It’s Not Going Away So You’re Going To Have To Deal With It

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Over A Fourth Of The Chinese Have Cell Phones

A New York Times report today here describes the use of cellphones and the internet to stimulate protests. The article includes these facts and a comment speculating on future protests:

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Spellings: States Will Have to Follow Uniform Graduation-Rate Formula

Washington

The Bush administration will propose rules requiring states to use a uniform graduation rate and publish data on the graduation rates of students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic categories, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said today.

“I will take administrative steps to ensure that all states use the same formula to calculate how many students graduate from high school on time,” Ms. Spellings said in a speech today at an event organized by the America’s Promise Alliance. “In addition, we will make this data public so that people nationwide can compare how students of every race, background, and income level are performing.”

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Have three hours?

If you have a few extra hours, I recommend you explore these three technology learning related podcasts:

Gardner Campbell: Computers as poetry - a beautiful presentation of how the metaphors of poetry can inform technology use. See also his article on My Computer Romance.

Brain Lamb: Mashups Un-Artist (links to audio file) - This was a presentation Brian delivered in Second Life...I didn't see the session, but from listening to the audio, I got a sense of Brian Lamb as Bob Geldof in The Wall.

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Student perspective - all you have to do is ask

Ryan Bretag:

The last two weeks, I had the opportunity to begin involving students in these discussions: How do they feel about the infusion of technology into the classroom? What do they know about all of these “emerging technologies”? What should the learning environment look like in the future? Why do they feel, if at all, technology is of value to their own learning? What is the connection between their current use of technology and the technology educational technologist long to see used in the classroom?

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…But … But When My Teaching Duties Subside … That’s When I HAVE Time To Be Networked!

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Have a Learning Adventure This Summer!

Convincing announced, a amazing thrill up-to-date computers with erudition concerning educators this summer - the Constructing Virgin Practice Institution. I’m clamorous to exist participating modern this event.

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?In class you have to power down?

With thanks to All Briggs, whose comment is the first one in the previous post, here is the full quote from the Gardian:

“Whenever I go into class, I have to power down.” . . . “At school, you do all this boring stuff, really basic stuff, PowerPoint and spreadsheets and things. It only gets interesting and exciting when you come home and really use your computer. You’re free, you’re in control, it’s your own world.”

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WSJ: How do you communicate with students who have grown up with technology?

In today’s Wall Street Journal, reporter Kevin Delaney asks the question and answers it with blogs, wikis, RSS and the like.

Pioneering teachers are getting their classes to post writing assignments online so other students can easily read and critique them. They’re letting kids practice foreign languages in electronic forums instead of pen-and-paper journals. They’re passing out PDAs to use in scientific experiments and infrared gadgets that let students answer questions in class with the touch of a button. And in the process, the educators are beginning to interact with students, parents and each other in ways they never have before.

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Have You Used Every Tool In Your Toolbox? Did You Throw Away Those You Haven?t Used Yet?

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