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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008In McDowell County we are currently going about the business of crafting our latest technology plan. Our quest is to make sure all teachers and students in McDowell County have access to the best learning tools, learning portals, and professional training in the world at all times. This is not mission impossible. [...]
Asia Society - North Carolina Strengths and Challenges
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Thoughts on North Carolina strengths and challenges - group meeting with large North Carolina delegation of approx 41 individuals who attended the innaugural Asia Society - Putting the World in World-Class Education conference.
Strengths:
VIF has a template for internationalizing your school.
Onslow County Schools began a Latin Immersion program about four years ago. Begins with an intense [...]
Asia Society - ZON and PANWAPA
Friday, July 11th, 2008This session showcased two new global and game-based learning opportunities for elementary students…
The Confucious Institute at Michigan State University has created a video game simulation to help students learn Chinese. The game is called ZON.
You advance in wealth in the game through acquisition of language skills.
45% of 10 year olds in the U.S. own [...]
Asia Society - Internationalizing STEM
Friday, July 11th, 2008Live blogged…
Presentation by Cindy Moss, Ph.D., Director of Science and Math, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System.
By 2012, 90% of the world’s scientists and engineers will live and work in Asia. (NSF Indicators 2008)
U.S. was near the bottom of OECD countries in PISA scores in all categories in 2003.
Using global problems makes science and math relevant…
Examples: Environmental [...]
Asia Society - Simulations Bring Diplomacy to Life
Friday, July 11th, 2008Stepping into the role of a diplomat…
This is the first Asia Society - Putting the World in World-Class Education Conference. This session focused on globablizing content and curriculum through simulations.
Through assuming the role of an international diplomat students learn the art of negotiation while garnering an understanding of their global environment.
CHOICES Education Program - [...]
NECC 2008 One-to-One Seamless Integration
Monday, June 30th, 2008Live blogged…
Howard Levin, from The Urban School of San Francisco, is doing a wonderful job showing practical benefits of 1:1. He is currently explaining how students are now working on their lab reports after hours and their lab reports are so much better and deeper because of all the tools they have at their disposal.
Howard [...]
NECC 2008 Web 2 Smackdown
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Here are the tools explained during the smackdown at Edubloggercon 2008…
1. www.polleverywhere.com use cell phones to create a student response system for free using SMS text messaging. Carrier charges apply.
2. www.chacha.com - call ChaCha and ask a question and ChaCha will text message back an answer in anywhere from 20 seconds to 5 minutes. No [...]
NECC 2008 - Moodle and More
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Spending morning in Moodle and More workshop. Presenter’s Carmalita Bieniek and Jeanne Myers from NYC are modeling embedding video in Moodle to make the course more appealing to visual learners. One of the course topics was called A Vision. Here is the YouTube video they used to begin that course topic/forum/chat in the Moodle course.
Youtube [...]
NECC 2008 Bound to be Creative
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Preparing to depart for NECC in San Antonio…
I’m remembering back to last year’s conference in Atlanta where the overriding theme was creativity. One year later I’m wondering what progress we have made in fostering creativity in our students. It certainly is an uphill battle. Inserting creativity is common place in the lower primary grades, but begins to fade away [...]
Favorite Tidbit from NCaect 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008My favorite tidbit from NCaect 2008 supporting the need for transformational change in education came from slides 26-28 of the Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach presentation below.
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