"Based on our interpretation of the current state law, the public interest demands those e-mails be released."
Bubolz said in July he made the request to see if the teachers were doing their job "... the way it's supposed to be done."
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Teacher e-mails made public - 0 views
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"People will know this decision is out there," Jonen said. "The effect will be any public employee that does a personal e-mail at work is subject to having that released."
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"There's no misconduct at all; they don't want the public to feel they were misusing resources," she said. "These are e-mails they wrote to their friends, spouse or kids. It's a little unsettling they will be for public view."
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Teacher emails released to "make sure they're doing their jobs."
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Another great reason to be in an independent school.
Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle a... - 0 views
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I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
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In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
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Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
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Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
Hybrid Schools for iGeneration: Harvard Education Letter - 3 views
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For the next 55 minutes, students work independently at their computers, learning core subjects or electives through online curricula aligned to Arizona’s state standards. They put on headphones or twist iPod ear buds into their ears, because the online programs are interactive and multimodal—comprised of audio, video vignettes, Flash animation, quizzes, and games. Paraprofessionals called “assistant coaches” walk through the center to make sure kids are doing their work, fix computer glitches, help with academic questions, and—most important, administrators say—check in emotionally with the students, talking with them about anything at home or at school that might be affecting their learning.
danah boyd | apophenia » when teachers and students connect outside school - 1 views
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All too often, the truly troubled kids that I meet have no adults that they can turn to for support.
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As a society, we desperately need non-custodial adults who teens can turn to for advice. Adults who can help guide youth without playing their parents
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teachers should NEVER ask a student to be their Friend on Facebook/MySpace but should accept Friend requests and proceed to interact in the same way as would be appropriate if the student approached the teacher after school.
Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.
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