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Steve Henderson

Education Week: Competency-Based Schools Embrace Digital Learning - 3 views

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badge technology learning

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  • Steve Henderson on 13 Feb 13
     
    Competency Based Learning is Badge Learning. A district in California is putting it into practice.
Irina Uk

School Districts of Innovation - Public Engagement & Ed Reform - Education Week - 0 views

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'student innovators' district

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  • Irina Uk on 14 Dec 12
     
    This article is not about emerging tech directly. However, it discusses how there is an initiative to increase teaching students to be innovators consistent with 21st century learning. When I read this, I thought about all the ways that technology could facilitate this.
Angela Nelson

Nationally Ranked Texas School District Achieves More for Less with Xirrus Wireless Arr... - 1 views

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  • Angela Nelson on 10 Oct 12
     
    BYOD is an interesting solution, but what is it doing to the school's limited bandwidth?
Adrian Melia

10 Innovative Schools Allowing Smartphones in the Classroom » Online College ... - 1 views

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teaching technology smartphones

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  • Adrian Melia on 30 Sep 12
     
    Innovative school districts that are using smartphones in the classrooms.
Laura Johnson

Falcon School District Implements iPad Program - 0 views

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edtech iPad HGSET561

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  • Laura Johnson on 07 Nov 12
     
    iPad deployment program
Janet Dykstra

Competency-Based Schools Embrace Digital Learning - 1 views

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technology t561 Education Learning

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  • Janet Dykstra on 22 Oct 12
     
    Features Tom Rooney sees competency-based education-supported by digital learning tools-as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District in California, Rooney set in motion this school year a plan to move to a system in which students progress not on the basis of their age or a set school calendar, but by demonstrating proficiency on learning objectives.
Irina Uk

Katy ISD Parents Site - 0 views

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EDC Policy mobile private K12

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  • Irina Uk on 13 Sep 12
     
    This is the parents link to the Katy Independent School District Site. There is a link from this page to a PDF containing guidelines for mobile technology usage at Katy.
Irina Uk

Technology & Information Services / BYOT - 0 views

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EDC mobile policy BYOD

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  • Irina Uk on 13 Sep 12
     
    This is a link to the Forsyth County Schools. It provides an overview of the BYOD program at Forsyth. There are other links to technology initiatives and implementation in the District.
Maung Nyeu

Rewards of Role Reversal: Teachers Learn, Students Teach | MindShift - 2 views

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Emerging Technology technology rewards education learning t561 students

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  • Maung Nyeu on 02 Dec 11
     
    A school where teachers learn and student teach - a role reversal. The district turns to an under-utilized but incredibly valuable resource - its students.
Chris McEnroe

Freetown school district banking on technology - Fall River, MA - The Herald News - 2 views

www.heraldnews.com/...district-banking-on-technology

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  • Chris McEnroe on 18 Dec 11
     
    A couple months back Prof. Dede said a change in education was necessary because the status quo was facing collapse. We're see these kinds of decisions all over the country in the past few weeks. I wonder if we're seeing the change.
Jaclyn Ruszala

1-to-1 Computing: Turning Around School Technology - 6 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 07 Dec 11
     
    This article explains why the district chose laptops over tablet and how the community is helping to turn the schools around.
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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very throrough article.If replaceing computers every 4 years and maintaining them is only 4% of the budget, I wonder what all the resistence is to schools maintaining computers. Is 4% still too much? Is 4% specific to this Alabama district? Also, I felt individualized instruction for foreign language would be the best way to transition a school towards networked individualized learning in a school environment. It's silly that everyone in elementary schools has to take the same language simply because there is only one foreign language teacher. Instead of a Spanish teacher you would need to hire multi-lingual specialists who are able to monitor langauge acquisition. Cool future!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    "The teachers that were involved said that if every kid had their own computer, we could do amazing things". It would be interesting to know if the teachers presented some concrete ideas of 'amazing things'. It would also be interesting to know whether they have a bank of spare laptops to loan to the students while the defective ones are getting fixed. I have a feeling that in the not-so-distant future the choice between a tablet and a computer may become a moot point. The hardware that powers a MacBook Air and iPad is very similar. We have laptops that double as tablets and tablets that are paired with a keyboard to be used as a laptop. Eventually these two will merge.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    Great overview of the issues -- I agree with Kasthuri -- I think the issue will become moot
Chris McEnroe

How to Rescue Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • No Child Left Behind also let states use statistical gimmicks to report performance
  • ” federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertisin
  • To shed light on equity and cost-effectiveness, states should be required to report school- and district-level spending; the resources students receive should be disclosed, not only their achievement.
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  • efforts to reduce inequities have too often led to onerous and counterproductive micromanagement.
  • it comes to brain science, language acquisition or the impact of computer-assisted tutoring, federal financing for reliable research is essential. 
  • , competitive federal grants that support innovation while providing political cover for school boards, union leaders and others to throw off anachronistic routines.
  • , dictates from Congress turn into gobbledygook as they travel from the Education Department to state education agencies and then to local school districts
  • it’s not surprising that well-intentioned demands for “bold” federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring. They stifle problem-solving, encourage bureaucratic blame avoidance and often do more harm than good.
  • Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11
     
    The headline promises more than the article delivers. It mainly identifies the limited effectiveness that the federal government can have. There are no specific "how to's" here and no mention of technology whatsoever, perhaps because that would be too specific a focus for the scope of the article. These are prominent figures in a prominent publication having a conversation that could have taken place in 1980. How do we change that? The absence of real civic engagement on issues about education is the missing link in education reform. I wonder if we can organize public discourse on the internet more effectively to have formal impact on civic activism and administration.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

District-created app improves the home-school connection - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ves-the-home-school-connection

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 12 Nov 11
     
    Technology in the classroom --> only works with parental participation. This is an angle that has not been covered much in our class. But, my experience tells me it is more important than whether technology helps pedagogy.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Establishing a Technological Culture - 2 views

www.districtadministration.com/...blishing-technological-culture

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 09 Nov 11
     
    This is an example of a school district that has jumped off the cliff of traditional into the hand of technological. With a strong plan, this district went from considering sustainability to establishing long term scalability. ENJOY.
Maung Nyeu

ePals Enables SchoolSafe Access to Third-Party Applications Starting with Microsoft Off... - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ffice-web-apps-and-google-docs

technology education

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  • Maung Nyeu on 13 Nov 11
     
    LearningSpace, a new tool from ePals that is also COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant, provides K-12 appropriate selective access to the applications within a protected, customizable social learning environment. Schools and districts can customize the rules and policies that determine which groups, classes and projects have access to third-party applications.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - (It's Not Just About the Laptops) - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ct-a-laptop-success-story.html

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 13 Feb 12
     
    Some very useful lessons to learn fro Mooresville. Looks like the broader ecosystem (such as cheper access to broadband internet) has been thought through rather than just dropping a laptop into the classroom.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 13 Feb 12
     
    Interesting comment from one of the parents, attesting to how technology can be out to good use in education - "My son, just yesterday, completed a mutlimedia project about the Sahara desert working together with another student. They created a video imagining them driving a vehicle through the desert while reciting facts about the desert and incorporating pictures and graphics about what they were describing. It was as if they were taking me on a virtual tour of the desert. This is the way we communicate now. What we learn is only as important as how we are able to communicate it to make things happen."
Maung Nyeu

BHS uses Web as learning tool - 0 views

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Emerging Technology online learning technology education learning t561

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  • Maung Nyeu on 20 Nov 11
     
    A Wisconsin school offer online courses as part of blended learning to compete with other districts' internet schools for local students.
Maung Nyeu

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/22/3281924/high-tech-tools-click-for-learning.html - 2 views

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Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 24 Nov 11
     
    Karen Cator, director of education technology with the U.S. Department of Education touts keystroke-sensitive algorithms are capable of guiding students for learning, accessible to teachers, parents and the students. "Education technology, as in the gaming world, has the ability to assess performance every step of the way, comparing students to classmates across schools, districts, states and the world, with immediate feedback and direction. No final exam necessary."
Cole Shaw

NYC School Districts allow texting - 0 views

www.edtechmagazine.com/...-your-district-embracing-trend

cell phones classroom texting

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  • Cole Shaw on 20 Sep 12
     
    Although, funny enough, it's not texting for learning, but rather they are communicating information to parents, to keep them engaged and involved. I did think the part about the NH school allowing cell phone use to reduce distractions and allow teachers to focus on teaching instead of enforcement was also interesting. Technology-bans were affecting their effectiveness!
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