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I just read Paul Yip‘s blog post “A Question of Vision” answering a question about how to keep Laptop Carts up and running. Two things struck home for me in Paul’s response. First, the honest conversations about how to use technology in the classroom are not happening enough. And Second, while my school has had…
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is calling for a change in how perspective Teachers are taught in our nation’s schools of education. I am a big fan of change and think it is great that the Secretary is addressing one of the foundations of the American Education System. Not having gone through one of…
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There is on ongoing discussion at my high school about what we should and should not be teaching in our Business Applications classes. The same curriculum has been in place for several years (at least six) and consists of typing, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and very basic computer history, Internet search, hardware and Operating Systems…
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I overheard a University of California professor the other day discussing hiring. He said he would never consider someone that had an online degree for a professor position. His reason was simple, he didn’t think it was a real degree. I found this a bit disheartening since I earned a Master’s degree through an online…
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