May 23, 2007
I really need to go through my files and see what I can upload to the handouts page. I know I’ve come up with some things I haven’t added.
I have now gone to Curriculum Nights for three children and participated in my own, so perhaps my evenings will once again return to some semblance of normal. My middle daughter’s teacher has an interactive white board like I do, and it was interesting to see the parents’ reactions on both nights — so similar. Well, they are pretty cool. My students have been enjoying getting a turn correcting sentences with errors as a warm-up on the SMART Board, and when it gets out of alignment (which is an issue with my projector, not my SMART Board), they think it’s really fun to align it properly.
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May 23, 2007
When I read the vision excerpted below I was reminded of the day in 2001 that I first heard of the MIT vision to open their courseware online. These are BIG IDEAS and predict real change. I recommend to you the several pages at ACU in which they set out their rationale and sketch their plans. This is their introduction:
As a university, ACU has invested much energy considering emerging trends in education. We’ve done this because our ongoing goal to help prepare our students to be critical thinkers, knowledgeable professionals, and responsible citizens calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom - even a reevaluation of what constitutes the classroom itself.
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