Monday, February 16, 2009

Web 2.0 Assignment

Please comment to this post with the url of your personal blog.Gabcast! This is a test #0

Monday, February 9, 2009

Backup Education

Read the Marc Prensky article, "Backup Education."

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-Backup_Education-EdTech-1-08.pdf

Answer the following question:

What research (include APA citations) could you share with current teachers that validates the article titled "Backup Education"? Why might some teachers be reluctant to change in spite of their knowledge of 21st century learners?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

NETS-Student Standards

Over which "Conditions" do you as a classroom educator have control? How do these conditions relate to the NETS-Teacher standards?

OK, Here's a hard one:

You're a 5th grade classroom teacher in Tennessee. You have to prepare students for federally mandated assessment (TCAPs) and the Tennessee Writing Assessment. Technology Standards are not tested standards. How do you include the NETS-S standards to ensure your students' technology growth is on track AND make sure your students still learn math, science, social studies, language arts, and reading?