Category: schoolreform
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Podcast247: Transformative Project Based Learning in a 1:1 Laptop Initiative: 10 Years of Lessons and Best Practices at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii
This podcast is a recording of a conversation on December 5, 2007 with Judy Beaver, director of instructional technology at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, about their 1:1 laptop learning initiative. Judy discusses how she utilized research findings from Dr. Robert Marzano’s noted book “Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement”…
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I officially claim this title for my first book – YET unwritten!
I’m not sure I can do this, and guess this is not likely legally binding in any way, but I would like to none-the-less formally “claim” a title for a book I want to write in the not too distant future. (Specifically, at whatever point I regain full control of my own intellectual property.) The…
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Here for the learning revolution
I’m a few days late getting to Jon Becker post’s “Reflections of a new-ish blogger,” but in our digital world of asynchronously empowered conversations, I don’t think that is a bad thing. I read David Warlick’s post “10 Ways to Keep your PLN from Running Amok!” several weeks ago, and remember thinking to myself, “Boy…
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Podcast243: Solutions for High School Reform Efforts in the United States (Part 1)
This podcast is a response to Alan Bersin’s April 5, 2006 lecture at Stanford University titled “Reinventing the American High School: Back to the Future?” Alan Bersin was a former Secretary of Education for the state of California, and a former superintendent of San Diego Schools in California. This presentation is available from Stanford on…
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VLE versus MLE
Does your school provide a VLE or a MLE for students? Do you know the difference? Before reading part of the current WikiPedia article for “Virtual learning environment” I didn’t. According to the article: A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a software system designed to support teaching and learning in an educational setting, as distinct…
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Time to get on the mobile learning train!
Vanderbilt University’s iPhone content portal is an amazing information resource and reveals that the future of mobile learning is HERE for colleges and universities with leaders who understand the implications of and possibilities for convergence in higher education. (Thanks to Karen Montgomery for sharing this link!) Choices on the website include information about Admissions, Colleges…
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Blogs, Wikis, District Polices, Walled Gardens and the Open Web
While I am an outspoken advocate for the constructive uses of blogs, wikis, podcasts, cell phones, and other types of read/write web services and digital technologies to support learning both inside and outside the classroom, it is also VERY important for teachers to understand and respect local school board policies which may exist regarding these…
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Sorry honey, you can’t believe everything you read in your printed science textbook
NOTE: PLEASE SEE THE DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. I STAND CORRECTED, TECHNICALLY SPEAKING A NEEDLE WHICH HAS BEEN “MAGNETIZED” IS A MAGNET. I HADN’T REALIZED THIS PREVIOUSLY, SO THIS IS A BENEFIT OF MAKING YOUR THINKING TRANSPARENT… ALTHOUGH I FEEL SHEEPISHLY IGNORANT FOR NOT KNOWING THIS AS AN ADULT. THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE…
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A vision of the mobile, connected college experience – Today in Abilene, Texas
About a month ago I heard about the newly announced iPhone higher education mobility project at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene, Texas. The ACU website “Mobile Learning and the Connected Campus” includes a link to the fifteen and a half minute movie “Connected,” which is a vision of how iPhones are being deployed today at…
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Raising expectations for learning and assessment
In his article “Teaching To A Test Worth Teaching To In College And High School” Dr. Richard H. Hersh makes the case that in our era of high-stakes testing, in many schools expectations for student learning have been LOWERED to a lowest common denominator. Rather than expecting students to master not only content area knowledge…