technology
Paragraph Six - Testing - Do Not Disturb
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race,” exclaims Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In my last blog, I suggested we let the question, “What is school?” guide us through the next decade. Following my own suggestion, ready to define the nature of education at every pass, I sallied forth to encounter for the umpteenth time the...
Paragraph Six - On Questions that Shouldn't be Answered
I ran out of space in my last post (last of the decade!) as I was turning to Neil Postman for perspective on the problem of questions that can’t be answered. His book The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School actually offers perspective on both questions that can and should be answered and those that can’t and shouldn’t. In the first category, he told the story of Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of a monumental two-volume study of the printing press as an agent of cultural change. After a speech, a member of her audience asked how she...
Paragraph Six - Beliefs Cont'd
In the ramblin’ spirit of Paragraph Six, I’m giving myself permission to postpone the post on pi yet again, and go further along the tangent of pedagogical belief. Call it a “dynamic digression” (a handy euphemism I picked up from the world of lit crit.) Sometimes stories demand to be told, and this is one of them, on the theme of belief.
Maximizing School Technology Investments through Sustained Professional Development
Over the past few decades, schools across the country have invested heavily in building their technology infrastructure, ranging from broadband connections and connected computer labs to 1:1 computing initiatives and interactive white boards in every classroom. But are our educators effectively leveraging these hefty technology investments to improve teaching and learning? As we travel from district to district, partnering with PreK-12 schools across the country, we are finding that many of our instructional leaders and classroom teachers are not...
Chancellor Klein Stopped by and Shared His Vision for the Future of Education
Last Saturday we at AUSSIE had the honor of being addressed by the New York City Chancellor of Education, Joel Klein, at the launch of our new school year.
Chancellor Klein spoke highly of our work and commended our commitment to student achievement and accountability. His personal, ongoing commitment to improving the quality of education for all students is driven by his...
Leadership Day
A few weeks ago, I received a very nice email from an administrator who attended my "Building 21st Century Learning Communities" workshop on July 9th. The email read:
"Daniel, Yesterday's workshop was eye opening, exciting, wowing and indicative of the potential that can be accessed. During the 1st week in August, we are going to be in school preparing for...
The 21st Century School
- From Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:00am (EDT) To Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:00pm (EDT)
- $150.00
- One New York Plaza, 31st Floor, 1 Water Street, New York, NY, 10004, United States ; See map: Google Maps
THE 21st CENTURY SCHOOL
How do you prepare young people for success in a global, technology-infused 21st century workplace? A key component is the use of educational technology as a means to facilitate new ways of teaching, learning, and communicating across your learning community.
During this session, participants will explore:
Honing Media Literacy Skills Via Project-Based Learning
- From Thu, 04/29/2010 - 9:00am (EDT) To Thu, 04/29/2010 - 3:00pm (EDT)
- $150.00
- One New York Plaza, 31st Floor, 1 Water Street, New York, NY, 10004, United States ; See map: Google Maps
HONING MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS VIA PROJECT-BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES
How do we prepare students to thrive in a media saturated world? Media literacy provides a framework to access, analyze,
evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet.
During this hands-on workshop participants will explore: