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No More Calculus?
Arthur Benjamin says statistics and probability should be the goal of secondary school math.
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Thanks Cassandra, I have been playing phone tag with the Great Source Representative for Math in Focus. Just to get to her number tooks some doing as the web site directed me to a person at Harcourt who explained they were no longer handling Great...
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Hi Sister Elizabeth -
There is a fair amount of info on our website about our 9-yr-old 1:1 laptop program (www.urbanschool.org/laptops). Also our Tech Director Howard Levin has some information on his site (www.howardlevin.com). Sarah is right --...
Math in Focus is based on My Pals Are Here, currently in use in Singapore. Primary Mathematics was based on an older syllabus in Singapore that was used there until 2001 or so. Although the content for Math in Focus is very similar to what is taug...
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I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program.
I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
Hi Sister Elizabeth,
I recently updated my rationale statement for our 1:1 program. While this is much longer than a mission statement, it may be of interest... http://www.battlegroundacademy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=105664 It draws from a few so...
We're planning to offer such a class next year to our 7th-8th graders and are looking into VE software alternatives. We are PC based.
Does anyone have user based comments on Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, or Adobe Elements? Or any other software yo...
I added it again because the video wasn't showing up for everyone--this is a different source, Viddler.
Jim,
Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
A few years ago I created a graphic to represent the "essential objectives" of a MS laptop program. You can see it at
http://www.k12converge.com/?p=201
Jim Heynderickx
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