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From SPEAK UP, a national, USA, online research project organized by Project Tomorrow.
For school work, students in grades 6-12 are using technology for these top 5 activities in 2007:
Students:
o Writing assignments (74%)
o Online research (72%)
o Checking assignments or grades online (58%)
o Creating slideshows, videos, webpages for schoolwork (57%)
o Email or IM with classmates about assignments (44%)
Teachers:
What do you do regularly with technology?
o 93% use email to communicate with colleagues or parents – only 34% email with students
o Create a powerpoint presentation – 59%
o Create or listen to podcasts or videos – 35%
o 21% maintain a personal website like MySpace or Facebook
#1 use of technology to facilitate student learning: assigning homework or practice work (51%)
Parents:
What do you do regularly with technology?
o Email my child’s teacher – 91%
o Email, IM or text with my child – 51%
o Download music – 53%
58% say that technology accelerates learning opportunities for their children
School Leaders – Principals and District Administrators
What do you do regularly with technology?
o Email with colleagues or parents – 93%
o Create a powerpoint presentation – 71%
o Participate in online communities – 30%
84% say that their school’s implementation of technology enhances students achievement
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We need to begin seriously considering the migration to some open source applications. It is part of my charge to lead this so lead it I will. I would like to begin by having all of you start getting some experience with Open Office. Find the install in the following directory: M:\Drivers\Open Office. You may add it to your laptop or workstation without fear of interference with Microsoft Office so long as you do not check the boxes when asked to make it the default handler for Microsoft Office files. When you open one on the applications for the first time it with take you through a five step dialog box. There is no need to put in your name or register the product.Here are some of the primary reasons we are considering this and other open source products.
Currency - We are not revision current with office as you all know. We are using Office 2000 while several newer releases have been issued up to the current one of 2007.
Concepts - We believe in teaching concepts not products. Open Office is very similar in how the end user experiences it and though there may be “click here, click there” differences when teaching it, the products and their capabilities are very similar.
Cost - Open Office is free. Microsoft Office is expensive. We have a responsibility to investigate it as it could save the district and provide the opportunity to push future resources into other tech avenues.
This is the beginning everything is up for discussion. I will likely be adding more collages to the group/discussion. If you have suggestion on who some of them may need to be I would like to hear it. I am going setup a sit down meeting in the near future.
Matt
Reconsidering how to cultivate skills in U.S. citizens to meet the demands of the global citizenry by Yong Zhao who is director of the U.S.- China Center for Research on Educational Excellence at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. Check it out - > http://www.aasa.org/publications/saarticledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=9737 Keep developing those right-brain skills, now where did I put my guitar?
The MIT OpenCourseWare initiative has repackaged many of its materials for secondary teachers and students. The Highlights for High School web site includes more than 2,600 video and audio clips as well as assignments and lecture notes. Read more at Education Week about this new resource.
Check out the areas of AP biology, AP Physics, and AP Calculus…
Goto http://www.monashores.net/resources/tchr/techintegration/classintegration/ to view Mona Shores teacher technology standards.
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