Ken Burns will be speaking to Team Vista on Monday October 26 via Skype. Mr. Burns has agreed to discuss the process of making a documentary film and will take student questions. This event is part of the kick-off for the Vista video research project.
The following are the general C-Span topics:
“One of the country’s greatest [...]
Thoughts at the beginning of the 2009- 20010 school year
By Rick Davidson
During the past two years, I have done a lot of thinking about the best way to integrate computer technology into all curriculum areas. I have read articles on what 21st century businesses are looking for in employees and and I have talked [...]
Click on this link to check out an interesting article by Stephen Downes. http://www.downes.ca/post/38502
Lauren
Abbey
Tips for Using Blog In The Classroom
“Teachers can make the process of blogging easier for their students by setting an example. If a teacher has a blog, it makes students want to blog, too.” Lauren
Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many
There’s a place for tech in every classroom.
by Edutopia Staff
“Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential [...]
Dangerously Irrelevant
It would be impossible for the information revolution to unfold and NOT have transformative implications for how children can be educated
Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:02 AM PDT
Terry Moe and John Chubb say…
Even today, with educational technology in its earliest stages:
Curricula can be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations [...]
Thoughts at the beginning of the 2009- 20010 school year
By Rick Davidson
During the past two years, I have done a lot of thinking about the best way to integrate computer technology into all curriculum areas. I have read articles on what 21st century businesses are looking for in employees and and I [...]
W]e need to make “The Shift.” The Shift: to classrooms that are not solely teacher-centric, with the teacher as lone disseminator of knowledge and the children in the awe-stricken and lesser role of recipients of the knowledge. The Shift: where the teacher sometimes has the central role when he or she explains [...]
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How important do you think knowing how to use technology will be in your future? Are you good at it now? Explain.
I think it is very important to know technology in the future. I am okay at [...]
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In Search of the Ultimate Computer Technology Integrated Project
by Rick Davidson
How two seasoned teachers created one of the most exciting and effective teaching units of their careers.
I have spent the past 13 years involved with computer technology [...]
