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How to Build a Successful School Technology Program | Jason Saltmarsh - 3 views

  • You can surmise a lot about a school's technology program based on how often the curriculum director and technology director have lunch together.
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    Some interesting similarities between points made in this article and our plan. Thoughts?
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6 Tips for Using QR Codes at School | graphite Blog - 2 views

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    New ideas! 6 creative ways to extend lessons beyond the classroom using #QR codes: http://t.co/K4pKbk8IRu http://t.co/YxL7Y5NMZ2
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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:New Literacies and the Common Core - 0 views

  • making sure that students are able to navigate new ways of reading and writing.
  • : the ability to read texts closely—to be text detectives. As students enter a world in which they will do much of their reading and writing on a screen, it makes sense to start by looking at nonprint texts, such as in the genres of video, music, and visual art.
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      This will also help our kids to become more critical consumers of information. They'll know that it's important to focus on the entire message...not just the "words". They'll understand how advertisers and others can use sounds, images, lighting, etc. to influence the emotions of the consumer.
  • Although standardized assessments continue to be based on individual work, we know that our students will, with rare exceptions, be expected to work collaboratively on projects after they graduate. And those projects will frequently involve shaping and writing texts with others.
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  • Once students are able to perceive and analyze the details evident in many different kinds of texts, we are moving toward the goal of close reading, no matter what kind of text they read.
  • teachers need to give students time and opportunity to write together.
  • More powerful than a room full of gadgets is a teacher who has a deep understanding of what the new forms of reading and writing entail.
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