Bans Stifle Social Media’s Potential 3/2/2009 - NSTA Reports—Lynn Petrinjak Are you LinkedIn? Do your students Tweet during a field trip? If you’re like many NSTA members, the answer is “yes” with a caveat: Not in school. Preliminary results of a recent online survey of NSTA members show more than half use social media websites at school for professional development and to obtain classroom resources. However, more than 80% of respondents said their schools block internet … [Read more...]
The Disappearing Teacher Population.. Who , what , how, why and when!!
From USA Today, Thursday, October 23, 2008. See In inner city schools of America, Chancellors are holding vintage teachers hostage. Joel Kline said on a press conference regarding high schools that the pensions and pay for retired teachers was holding the school systems hostage. Is he kidding me and you? AIG and the Wall Street buyouts and they blame teachers for the woes of education, the funding shortage the lack of money. I always check out the ballparks in a place that has a problem with … [Read more...]
Will We Rise to the Challenge of Preparing All Teachers for STEM?
A new report issued this week by the State Educational If you look back over the history of this blog, you will know that I have been championing the teaching of science, math, technology, and engineering for a long time. The uses of technology have extended the reach of those of us who teach. Lately there have been a number of reports that point to our failings.. in preparing inservice teachers and preservice teachers for the future. Sadly in some urban centers teachers are being pushed out of … [Read more...]
Teachers to blame? I don’t think so.. Look more closely at the “politics “of Education
Whose to Blame for Poor Urban Schools? Look more closely at the politics of schools to find out. I am losing a lot of my educational friends lately or at least we are sparring on line. Like the press, they look at the older teachers of America and say, that the problems in education are the fault of the older, teachers the digital immigrants. Well, is it really? When I question people about what happens in K-12 they rest the problem squarely on the shoulders of the K-12 teachers. Why is … [Read more...]
The Digital Divide/Digital Equity
The Digital Divide Bonnie Bracey Sutton How do we raise public awareness of the digital divide problem? The broadband dilemma? It is a real problem !! The global situation? There are have and have-nots in global, national and local situations. What solutions are there? What are the problems? Dr. Paul Resta and others eloquently expressed these ideas in our Digital Equity Symposium in San Antonio at the NECC Conference. Dr. Resta spoke of the knowledge divide, the digital divide, the … [Read more...]