This week, I visited Runyon Elementary School and Euclid Middle School to see how they are delpoying nComputing...

Clickers are one of the fastest growing technologies in our schools; they're spreading from primary grades through grade twelve.  We have seen them used to do book reviews, to assess prior learning, to determine prior knowledge, and to have a good, old-fashioned debate.  Yet some folks are still wondering about the value of clickers in the classroom.  My point is this: clickers are as good as the questions they are designed to respond to.  With that in mind, please give use some feedback on how you use, or plan to use, clickers in the classroom.

 

Some resources for your perusal:

 

•         The Ohio State University Technology Enhanced Learning Research Clickers

•         Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach...

Totally unauthorized, this picture might be useful when Karl Fisch runs for office...

At the 2007 CASE Convention last August, Daniel Pink (best-selling author of A Whole New Mind) addressed the membership with his views on the new global economy.

This blog entry is for use during the Learning 2.0 session to be held this Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008...

From a member of ETAC, here is a Washington Post article about placing too much emphasis on technology gizmos... the links inserted remind us to keep focused on the real business at hand.

Providing guidance on what technologies we, in ITS, believe schools should implement is a challenging assignment. Today, we present the "yourIT" magazine linked here...

A new trend is emerging in the laptop market. The UMPC is an "ultra mobile personal computing" is an emerging mindset in computing leading to new products...

Over the past two months, we've been working on updating a strategic work-plan for technology, a visioning document and a new IT guidelines document for the district. Included in this post is an update to the plan and a visioning document shared with our K-12 Principals. The IT guide will be linked later...

At the CASE Winter Leadership conference, both keynote speakers presented view points that underscore the importance of struggle. It drew my attention to grading practices...