Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
"Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning." - By MATT RICHTEL
Published: November 21, 2010 at NYTimes.com
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Starfall.com, http://www.starfall.com
An incredible, free site dedicated to helping all children learn to read. Interactive stories and print and writing books to go along with them are high quality and engaging.
Reading for Meaning, http://reading.tomsnyder.com/readingformeaning/index.cfm
An Internet subscription service to improve student reading comprehension skills that targets skills often covered on standardized ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
A Web 2.0 Slam
View more presentations from Nitin Parmar.
This is a great overview of Web 2.0 tools and concepts applied to education.
Posted in Bookmarks, Creative Commons, Digital Life, Education, Flickr, Podcasting, Presentation, RSS, SlideShare, SlideShow, Social Bookmarks, Social Network, Tags, Teaching 2.0, Technology, Video, VoiceThread, Web 2.0, Wiki, WordPress | No Comments »
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Dallas McPheeters shares his unique and very important perspective on this topic.
The struggle within modern society regarding the adoption of new technologies has been framed as a dichotomy between those who oppose its tendency to redefine culture and those who embrace it. However a new paradigm has emerged among the ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has released its annual National Trends Report, revealing new data on the power of technology to increase student achievement and describing the need to equip American children and teachers with the knowledge and technological proficiency necessary to make America a leader within the ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Great article addressing technology adoption, management and innovation for education in the March 2009 edition of Tech and Learning
Now that digital technology is an integral part of many of our classrooms, we have a new challenge: How can we manage this essential technology? How can we maximize the school district’s ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
China 2005 Photos
3500 pictures I took when I visited China for three weeks with 25 other teachers. Pacific Lutheran University sponsored this cultural exploration trip. We toured from Beijing to Xi'an then to Chengdu, floated down the Yangze river for three days and finally ended in Shanghai. While traveling we ...
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