a resonable solution
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  • The Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park, Illinois, has taken a step in this direction by allowing students to bring their computers to school and connect to the Internet, but not log on to the district’s network, says Darrell Walery, director of technology.Stay Away from My Networkwalery sums up the struggle in this issue succinctly. He says tech directors who have been teachers favor the experiment, while those who have business backgrounds blanche at the thought. “My role as technology director is to mediate this exact issue,” he adds.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 19 Dec 08
       
      Why we need more IT who have been teachers or really understand the difference between a business and educational environment.
  • Murray’s Pennsylvania district scans each notebook before it can connect to the school server. Clean Server antivirus software is one of the tools it uses to avoid “malware” and worms. Also, the district’s scans point users to free patches and service packs that are needed to keep security up to date.
  • Compatibility seems to be less of an issue each day as more online applications become available.
  • schools can turn to the growing number of free online tools available to all.
  • Classroom management is another potential worry. If college professors feel like students sometime use their lectures as a quiet place to fool around or get other work done (see sidebar), then what chance do K–12 teachers have of getting—and keeping—25 students on task?Teachers in Pennsylvania use classroom management software (a small software download) to keep control. Murray says this program allows teachers to take complete control of each laptop if they want, pushing out their lesson to each screen, blocking all work with a single button, and even using the pcs as glorified personal response devices.
  • The last big hurdle to make this policy a reality in more districts is one that can’t be cleared with a simple software program. It is instilling the idea that teachers will no longer be the dominant information delivery for each class.
  • “How do you get teachers prepared to teach in a classroom where everyone is a teacher?
  • “Professional development is key. We have instructional technology specialists at every school. These folks are not the fix-it people but certified teachers [usually from that same building]. It’s a peer.”
  • “There’s an explosion of social activities” that computers enable, Murray says,  from talking with people worldwide to keeping in touch with like-minded groups through Twitter to having students take virtual field trips halfway around the world, or just down the street. Science students can do an online dissection with step-by-step analysis, or math problems where a simulation can help illustrate a difficult-to-grasp concept, he adds.
  • Teachers need to think about teaching in a different way,” he says. “If you’re doing that, a lot of these [problems] go away.”
  • Having kids bring in their own computers can help bring 1:1 a lot closer to reality, especially in poorer districts. Klingler says Forsyth can channel its existing computer stock to students without personal computers and help reduce tech disparity.
  • While his state’s Classrooms for the Future program brought 550 pcs into the district, the technology coordinator realizes he won’t have the funding needed to replace these machines in three or four years.
  • “The cell phone is their thing,” Walery says. “Communication is the main [goal]. They constantly text back and forth.”
  • Forsyth has even looked into using Sony Playstation handhelds in class, noting that they have a “decent Web browser.”“We want to support whatever kids bring in,” he adds.
  • “It’s much more likely in a few years all students will have their own smartphones,” he says.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 19 Dec 08
     
    How 1-1 is changing as students ask to bring in their own laptops
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Speaking Their Language - 0 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx web2.0 language learning
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  • Stetz believes that teachers shouldn’t fear exploring creative ways to use technology in the classroom. “I think we have a responsibility in any content area to incorporate technology into our lessons,” she says.
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2¢ Worth » Predictions Questions about the Next Decade - 0 views

davidwarlick.com/2cents teachers technology lesson planning publications blog
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Are we (teachers) going to become digital users or subscribers?  For decades we have been comfortable using packaged instructional content (textbooks, etc.) to help students learn, and this was probably necessary in closed learning environments.
  • What’s to come of social networking? Will we, as a larger defining education community, come to accept social learning techniques and integrate them, or will we continue to fear and block these opportunities?
  • Just how much influence might I have, as a teacher, on the learning that my students are engaged in outside of my classroom and outside of the school’s bell schedule? How might emerging ICTs enable more interesting and potent learning experiences beyond the confines of traditional schooling? How responsible am I to pursue these opportunities or do I continue to follow the traditional role of teacher and leave tech and the networks to the “natives?”
  • Barbara Lindsey on 30 Dec 09
     
    Are we (teachers) going to become digital users or subscribers?  For decades we have been comfortable using packaged instructional content (textbooks, etc.) to help students learn, and this was probably necessary in closed learning environments.  
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Create your own Comic Strip @ Stripgenerator.com 1.0.4 - 0 views

stripgenerator.com teachers students technology comic lesson planning
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 02 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 02 Jan 10
     
    According to @jannachiang this supports Chinese script.
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Pleased to Tweet You: Making a case for Twitter in the classroom - 12/1/2009 - School L... - 0 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...CA6708199.html teachers technology twitter lesson planning
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 05 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 05 Jan 10
     
    PLNs for our students
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The Tech Curve: RSU #19 Google Apps for Education Plan - 0 views

thetechcurve.blogspot.com/...e-apps-for-education-plan.html teachers technology portfolio digital portfolio blog lesson planning assessment
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 18 Dec 09
     
    Great description of how one school district is using Google Apps for lifelong learning and teaching. Terrific embedded video on advantages to migrating over to Google Email for educational institutions.
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Langwitches Blog » Backchanneling with Elementary School Students - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10
     
    Another great description of a wonderful elementary classroom project by Silvia Tolisano
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From Participation to Creation - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The primary story within our last forecast, the 2006 KWF/IFTF Map of Future Forces Affecting Education, was about participation. Specifically, that forecast showed how individuals and groups were taking advantage of participatory media, creating “smart networks” to form groups, and creating value through bottom-up collaboration in “grassroots economies.” Participants were beginning to exchange learning resources, form smart education mobs, and release education from traditional institutions. All this participation was converging with a host of other external forces to effect real changes in the learning enterprise.
  • The 2020 Forecast depicts a set of forces that are pushing us to create the future of learning as an ecosystem, in which we have yet to determine the role of education institutions as we know them today.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 04 Dec 09
     
    "The primary story within our last forecast, the 2006 KWF/IFTF Map of Future Forces Affecting Education, was about participation. Specifically, that forecast showed how individuals and groups were taking advantage of participatory media, creating "smart networks" to form groups, and creating value through bottom-up collaboration in "grassroots economies." Participants were beginning to exchange learning resources, form smart education mobs, and release education from traditional institutions. All this participation was converging with a host of other external forces to effect real changes in the learning enterprise."
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Peace Corps | Coverdell World Wise Schools - 0 views

www.peacecorps.gov/...translations.cfm spanish french chinese critical languages lesson planning
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 10 Jan 10
     
    World Language Resources based on peace corps volunteer experiences!
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Curriculum 21 - Mapping the Global Classroom of the Future - About Us - 0 views

www.curriculum21.com/index.php teachers lesson planning curriculum assessment
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  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners. The impetus origniated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. As we examined maps emerging across the United States and overseas it was evident that curriculum and instruction remains dated although both students and teachers recognize the need to become current and forward thinking in our planning. Concrete and practical models for updating your school programs appear in her upcoming book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, with ASCD, to be released in January, 2010."
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The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked W... - 0 views

www.futureofeducation.com teachers lesson planning network discussion collaboration
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 04 Dec 09
     
    This community is devoted to providing an opportunity for those who care about education to share their voices and ideas with others. It's a place for thoughtful discussion on an incredibly important topic.
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Digiteen Global Project 2009 - 0 views

digiteen09-3.flatclassroomproject.org teachers technology lesson planning safety cybersafety
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Dec 09
     
    Welcome to the Digiteen 09-3, digital citizenship global project for September - December 2009. This is where schools and classrooms from around the world will discuss issues, research and take action to do with being online in the 21st century. The project also has a Digiteen Ning where students and teachers connect, interact, share multimedia and reflect on their experiences throughout the project.
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ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award - 0 views

www.ala.org/...bestwebsitestop25.cfm teachers technology lesson planning curriculum tools
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 20 Dec 09
     
    Lists diigo under organizing and managing
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The Innovative Educator: Don't be illTwitterate or aTextual - 0 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...illtwitterate-or-atextual.html teachers lesson planning technology twitter tutorial blog high school
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10
     
    Ideas for using Twitter with students
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Explore the world with Google Earth - butterscotch - 0 views

www.butterscotch.com/...re-The-World-With-Google-Earth google tutorial teachers students lesson planning technology
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  • Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10
     
    Multi-part series that gives a basic overview of Google Earth
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