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Session notes from "The Role of Interactive Whiteboards in a 1-to-1 Environment "

While polarized views of reading methodologies, filtering, DRM, Open Source, copyright/copyleft, constructivism, e- books, computer labs, fixed schedules, Mac/PC/Linux, and the One Laptop Per Child project all make for entertaining reading and a raised blood pressure, radical stances rarely create educational change or impact educational institutions enough to change kids' chances of success. This presentation by Doug Johnson suggests 10 principles to follow from the Radical Center of Education that will actually result in positive change in education.You can find his ISTE session notes here.

Best practices for Internet literacy and critical thinking with students. David Warlick's notes on Howard Rheingold's session. Also visit Howard Rheingold's Critical Thinking wiki to view his video on "Crap Detection" and digital literacies at http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/

"Mike - "Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets -- if you teach them how to analyze data - they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets." Cyndi - "Get rid of the network nazi's -- people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions." (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.) Mike- Leadership is everything - 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen"

With an understanding of spatial thinking, educators can learn to use geographic tools to develop research, writing, and presentation in the classroom. Requires Google Earth and ESRI ArcExplorer.

Jeff Utech's presentation links, done in Google Notebook.