It was no longer about the hardware. It was about the network. Which brings us to the present: Mobile Cloud Computing. The new paradigm is about your information, your friends' information, the information of strangers, and how these informations all coalesce in the Cloud. The future is now. And despite the fact his job might be on the line, don't let your old school IT guy tell you otherwise.
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TeachPaperless: Top Eleven Things All Teachers Must Know About Technology (or: I promis... - 0 views
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The Digital Divide is the result of a failure of imagination and the poor -- indeed practically criminal -- allocation of resources.
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Do 70% of your students arrive everyday with cell phones and yet your colleagues still say technology is out of your reach? It's time to rethink.
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The Board members explained to the press that the program wasn’t helping the Lynnfield schools raise their "standards"–that is, their scores on the new tough state tests. Sometimes equity and excellence just don’t mix well. So sorry
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The stories of Chicago and Lynnfield capture a dark side of the "standards-based reform" movement in American education: the politically popular movement to devise national or state-mandated standards for what all kids should know, and high-stakes tests and sanctions to make sure they all know it. The stories show how the appeal to standards can mask and make way for other agendas: punishing kids, privatizing public education, giving up on equity.
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Supporting Student Thinking Skills | Quisitivity.org - 0 views
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Focus on the process before they start Monitor their reasoning as they are working Reflect back and explain to someone else what they were thinking
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Think-Alouds Leveled problems Graphic organizers (e.g. T-chart) Using “magic words” that students can use which require explanation of reasoning Asking prompt questions (such as those in yesterday’s post) Give part of the solution, then have students complete it Give the answer, students write the solution Give the explanation, students write the solution Give the solution, students write the explanation Checklists or mnemonics to aid recall of processes Journals to practice informal writing about problem solving Vocabulary games to build language skills and improve communication about reasoning Allow students to rewrite weak explanations to improve them Show sample student papers that demonstrate good skills Teach students to score responses using a rubric Have students score their own work or a partner’s work Trade papers with another class and have students score
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