Trevor,
At the risk of being off on a tangent, I want to take up broader discussion which you may choose to ignore.
I like all of the ideas you present, but not for the purpose of maintaining student focus. In my mind, education and education res...
Thanks Richard. Yes, we too, have had numerous conversations comparing computer related distractions to the doodling and staring out of the window that we digital immigrants used to fill our school days with. What we are seeing with the tablets se...
Trevor,
We are in the 2nd year of our 1:1 pilot. Last year, 8th grade staff at 2 middle schools were given laptops and PD on 1:1. They developed lessons and learned about student centered pedagogy. Initially the pilot was going to provide laptop c...
If your teachers are already doing all of the things you mention in your question, then it seems to me that that the issue may not be so much one of needing to improve practice, but one of changing teacher expectations.
What do the teachers mean b...
Sounds interesting Mike. Can you give me a little more information about your school and program, and I will see if there are some opportunities here at DE?
We are a PK-12 Independent school located in Bergen County NJ, right outside NYC.
We hav...
The single biggest struggle for teachers in our school is how best to handle the distracting power of computers in kids hands during class. We have been doing this for a while, so yes, we have talked about the importance of designing activities th...
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