Posted in Lessons Learned, technology on Sep 27th, 2008 12 Comments »
Earlier this month I wrote a post here critical of having students use cellphones in the classroom and shared why we banned their used during the school-day at my inner-city school.
In that same post I just briefly mentioned that this year we also banned iPods from the school, though I didn’t go into the reasons [...]
Posted in Policy on Sep 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Ten years ago my school district identified twenty elementary schools, out of about 130, as needing extra support. These schools were identified based on more than just test scores, although that was one factor. They looked at high rates of students living in poverty, large percentages of second language learners, and schools with high mobility [...]
Posted in technology on Sep 14th, 2008 13 Comments »
Blogger Gary Stager is never afraid to speak his mind, and often provides a lot of food for thought. I’m a regular reader.
Sometimes, though, as all iconoclasts do, I think he goes a bit too far. His critique of VoiceThread was one of those times, and his just-published post that begins “Brainpop gives me [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 on Sep 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Larry Ferlazzo recently wrote here about Cellphones In Class and expressed skepticism about including this technology in an his particular education setting. Just to give some background, some of those headlines about cell phones being used to phone in fights, could have come from Larry’s school site a few years back (I know because I [...]
Posted in technology on Sep 5th, 2008 12 Comments »
Alice Mercer and I have recently had a couple of discussions about the use of cellphones in the classroom, and there have been a number of other recent blog posts about it — including in Darren Draper’s fine blog.
However, I’m still not convinced cellphone use in the classroom is generally a good idea.
I think having [...]
