An SOL social studies test might ask students when and where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, said Patrick Russo, superintendent of Henrico schools. But he said students would learn more by debating the possible reasons he was killed.
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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar
Every Google Calendar has its own personal appointments sign up page; you can embed it on your website or give the URL directly to friends and clients. You can find the URL for your appointment page at the top of the set-up page, which you can access via the Edit details link.
YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
Here is a group of innovative educators who went the extra mile in applying for the 2011 Microsoft Innovative Education Forum (IEF). This was not a requirement to apply, but these educators each created a video to describe their projects and now it is your chance to help them. The top two videos that receive the most “Likes” will automatically be invited to the IEF this summer at Microsoft’s worldwide headquarters in Redmond. Take a look, you decide, and offer them an encouraging comment as well! Voting ends June 1st.
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they’re from the Future | Crack Two
AFP: iPads replacing note pads as Asian schools go high-tech
–hilarious, don’t do that before hand . . .
“But after one month when the novelty of iPads wears down, a good curriculum and teaching materials that can increase deep thinking and problem solving in students need to be in place.”
Visualizing 19th c. New York
Visualizing New York is about how a new visual order emerged in nineteenth century New York. The city took center stage as a site of visual production and as the nation’s central sight. While many marveled at the metropolis’ phenomenal growth, the city’s perceptual confusion also caught the attention of visitors and residents alike. This collaborative exhibit of the Bard Graduate Center and the New York Public Library attempts to make sense of that experience.
Minot Google Days 2011
Department of Education cancels $43 million contract with firm under investigation
For more than a year, a Daily News investigation has questioned how FTA, a firm with no track record and whose headquarters is a mail drop in Jacksonville, managed to land nearly $100 million in school contracts, many of them without competitive bidding.
The News found that Sevintuna and Krohe were secretly subcontracting work to companies in Turkey and India. Turkish records that the paper obtained show they paid programmers in that country no more than $3,400 a month through a subsidiary they owned there. Then they charged the education department as much as $22,000 a month for each of those workers.
Under the company’s current contract, taxpayers have been shelling out an average of nearly $200,000 annually for each of up to 50 FTA consultants.
Technology Integration Matrix
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.
Hechinger Report | Q&A with Mimi Ito: Facebook’s educational potential
The Hechinger Report: Are you studying how to develop a program that would capitalize on kids’ affinity for social networks and become a formal part of a school’s curriculum?
Ito: There is work in Chicago that’s one model of this. Nichole Pinkard started with an after-school media production program that linked to school-based curriculum so kids could do digital media production for their school assignments. There are a lot of different ways you could link the in-school and out-of-school environments and have a wider range of expressive possibilities. Having after-school mentors in touch with teachers to coordinate those kinds of activities is one example.