Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System - Joel Rose - Busi... - 0 views
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Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
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our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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Apple iPad 2 family Review - PCWorld - 0 views
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competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that's faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago--all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple's competitors to match.
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company is offering 18 different versions of the iPad 2
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original iPad came in six different variations
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Navigating a "No Zero" Policy - the becoming radical - 0 views
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Schools, teachers, parents, and students must set aside grading as a system of rewards and punishments, and begin to see grading as a subset of assessment, which must be used as a system of feedback and student revision to support student learning.
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My alternative to the zero is that students must complete fully all work assigned or no credit can be assigned for the course; this approach addresses the problems with both assigning zeroes and simply passing students who do not complete the work.
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