Technology

We are conducting technology professional development a little differently at our school this year. A few years back we borrowed the idea of “Tech in 20″ sessions, small, 20 minute professional development sessions that hit upon concrete, real hands on resources that teachers can use right after they leave. Our Director of Academic Technology, David [...]

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Below is a recap of some of the more interesting stories about education, technology, leadership and creativity floating out in the blogosphere. Enjoy!
Civil Rights in the Digital Era
Yesterday, the Wired Campus, a regular education-technology feature at The Chronicle of Higher Ed, featured a short article by Josh Fischman called, “The Civil-Rights Era, Now on the [...]

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I use StumbleUpon to channel surf the web and I came across a great website that I think has enormous potential for educators. It is also mildly addictive. It’s called Go2Web2.0 and it has collected a directory of over 2400 web 2.0 applications since 2006. Below is a description from the website About page.

About Go2Web20.net
Pure [...]

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I am hoping to provide a weekly digest of interesting stories in the news that deal with education, teaching, leadership and technology. Enjoy!
Noneducation Majors Find Teaching Appealing
RedOrbit, TX - May 16, 2008
Recruits often have no prior education experience or course work. They get five weeks of intensive training the summer before they start teaching, [...]

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Today I received in the mail, my copy of the Harvard Education Letter, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The cover article focuses on how “despite the challenges” more schools are adopting one-to-one laptop programs. The article goes on to say that over the last several years, many schools across the United States [...]

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We go on our winter break next week and yet, I must admit that I am looking forward to small brainstorming session that a few of us have planned for Monday afternoon. The “pow wow” was brought on by a discussion at lunch the other day regarding the educational value of Second Life. For those [...]

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When I was hired as the CIO at Worcester Academy in 2002 the school had just purchased its first SmartBoard. When asked about how much use and demand the board had, I was surprised to find out that in fact, there was very little interest in the technology. Mind you, that at this time, Apple’s [...]

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The technology landscape keeps changing and anyone working in schools over the past several years can tell you that. When I was hired as the CIO at my current school in 2002, using terms like podcasting, blogging and wikis were words very few faculty members would have recognized. Six years later, many of Worcester Academy’s [...]

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Great post over at Leader Talk about the pros and cons of technology in schools.

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