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The article, Highlights for High Schools: How to Bring MIT Curriculum to Your classroom: //www.edutopia.org/MIT-curriculum-high-school, has exciting ideas for use of MIT curriculum in the high school classroom. There are courses, video demonstrations, and AP test prep resources available to students and teachers. What a neat way to expand my curriculum and help kids see beyond my classroom. I will keep searching to see if there are additional universities with this type of resource.
ABP
article question posed are schools vocational school. A View by author that all schools are, can, should be preparing students for work world and how the use of digital technology can enhance what teachers are doing in the classroom to prepare them for future
I read an article about Skyping written by Jim Moulton who is in India helping India integrate technology into it's public school system. I thought the article was enlightening because it introduced me to what skyping was and again hammered home the reality that technology is being integrated everywhere in education.-Gordon Liddy
Owen Edwards' article "High Tech Connections Lead to Face-to-Face Disconnections" articulates many of the same concerns we have raised in this seminar. As our students become increasingly plugged-in and virtual, they are correspondingly less present in the here-and-now. There are some good examples of the extremes, including a state university prof who teaches a geography course in Second Life. The concept of imagined landscape is well illustrated by his exercise, but the classroom interaction that a university affords is too valuable to sacrifice. The author's conclusion, not surprisingly, is that we need to strike a balance. Your own use of "screens down" is a good example. There's not much new in the article, but it is an interesting reaffirmation of what you've been saying about integration with a purpose.
http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008
I liked this article because it helped identify the cultural differences between the prior generation of learners and the current generation of learners. It's about understanding the mentality of students today, and the culture in which they are learning, growing and living.
How Older Kids Can Improve Their Writing Skills
I found the article interesting and informative. It provided good strategies and ideas for helping older students become better at their basic writing skills. It also provided useful steps parents can take in providing support and encouragement to their kids.
Bill Berger
It is hard to monitor student cell phone use when teaching. Only in certain circumstances should use of a cell phone be allowed. In my opinion, cell phones need to be turned off and kept out of sight during instructional time.
Julie
The article on Skype... got me thinking. It was about accessing the web for person to person phone communications for free! I am pretty sure that I can use this, my students can use this for my project related to researching a global issue.
By searching the site I found a link to digg.com which is a warehouse (of sorts) for recent news topics. They do not formulate information they just house it. Kind of cool. I love Skype and had already thought about trying to use this in our district. Especially since some of our kids live so far away from each other, this might be the new method for doing group work from home.
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