This will help me be a better teacher because the videos found on this link will help me learn by listening to educators from very prestigious Universities. I am sure that any intellectual question I have, can be answered on this link...
Good article. I had spent some time working as volunteer at a Title 1 school and they had iPads in most of the classes. I thought it was interesting that in a school that has kids from low income families that a lot of the schoolwork was done with technology, considering that many of them have the same struggles as mentioned in this article.
The results are published in an annual report, available on our Web site.
Quality is not just how many people graduate, but what those graduates know.
Quality is also related to how long it takes, and how much it costs, to deliver that learning
At Western Governors, for example, the average time to graduation with a bachelor's degree is 30 months, and the university is self-sustaining on tuition of $5,800 a year for nearly all of our programs.
Is the U.S. behind other countries in terms of test scores? This author argues no, and he has some good points, but I think he also misrepresents the truth that we should be better than we are.
Kerpoof was a favorite of mine for teaching kids basic multimedia production in elementary education. It's closing down now, but here are some alternatives.
Kerpoof was a favorite of mine for teaching kids basic multimedia production in elementary education. It's closing down now, but here are some alternatives.
It’s worth noting that most of the focus of the survey seemed to be on using pre-packaged games in the classroom, rather than making games or experimenting with other methods of play, and the survey is highly biased towards the digital–which is of course not inherently any more valuable for learning than physical games.