Yes, Curriculum and Instruction have been upgraded to the iPhone 6 Plus, while Assessment is still at a Nokia flip phone. Why is Assessment so antiquated in it’s ways and how do we overhaul it?
HOWEVER, none of this, for a moment, displaces the teacher. On the contrary, it amplifies teacher skills. It may also facilitate the ability for teachers to play to their strongest card:
We should not try to recreate what Salman Khan of the Khan Academy and others are doing so brilliantly, namely to meticulously build up entire curricula on video. No. TED is known for its ability to evoke curiosity, wonder, and mind-shifting insight. That should be our prime goal here. Short lessons that spark curiosity.
the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and refreshing notebooks every three to four years would be prohibitive
surveyed the 155 eighth-graders participating in the pilot, they learned something interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
Google Apps' productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access reading materials and other course content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to incorporate technology into their curriculum
Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
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Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
That’s not to say that tech for the sake of tech is a good idea on the classroom – it’s most certainly not. Instructional technology use should be driven by pedagogy and not the other way around.
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