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Increasing Educational Productivity: Innovative Approaches & Best Practices | ED.gov Blog - 0 views

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Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • The policy should be, "No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes."
  • reflect a considered school policy and not simply be up to each individual teacher to carry out according to his or own theory of student learning
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Google's 80/20 Principle Adopted at New Jersey School - 1 views

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  • This simple policy change enables what's been called the 80/20 principle, a theory practiced by Google that employees who spend 20 percent of their time on company-related projects that interest them will work better.
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  • Your policies should target underlying substantive behaviors, not the mediums in which those behaviors occur.
Phil Taylor

10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We've Learned From Them So Far) - Online Univer... - 0 views

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  • 10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We’ve Learned From Them So Far)
  • What can Holy Trinity teach us? That when it comes to BYOD, it pays not to be overly strict with how the devices can be used in the class, as greater freedom allows teachers to work with students to develop the best uses for technology for their subject matter and teaching style.
  • BYOD requires much more than just changing tech policies and can sometimes mean overhauling the curriculum and spending money training teachers, though it does help students create a more personal and memorable learning experience.
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  • At Mankato, the BYOD program relies heavily on Google Docs and other tools that aren’t platform specific and that serve information to any Internet-accessible device, which points to one of the biggest problems with BYOD: managing a variety of different tech platforms
  • Students can only use devices during times that are approved by teachers and cannot use class time to troubleshoot tech problems.
  • The school also built a virtual desktop system which can be accessed through any device students or teachers bring into school
  • stop trying to battle cell phone use at school and instead decided to integrate the phones into lesson plans for eighth-graders and high school students.
  • BYOD at KISD demonstrates that while technology can be a distraction, it can also be an amazing learning tool that can not only interest students but also help them to become higher achievers.
  • school district encourages students to take the lead, inviting them to make videos that demonstrate acceptable and unacceptable use of personal phones and computers.
Phil Taylor

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  • he Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives. We take no positions on policy issues related to the internet or other communications technologies. We do not endorse technologies, industry sectors, companies, nonprofit organizations, or individuals.
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Teaching the Facebook generation - 0 views

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  • The ban also fails, they say, to take into account the role social networking has had in real-world events - most recently the civil uprising in Egypt - and dismisses some of the rich and meaningful ways students use it, including to display grief and to rally for causes.
  • ''Ineffective policy is to ban use; prohibition has never worked,'' he says. ''We want to ensure that each student's electronic footprint is one they are proud of. We do not want to become a society where inappropriate social relations become endemic.
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