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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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I’ll be presenting at a few events between now and the end of the year. In looking at my schedule like this, it’s actually kind of crazy. If you’re attending any of these events and see me walking by with my face in my phone, be sure to stop me and say hi! CapCUE Tech…
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Is it common to do silent reading along with a CDROM in elementary classrooms? Apparently it is something they do in our district (where my daughter is in 3rd grade). I’m wondering how reading along to a CD helps kids read? How is it even considered reading? If they had done this when I was…
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I was recently asked what my AppleID strategy is for teachers and iPads. It’s very simple and it stems from an issue we have, at least in California public schools known as “Gifting” public funds. When iPads first came out, the organization that advises schools on finance matters in California released a scary document that…
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I just spent $6.99 for the FluencyFinder app for my iPad. It was an impulse buy, granted but after having read about it in a blog post, it looked like an app I should be familiar with. But then, I do admit to a compulsive app buying habit dating back to my first iPad when…
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Power went out at the District Office (DO) today at around 5:30pm. The outage affected a large area of our community. With only 25 minutes of backup battery time on our servers, we only had a few minutes to shutdown everything. At least we had that time. No, we don’t have automated shutdown scripts in…
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Found this today while I was doing some folder clean up. To think I used to be responsible for all this big iron, with a duplicate setup for development and staging too. These were the first SQL Clusters, SANs, Load Balancers and PIX firewalls of my very own. Oh, the good old days…
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Have I said this before? Hangouts make hanging out so easy and the ability to record conversations for posterity is awesome! Mike Vollmert and I had a great rambling discussion about the elephant in the room – the need the change Professional Development to meet the changing instructional paradigms in a 1:1 world. We also…
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In a recent post titled, In A Perfect EdTech World, I said I would give every teacher an ubermixed ultrabook. Now people that know me know that I took Le Grand Union High School District teachers from Windows Desktops to MacBook Pros a few years ago and I advocated for MacBooks for every teacher at East Side…
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Sunday I got to hangout with Alice Keeler and talk all things google edtech. Well hangout the way edtech people do when we’re not at ISTE, CUE or an edCamp, virtually on Google Hangout. Here’s the episode. One of these days, I’ll post it to rebootedpodcast.com too.
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Saw this on twitter today – http://www.teachthought.com/learning/21st-century-learning-is-not-a-program/ “Many people tend to associate 21st century learning with digital technology. This is an incomplete perception because 21st century education goes beyond mere trinket tools of the trade. Rather, it is a way of thinking- a rationale about what educators do and why they do it.” And it…
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