Charles Sosnik | 08/26/2009

I may be showing my age a bit, but in my day Education Technology was an oxymoron. Even though I didn’t have to walk 6 miles to school — barefoot — in the snow everyday like my sister, it was still a different era. I do remember someone bringing a “portable calculator” to Mr. Wilson’s 8th grade class. It weighed 4 pounds and couldn’t even do square roots. Read More...

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Maggie Martin Connell | 08/26/2009

Where would you be without 3? China maybe! All cultures have specific marks and words we use to communicate a distinct idea related to quantity — ‘three-ness’. The special word and mark we assign to that idea distinguishes it from other ideas, like ‘two-ness,’or ‘four-ness’ or any other ‘ness’. But the mark is not the idea itself any more than a map of a territory is the territory itself. And therein lies the problem at the very heart of our modern math woes. Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 08/26/2009

No Child Left Behind has placed a great deal of pressure on schools and school districts to lower dropout rates, increase their school graduation rate and narrow the achievement gap. In addition most states have raised their educational standards in order to become more globally competitive. The Gates Foundation has called the crisis, The Silent Epidemic. And it is. Every school day 171 school buses loaded with children leave school never to return. That is our daily school dropout rate. Read More...

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Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. | 08/26/2009

Got problem students? Here’s immediate, problem-stopping help. You’re reading SEEN Magazine’s newest column. This is your new place to turn for the best, most innovative solutions for your worst K-12 classroom management problems. Even better, each column will include at least one completely free printable worksheet or device that you can use right away to stop or prevent classroom discipline and behavior problems. Read More...

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| 09/03/2009

SM: In this issue of SEEN Magazine, we are focusing on Technology. In your opinion, how important is technology to today’s educators? Why? Governor Perdue: Technology is fundamentally important to both our educators and students. It is the chalk and blackboard of the 21st century. Computers, the internet, online libraries and encyclopedias – they offer today’s teachers access to a broader range of knowledge and resources than ever before. If we want our children to compete with the world’s best and brightest, we simply must arm our teachers with the high tech tools they need to bring the world into the classroom. Read More...

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PETER ROBERTSON | 09/03/2009

The American vision of school is still rooted in what Horace Mann called the “common schools” of the 19th century. Schools mutated into the universal sorting system (“time is fixed, results vary” ) that served our industrial economy in the 20th century. But technology and the global knowledge economy require us – and empower us – to reconceive schools today as institutions that can prepare all students to succeed in a rigorous curriculum through a personalized experience. The principles laid out here are fairly basic, but their application can get quite complex. As you think through how these apply to your situation, stay focused on your goa... Read More...

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ANN FLYNN, ED.D. | 09/03/2009

If you can imagine an intricately designed piece of fabric with a metallic thread running across the complex pattern, then you should be able to visualize how modern technology has become an essential part of school district operations. Today, technology has literally become that essential thread woven throughout all aspects of a district’s operations. Most district activities can be placed into one of three broad categories – teaching and learning; administrative; and communications. While there are certainly overlapping tasks among these areas, it is a useful way to think about the various places technology intersects with the functional a... Read More...

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KATHERINE HAYDEN, ED.D. | 09/03/2009

In the past two decades, there have been sweeping changes in the use of technology as a means of course delivery in colleges and universities. Whole programs of study are now offered entirely online. It has been difficult for much of the professoriate to accept or stay up with rapidly developing changes in teaching and learning with technology. Social and educational demands are prompting institutions to provide students with e-learning opportunities. Read More...

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