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Personal Laptops in Schools

I anticipate this will become more and more of an issue and am wondering if others have already had to deal with this.

Students and teachers who bring their own laptops or wireless devices will soon be requesting internet and network access at schools. Questions that come to mind are:

What security issues are there?

Can they potentially [...]

It’s Magic

I’ve used this tool before but a couple of days ago, I picked up on an entry by Ewan Mcintosh and passed along his suggestion to our local schools. Here’s how one teacher took the idea and creating something outstanding.

Stop integrating technology

Recently I’ve tried to stop using the “integrating technology” term and simply talk about using it. Jeff over at The Thinking Stick provides a really nice example of this in his latest post, Technology: it’s what we do, not one more thing to do.

We need to get past the point that we need to [...]

Going back to the one room school

Our school division has a mix of small school (K-12 schools under 50 students) and larger schools ( 800 student high school which I realize is small in some circles). I’m realizing the challenges small schools face with multiple grades. Designing instruction for a variety of learners can be a task.

Harold Jarche, via Will Richardson, [...]

Two Cool Things from Tom

I got 2 really cool things from Tom Woodward, the bionic teacher. One that everyone should utilize and the other that falls in my “this is interesting but I’m not sure yet how I’d use it” category.

The first is his remix of the Karl Fischs’ presentation called “Did You Know”. Tom was kind enough [...]