February 2012
6 posts
Auburn School Department - Latest News →
“During the Fall of 2011, the district provided iPads to half of Auburn’s sixteen kindergarten classrooms. The remaining eight classes used traditional resources. The eight iPad classes were selected at random to provide a better examination of the short term literacy impacts. Auburn kindergartners from both settings completed a series of standardized literacy assessments in early ...
300 Years of Distance Learning [Infographic] |... →
“With the rapid advancement of the Internet, distance learning is becoming more popular, and more accessible, than ever. Even big-name institutions like Harvard are increasing their offerings of online-only instruction.
Distance learning has been around for at least three centuries, as this infographic suggests, from humble beginnings to its modern delivery today.”
Why Common Core standards will fail - The... →
“Our way of thinking about standards has always been wrong, Loveless says. We speak of them as a system of weights and measure, as benchmarks to which schools must adhere. But that’s not it. “Standards in education are best understood as aspirational,” Loveless wrote, ‘and like a strict diet or prudent plan to save money for the future, they represent good intentions that are not often...
Hurdles Remain Before College Classrooms Go... →
“Career academics are not, however, the only ones to blame. A lot of students come to college with backward views of what social media is and what it can accomplish. And most importantly, what is and isn’t acceptable on social media.
And why shouldn’t they? They come from schools where teachers can be reprimanded or even fired for connecting with students on social networks....
Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success... →
“There’s a tendency in teaching to try to control things, like a parent,” said Scott Allen, a high school chemistry teacher in South Granville, N.C. “But I learn best at my own pace, and you have to realize that students learn best at their own pace, too.”
Editorial: Lessons learned -- Laptops in lower... →
“Last year, one of the schools, Melrose Magnet in Los Angeles, saw its Academic Performance Index (API) scores rise an impressive 124 points, to 879. (The highest score of any school in L.A. County last year was 993 at Gretchen Whitney High School in Cerritos.) The elementary school’s Principal Bernadette Lucas attributes Melrose’s rise to the technology program.”