I had a great time at the Teacherscape.com Leadership Institute. One of the quick think abouts that was shared was in hiring new teachers. The speaker reminded us that few if any new teachers are really great teachers their first year or two. There is too much to learn that even the best of intern [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
Working on book/article themes and continuing conversations from NECC2009 conference. & thinking on COSN 2010 and ISTE 2010 submissions
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fgdahlby.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F07%2F06%2Fnext-steps-after-necc09%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘next+steps+after+NECC09′;
addthis_pub = ”;
Filed under: Technology and Education, Thought Log | No Comments »
Key principles (resources)
NSCD: http://www.nsdc.org/standards
Reviewing the Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2007033
Goals 2000: www.ed.gov/G2K/bridge.html
Summary points:
High-quality professional development leads teachers to gain and refine knowledge of both content and pedagogy.
High-quality professional development reflects best practices in teaching and learning, helping adults with varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness learn to work together and [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
Watching the news cover the SC girl’s return to her school and point out less than desireable conditions makes me think he should champion a day where business and legislators visit every school building in they gather workers from or that they represent. Wonder if that would begin a revolution against 19th and early 20th [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
January 24th and I was not able to swing a f2f trip to Educon. I am pretty bummed out, so I will catch what I can via the streams and posts. It appears to be a small cozy conference. I think Chris thought about 4-500 for their facility, the Science Leadership Academy [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
From the Oregon Computing Teacher, to The Computing Teacher, to International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE, Dr. David Morsund has been not only a contributer and collaborator, he has also been a founding father. His writings can give later generations to educational technology an ability to look through the rabbit hole of the past. [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23180
I had written to listservs just last month wondering if anyone had an open-source solution to breaking the tie of auto response systems way from the hardware and software. In this article, while not open-source, it is software/web solution that allows any web enabled device to participate in these instant response type of instructional activity. [...]
Filed under: Technology and Education | No Comments »
