"The mission of School of One is to provide students with personalized, effective, and dynamic classroom instruction so that teachers have more time to focus on the quality of their instruction.
To achieve this mission, School of One re-imagines the traditional classroom model. Instead of one teacher and 25-30 students in a classroom, each student participates in multiple instructional modalities, including a combination of teacher-led instruction, one-on-one tutoring, independent learning, and work with virtual tutors.
To organize this type of learning, each student receives a unique daily schedule based on his or her academic strengths and needs. As a result, students within the same school or even the same classroom can receive profoundly different instruction as each student's schedule is tailored to the skills they need and the ways they best learn. Teachers acquire data about student achievement each day and then adapt their live instructional lessons accordingly.
By leveraging technology to play a more essential role in planning instruction, teachers have more time to focus on doing what they do best - delivering quality instruction and insuring that all students learn."
At ISTE 2010, CDW-G released findings from their recent study that found that just 8 percent of high school teachers said that technology is fully integrated into the classroom; and the technology that is available is primarily used by teachers and not students. As a result, 43 percent of students said they are not - or they are unsure if they are - prepared to use technology in higher education or the workforce. You can download the full report at this site.
For the third annual Summer of Content effort, Curriki is soliciting premium content for Grades 6-12 in science, technology, and math, and for content in ELL / ESL for all grades.
Do you have an instructional unit (or units) you're proud of that you'd like to publish and get paid for? Interested in earning money this summer to develop a new unit that will be shared with a global audience?
This year, the Summer of Content Awards will be granted to student-focused units which include support material for teachers. We are looking for activities, webquests, worksheets, quizzes, and games that will engage students and help make Curriki a destination for students as well as teachers.
Apply by July 9, 2010.
Dr Howie DiBlasi version 6 of the series. Answers to the question of "How To Change The World of Education. How To Empower Teachers. 20th century leadership. How to use Web 2 in Schools. The Flat World of Education. Globalization and The Information Age
Grades 6-12. In this BYOL session with Rod Hames, teachers learned how to involve, and support students in engaging and powerful thinking generated by a project featuring blogs, collaboration, mathematics, literacy, and competition.
Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.
"Learning Tools Smackdown ~ Teacher-librarian and technology educator practitioners will share their ideas relating to effective practice in use of 2.0 tools to deliver the mission that resonates well with ISTE's NETS*S."
A free five-day, multiple-language, multiple-time zone online collaborative conference on global education. Teacher, student, curricular, policy/leadership, and change tracks.
The mission of the HP Digital Assist program is to leverage the passion and interest that students have in technology, basketball and sports in general and demonstrate their understanding of key concepts. HP, NBA Cares and ISTE are partnering to bring the power of technology and professional basketball to middle school students by providing teachers with interactive and engaging technology opportunities.
Global SchoolNet's Projects Registry (PR) is the oldest (1995) and largest online clearinghouse for teacher-conducted global learning projects. The PR contains more than 3,000 annotated listings - and is searchable by date, age level, geographic location, collaboration type, technology tools or keyword. The PR is a central place for educators to find global partners and announce projects.
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