Category: schoolreform
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Powerful and Free Tools from the Cloud by Rushton Hurley
These are my notes from Rushton Hurley‘s afternoon featured session on “Powerful and Free Tools from the Cloud” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All session resources are on Rushton’s Google Site. Rushton is @rushtonh on Twitter and the…
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The Fisch Flip in Michigan: Dale Eizenga on flipping traditional lecture and homework routines
Colorado teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams were some of the first educators I learned about who are leveraging the power of podcasting, screencasting, and video sharing to “flip” the traditional model of lecture in class and homework at home which predominates in many schools today. In his article “Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new…
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Smartphone activations, iPad Sales and Vision for Transformed Learning
Consider these statistics shared by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday: But what about Google? Last week, Eric Schmidt reiterated that they are activating 200,000 Android devices per day, and have around 90,000 apps in their app store. For comparison, Apple has activated around 275,000 iOS devices per day on average for the past 30…
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K-20 Innovative Learning Institute Nov 4th in Norman, Oklahoma
You’re invited to join Alan November and a BUNCH of other great educators in Norman, Oklahoma, on Thursday, November 4, 2010, for the OU K-20 Center‘s Innovative Learning Institute. This conference has an outstanding 13 year history, and was previously called the “Winter Institute.” This year I’m hoping we WON’T have bad winter weather, since…
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Waiting For Superman: A Good Film to Provoke Conversations We Need
Since I was already in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex to teach my “Computers in Classroom” course at UNT today and had a free evening, I drove about 45 minutes to a wonderful independent movie theater in Plano, Texas, and watched the movie, “Waiting for Superman.” I’ve read quite a few articles and blog posts in…
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High Stakes Tests do NOT encourage a 21st Century Skill Focus
Bill Ferriter is 100% on target with his recent post, “Are We REALLY Preparing Kids for the Global Economy?” After reading the recent Washington Post manifesto on school reform by Rhee and other misguided leaders, Bill notes with insight: Success in tomorrow’s knowledge-based world depends on innovative thinking and collaboration. It depends on finding connections…
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Marketing Flyer for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference #k12online10
A one page PDF marketing flyer for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference is available. Please share this far and wide! While we don’t want to waste trees and “being digital” is great, it can also be helpful to post printed versions of this on your library bulletin board, in the teachers’ lounge, and in other…
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Podcast361: Be Like Google (as a school community)
This podcast is a recording of Cathy Kyle and Susan Droke’s presentation, “Be Like Google” at the 1 Oct 2010 Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence’s fall conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The official session description was: As the economy began to slow, Google continued to post positive quarterly earnings. The New York Times headline in 2008…
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Podcast358: Lessons Learned Ustreaming EVERY Conference Presentation (and more) with Clif Mims
This podcast is a recording with Dr. Clif Mims, a professor at the University of Memphis and the Executive Director of The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence in Memphis, Tennessee. On September 30th and October 1, 2010, The Martin Institute hosted it’s first education conference, featuring two keynotes and 36 breakout sessions for area educators.…
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NCLB High Stakes Testing is Counterproductive and Bad for our Nation
I totally agree with Monte Neill. The choice, however, was never between do nothing or focus on high-stakes testing [to improve educational outcomes for high poverty students.] Better options have always existed. But these have been under-financed, not supported by the most visible and wealthy sectors in society. They also are more complex, not simplistic…