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Jen Sigrist

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Writing Re-Launched: Teachi... - 0 views

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writing iPads

shared by Jen Sigrist on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • few—if any—jobs these days for which employees produce lengthy handwritten reports
  • Digital writing assignments “match the real world” and give students experience composing “in a form people will actually read,” she says.
  • Another distinction between the two types of writing is that while traditional writing formats, such as journaling, are frequently used for private reflection, digital writing is almost always meant for an audience.
  • Jen Sigrist on 13 Apr 11
     
    Writing with digital tools - Why are schools in catch-up mode when it comes to how we ask kids to write?
Dominic Giegerich

After nearly a decade, laptops changed learning in Henrico | Richmond Times-Dispatch - 1 views

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shared by Dominic Giegerich on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "Our main focus is, how are we using these laptops?" he said. "Is it being used just like you use a textbook? Or are we doing what we consider 21st-century skills things with it, rather than just finding information, taking that information, synthesizing and creating something new? That is what we want."
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      Dominic Giegerich on 09 Sep 10
       
      Great Quote here
  • In an effort to establish a more accurate connection to achievement, the county is developing an internal assessment to measure the use of the technology with the students' ability to apply it to critical thinking and problem-solving and communicate what they are learning.
  • "It may or may not improve achievements as a measure by test scores, but it improves opportunities, it opens up possibilities and affords students new ways to learn."
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  • Last year, the county launched Henrico 21, an initiative that encourages teachers to create lesson plans and submit them to a judging panel with a small reward as a motivator. More than 600 teachers sent their lesson plans. The plans ranged from the STD project, to the creation of a digital Harlem Renaissance museum in a history class, to researching the genealogy of the students in their class by collecting data on their families through interviews, photo albums and research sites. "Good teaching is good teaching, and a laptop, you can argue, is just a tool to be used for teaching," Becker said. "But it is the most powerful tool we have at this point for education."
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