Posted on August 21, 2008 by gdahlby
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93605988 is just fascinating to me. Those graphic security codes which are used to “prove” you are human and not a bot have always been annoying … especially ones I cannot read. In this post, Nell Greenfieldboyce shares a story about some fruitful nuances by having people read a section of a scanned work that automated processes have trouble discerning. Majority rules in deciding what the scan says. Very cool. (not related to ICT in schools, but still fascinating).
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by gdahlby
I was looking at some reviews of mini-laptops and ran across a great review set where a CTO reviewed some several mini-laptops for their district, but this person included a review of the same technology by teenagers in their district. What an ahah momment….the kids were very frank and had great comments from a potential end user point of veiw. Another late lesson learned. This reinforces my evolving impression that more student involvement in technology analysis and planning is more and more important for 21st century educational technology leaders. Dennis Harper is a decade a head of my thinking…I’ll try to catch up. http://www.genyes.org
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by gdahlby
Not much time for this post, but seems to me that with greater accpetance of open source and especially free versions that low cost laptops (mini-laptops) are coming in fast a furious. I wonder…fad, fashion or true trend. Will students and parents “settle” on this low cost device?
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by gdahlby
American Association of School Librarians (AASL) approved the development of a new program titled Learning 4 Life (L4L). The 3-5 year program will be implemented in fall 2008 to help gain attention for AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner and the guidelines for implementing the standards.
The goal is to gain implementation of the learning standards at the national level. The program allows learning standards to be customized for local and state conditions, as well as to reflect the multicultural populations of U.S. schools.
The Standards for the 21st-Century Learner program advocates the concept that school library media specialists play an important role in preparing students to compete in a global community.
L4L uses the number four to echo and reinforce the four standards:
1. Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge.
2. Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations and create new knowledge.
3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
4. Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
The learning standards are available online at http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards.
Very similar to ISTE NETS-S revised. (www.iste.org)
The need inservice for L4L for staff to refresh their own skills is higly likely. Big process.
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Posted on August 2, 2008 by gdahlby
What a great surprise this event was for me. I’m honored to join Arlene Bothwick, Tim Magner, Mila Fuller, and Kevin Jarret.
A little often unknown fact is that as Conference chair for the first ICUE (Iowa Computer Using Educators) and IASCD (Iowa Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) joint conferece in 1993, we hosted the first Making IT Happen award with Kathy Hurly, Pat Walkington and Deb DeVries coming to Des Moines to to award the first jacket to Dr. Ann Thompson, professor of curriculum and instruction at Iowa State University.
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