Despite those negative comments, a switch from print to electronics is a necessary step. Textbooks have become a major financial sinkhole in education.
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Digital Learning Day: A Random Act of Kindness
February 1st, 2012
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Good Education Needs a Quality Environment
January 31st, 2012
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While great teachers, students and administrators can overcome the worst of conditions to create academic success, there is little question that outdated educational facilities can make a difficult task, educating adolescents, downright daunting.
Effective Educational Technology Requires Effective Implementation
January 19th, 2012
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In a recent post Mel Riddile intertwined two critical issues facing schools in 2012—the need to appropriately utilize cutting edge technology and the negative impact of failing to renovate schools on a regular basis. The following piece will discuss possible impediments to utilizing educational technology in a school and how to avoid them. In a [...]
Tech Reality Check
January 10th, 2012
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School reform leaders say that they want the best school leaders and teachers working with the neediest students.
School Technology: Still Dabbling Around the Edges
September 12th, 2011
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Technology and diets have one thing in common. Neither works unless you work them, and, when it comes to school technology, for the most part, we educators are more like dabblers than implementers. In a recent New York Times article, Matt Richtel put it bluntly. “Schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut [...]
PLN: Your Customized Learning Plan
September 8th, 2011
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Create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) by tapping into the collective intelligence of hundreds or even thousands of your fellow educators through Twitter and other technologies. Find out how to establish a PLN that’s made up of the right people to guide your learning and to whom you contribute your knowledge and expertise. (Read [...]
Brute Force Filtering: Step Up and End It
August 5th, 2011
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Background: Back in 1995, I was teaching an Internet course for our teachers. When I look at the syllabus for that course, I have a good laugh. Sad to say, we could do things in 1995 that would be difficult to pull off today. Yes, we were using ftp and a beta version of Netscape, [...]
School Tech: From “What” to “How”
July 13th, 2011
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"No one is arguing we shouldn’t use technology in education anymore. The question is how."–Chris Lehmann, ISTE 2011 Education Week reports that data released by Project Tomorrow, the Software and Information Industry Association, and technology company CDW-G reveals a "perception gap" or "disconnect" between educators and students and between school-based staff and district staff. Better [...]
Survey: 50% increase in use of technology by teachers
May 13th, 2011
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Are we in the midst of a “major shift in educator’s opinion regarding technology as an education tool?” Classroom Use Increases According to a new survey of 294,399 K-12 students, 42,267 parents, 35,525 teachers, 2,125 librarians, 3,578 school or district administrators, and 1,391 technology leaders, “the number of educators incorporating technology such as podcasts and [...]
