schools and tech: episode #30: College Admission Season Part 1
News of the Week:
1) Thomas Friedman’s “Teaching For America” Op-Ed piece in Sunday’s NYT
Honoring teachers as professionals, preparing & compensating them accordingly; role of parents - The more we demand from teachers the more we have to demand from students and parents.
2) Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction NYTimes Magazine
“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
Allison Miller, 14, sends and receives 27,000 texts in a month, her fingers clicking at a blistering pace as she carries on as many as seven text conversations at a time. She texts between classes, at the moment soccer practice ends, while being driven to and from school
“The headline is: bring back boredom,” added Dr. Rich, who last month gave a speech to the American Academy of Pediatrics entitled, “Finding Huck Finn: Reclaiming Childhood from the River of Electronic Screens.”
3) Computers In Schools Are A Failure, Says Computer Pioneer Alan Kay [Apple in Educ]
Kay says the education system has squandered 30 years of technology in classrooms. He likens the modern factory educatory system to a monkey with a microscope. The monkey looks at its reflection in the microscope’s barrel but doesn’t look through the eyepiece — it utterly misses the point.
4) Project Red: Do 1:1 right or don't do it at all ZDNet Education
Last month, Project Red, an initiative to “Revolutionize Education” through technology, released findings on the utility and factors for success in 1:1 computing. Their research, which spanned almost 1000 schools using a comprehensive survey instrument over the 2009-2010 school year suggested that, when done correctly, 1:1 computing can have measurable and significant impacts on teaching and learning. When done poorly, 1:1 is just an added cost without any added educational value.
5) The Secret To Getting Every Student Excited About Writing Tech&Learning
“A lot of student writing is of little interest to anyone beyond the teacher.”
Main Topic: College Admission: 2010: Part I (through submitting applications)
Guests Ellen Masten and Michele Radcliffe
Questions on our minds:
Tim's Tech Tidbit:
Facebook Connect (and what you give away by using it)
Facebook Developer Documentation
Endorsements:
Cammy: VoiceThread - a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways
Kevin: 20 Things I learned about Browsers and the Web by Google: http://www.20thingsilearned.com/
Tim: My endorsement is the same as Kevin’s!
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News of the Week:
1) Thomas Friedman’s “Teaching For America” Op-Ed piece in Sunday’s NYT
Honoring teachers as professionals, preparing & compensating them accordingly; role of parents - The more we demand from teachers the more we have to demand from students and parents.
2) Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction NYTimes Magazine
“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
Allison Miller, 14, sends and receives 27,000 texts in a month, her fingers clicking at a blistering pace as she carries on as many as seven text conversations at a time. She texts between classes, at the moment soccer practice ends, while being driven to and from school
“The headline is: bring back boredom,” added Dr. Rich, who last month gave a speech to the American Academy of Pediatrics entitled, “Finding Huck Finn: Reclaiming Childhood from the River of Electronic Screens.”
3) Computers In Schools Are A Failure, Says Computer Pioneer Alan Kay [Apple in Educ]
Kay says the education system has squandered 30 years of technology in classrooms. He likens the modern factory educatory system to a monkey with a microscope. The monkey looks at its reflection in the microscope’s barrel but doesn’t look through the eyepiece — it utterly misses the point.
4) Project Red: Do 1:1 right or don't do it at all ZDNet Education
Last month, Project Red, an initiative to “Revolutionize Education” through technology, released findings on the utility and factors for success in 1:1 computing. Their research, which spanned almost 1000 schools using a comprehensive survey instrument over the 2009-2010 school year suggested that, when done correctly, 1:1 computing can have measurable and significant impacts on teaching and learning. When done poorly, 1:1 is just an added cost without any added educational value.
5) The Secret To Getting Every Student Excited About Writing Tech&Learning
“A lot of student writing is of little interest to anyone beyond the teacher.”
Main Topic: College Admission: 2010: Part I (through submitting applications)
Guests Ellen Masten and Michele Radcliffe
Questions on our minds:
Tim's Tech Tidbit:
Facebook Connect (and what you give away by using it)
Facebook Developer Documentation
Endorsements:
Cammy: VoiceThread - a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways
Kevin: 20 Things I learned about Browsers and the Web by Google: http://www.20thingsilearned.com/
Tim: My endorsement is the same as Kevin’s!
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