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Schools and Tech #22: Tech Integration vs. Education Reform

Schools and Tech #22: Tech Integration vs. Education Reform

Update: 2010-08-31
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News of the Week:
 
1) Later school start times and Zzzs to A's
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that growing bodies benefit from more sleep. When districts push back the start of the school day, good things happen. KB

2) TeacherMate - http://www.innovationsforlearning.org/about_teachermate.php  RL

3) Monterey College of Law Pilots iPad Programs for Students and Faculty As the centerpiece of a new mobile computing initiative, Monterey College of Law in California is distributing Apple iPads to all students enrolled in a supplemental curriculum program that helps them prepare for the state's bar exam. All entering first-year students signed up for the program within the first week, as did 70 percent of the remainder of the student body. CT

4) Oregon State Physics  Class Experiments in Space Design Oregon State University is trying out a new type of classroom for its introductory physics courses, which typically have 75 to 100 students. The space, introduced in spring 2010, replaces rows of desks with round tables and covers the walls with giant interactive whiteboards. CT

5) A triple short shot of news from today’s SJMerc. Bay Area virtual school for at risk, L A Teacher Assessment, FB.  CT


(Related note - “A decade later, Pa. cyber schools go viral” - but the state's 11 digital academies have mostly failed to meet state testing standards. http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_15924871?source=rss )


6) Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary


By SYLVIA HUI, The Associated Press, Sunday, August 29, 2010; 6:43 PM
LONDON -- It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed on paper at all. KB

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Schools and Tech #22: Tech Integration vs. Education Reform

Schools and Tech #22: Tech Integration vs. Education Reform