Google Notebooks changing the way Astoria High students learn.
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All computing on the notebooks is done on the Internet. Documents, applications and settings are stored on "clouds," and can be accessed from any Chrome Notebook.
"You can't download anything, so you will never have a virus," Scott Holmstedt Astoria High School technology director. "And every time I open it up, it will be as fast as the first time I opened it up."
Jeffco has one of the most successful and nationally recognized online schools: Jeffco's 21st Century Virtual Academy. This article highlights the benefits of online learning for certain students, especially GT.
10 tips for using social media in the classroomTeachers should use social media in classroom lessons, and banning such tools will stifle learning and lead students to question teachers' relevance, university English professor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. Finley provides 10 guidelines for incorporating social media tools in the classroom. He offers several resources and suggests that teachers: create social media rules that are directive, but unrestricted; draw a distinction between academic and informal writing; and promote constructive online discussions. Edutopia.org/Todd Finley's blog
advice about wikis, especially in the face of his university’s (inevitable) suspicion about anything that is not authorised, locked-down, served from the campus and generally (IMO) unusable for agile teaching and learning.
The yearly Horizon Report documents key trends in technology that have an impact on education. Last year, it highlighted Cloud-based computing and Collaborative environments as the most immediate trends. This year it focuses on Electronic Books and Mobile Devices.
good geeky reading!