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Move from Director of Technology to Academic Technology Director??
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Trockman Jul. 28, 2008.
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- Drama Teacher, Technology Integration
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- Brattleboro, VT
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Pop in on my new blog, love suggestions.
I started a new blog mostly for my faculty at my school. I would love any and all suggestions or opinions on the apps I am looking at.
Thanks as always.
Jane
http://technojane.blogspot.com/
Thanks as always.
Jane
http://technojane.blogspot.com/
Posted on October 20, 2008 at 2:11pm —
My Blog on Progressive Education...or not
Hello all!
I created a blog to try to get at the meaning of Progressive Education. Any and all thoughts would be most appreciated! Help me not give up Blogging after three posts!
Jane
I created a blog to try to get at the meaning of Progressive Education. Any and all thoughts would be most appreciated! Help me not give up Blogging after three posts!
Jane
Posted on December 12, 2007 at 6:57pm — 15 Comments
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We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft.
One reason we did thi…
A video taken during a recent visit to Singapore ... a Christmas Carol played on an unusual instrument.
Orchard Road with a backdrop of the Christmas lights
Share your work arounds and enhancement requests for Finalsite.
2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
"The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such.
Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools
A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
James,
How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates?
"Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself."
Fred
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my old colleeg friend demitri started this group - cool huh?
hope all is well w you at elm lea!
talk soon JB!
ps; i like you fan club site
One of the challenges of talking about progressive education these days (aside from everyone thinking that it's the same thing as "permissive") is that you really can't avoid talking about PE's heritage in progressive politics. Some folks seem to get very uncomfortable acknowledging that an educational philosophy comes with a political philosophy attached. I don't see how one can avoid acknowledging this, but for some reason, in a very diverse and aggressively multicultural environment, some adults (at our school, at least) suddenly get nervous about about statements of values that seem to have a (lefty) political flavor. Don't really see why we have to welcome homophobia as a point of view in the name of welcoming all points of view in the name of inclusivity, but somehow the paradox here isn't a problem for some folks. (I just think it would be okay to say we're, you know, against it.)
Pedagogically I think that we are in an era of what I would call the New Progressivism, a philosophical epoch built on ideas around assessment, curriculum design, scheduling, multiculturalism, global thinking, sustainability, school structure, etc. that have been given impetus by people like Sizer, Gardner, Delpitt, Wiggins, Meier, Orr, Perkins, Banks, and many more. The real continuity from original progressivism comes in the notion of student-centeredness as well as the "political" idea that the end of education should be a more complete, informed democracy; the "social justice," service learning," "equity pedagogy" pieces of the New Progressivism flow directly out of Dewey in that regard.
Anyhow, cool stuff, and yes I do recall our conversation early in my struggles with the book on teacher hiring and retention.
Cheers!