EduTechK12November

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ASCD Inservice: Looking Beyond the "Answer"

"As you are watching, ask yourself: What changed by using, in this case, the iPad and ShowMe app? Could the same [learning] have been accomplished by keeping students' illustrations analog? Was there differentiation potential? Can this type of "activity" be used as an assessment to replace/upgrade traditional assessment? Are the movie clips potential artifacts for digital portfolios? Could these movie clips be part of a variety of student work at a parent-teacher conference? Was any learning amplified by placing it on the classroom blog to share with families? What skills were practiced? What literacies were supported? Was it worth the extra time investment, the learning curve?"

""This would create an environment where students could really work together," she said. "It would let me change the dynamic and bring that compassion back into the classroom.""

"Whether you subscribe to the device as a consumption, creation or discovery tool, the technology opens the eyes of educators when given time to investigate." The challenge of pedagogy demands contact time between staff, students and those of us charged with coordinating. A staff and student blog will now be supported by a staff twitter account to encourage daily feedback/debate as well as the built in googleforms and analysis. Every question/suggestion and discussion is valid because of the diversity of subjects, staff and students.

Alan November #tech_k12 Leadership Workshop Collaborative Notes: http://tinyurl.com/techK12 Diigo Group: http://groups.diigo.com/group/tech_k12_november

24.3 Why cognitive tools? The history of educational communications and technology includes numerous examples :of failed innovations and unfulfilled promises. Cognitive tools could become yet another casualty in the difficult struggle to improve teaching and learning unless it has a strong foundation of theory and practical principles to support it.

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