Teach for America and the Future of Schools. Aren’t we all Teaching for America? By Bonnie Bracey Sutton and Vic Sutton What’s the Problem? Teach For America, the New Kids on the Block Teach for America is an organization you have probably heard about. My experience with them is that in the school of poverty that I worked in, there were so many immigrant kids I would stay to keep the computer lab open until about seven, because I only had 13 computers and we had two kids on a computer … [Read more...]
Broadband (“if we build it, what’s it good for?”)
Broadband ("if we build it, what's it good for?"). I learned about Broadband early during the Clinton administration. I used to talk about it when no one knew what it was. I attended years of meetings and demonstrations as a part of the NIIAC.(National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council). I knew about it before I had access to it. These are notes based on research we did for the NIIAC and which are relevant even today. Most schools in the US have access to the Internet, but may not … [Read more...]
Bridge Day, Teragrid A Special Event for Teachers
Bridge Day, Teragrid A Special Event for Teachers June 26,2009 The secretary of education and the president want transformational learning. We have examples of transformational learning in the high performance computing fields. But a lot of people are still stuck in an analog world as we move into the future of digital. Computational thinking is something that has to be considered. Truthfully we have closed our eyes to new types of learning in many ways through the era of no child left behind … [Read more...]
The State of Education in the Nation
The President's Town Hall Meeting could have been entitled" No Teacher Left Behind" One of the advantages, or disadvantages that I have is that I live in Washington DC. That means that I get to go to the hill and hear the reports , ideas, and the philosophy that the groups say that the president believes in. I have just attended an online Town Hall Meeting at White House.gov. You may want to review this presentation and or listen to the President , in … [Read more...]
Study : Girls Still Not Swarming into Sci-Tech
This is a conversation I often have with others, the question being why don't girls get involved in science, technology , engineering and math. I get a headache every time I see a certain commercial that displays a mother too tired to remember 3 times 4. What? That's a big deal? Then there was the Barbie fiasco. Even this week I have been talking to colleagues about exposing teachers to higher math with certain programs. Problem solving, supercomputing, that kind of thing. Take a look at this … [Read more...]
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